OUR BYE-LAWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 38, 10 June 1896, Page 3

OUR BYE-LAWS.

To THE EI>ITOR.]

Siit, -Permit me through your vainable paper to pass a few remarks concerning our poundage laws, wiiii.ii all will agree with me are working most unsatisfactorily. In the first place, I tlii?jk it a scandalous shame to drag anyone into Court (more especially women) for what, in the majority of case-, they could not prevent. Is it not enough to be obliged to pay —and sometimes heavily too—to redeem the cattle, without being placed in so unpleasant a position '■ If it is distasteful to a man, how much more so is it to a woman '? I do not know who is responsible for such unmanlv conduct. Whoever it may be let him ask himself how he would like to have his wife hauled before the S.M. for no other reason but that an official "Will o' the Y\ hisp ' has by some means or other—llo matter how —got possession of her cow '? Would he not proclaim it a scandal ? Is not one respectable person as good as another, and as deserving of respect'? It is time something was don*' to put a stop to this sort of thing. Every person who has any stock is in constant dread of him whom our City Fatherhave dressed in authority. The}' should be congratulated, however, on lie- e >nent of the present system they have secured, for he well deserves the title of '* The (loblin Pounder." I am. Are., 1 'ISOUSTKK. Hastings, June 0, l-^U;.