"All Roads Lead to Palmerston"?

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 28 March 1908, Page 2

"All Roads Lead to Palmerston"?

Tuuk to its Yes-No policy, tho Manawatu Times this morning denies our charge that it holds a brief for the Railway Department in the matter of Feilding and the Main Trunk train. Tho editor, who gets busy once a week as " Tho "Watchman " (what of tho weak?), says tiiis morning: " I want to sco Feilding get its express stop if possible, but I want to sco it fully seized of its ease before it enters \ipon it. You are not going to win a forensic victory by stopping your ears with cotton wool when argument begins. Our Feilding friends require to know just what they aro up against. It is not sufficient to say that this place or that place can be served from Feilding. It might be retorted by tho Department that it can also bo served from Palmerston. Nor is it sufficient to accuse the Department of not treating Feilding on its merits. There is one principle to he adopted by the railway folk — tho principle of the express running with infrequent stops, at certain intervals." Tho Times offers a gratuitous insult to the business men of Feilding when, in its overweening conceit in itself, it suggests that they don't know what they are lip against. It is plain that Feilding and its best interests aro up against the Times. Feilding has a good claim for a stopping-place, despite the self-confessed ignorance of the Times, and if that journal, which claims to have an ' interest in the town, could not go all the way with our business men, tho least it could have done was to have kept silent. But, how c;ui a prosperous rival town like Feilding expect fair treatment from a journal whose writ-large motto is : " All Roads Lead to Palmerston" ! There is a moral for our business nipn in this precept and example.