REPLY TO “FARMERS’ ADVOCATE.”
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I regret that I am so late in replying to “Farmers’ Advocate’s” letter in your issue of Ist March. But owing to a mistake in your office, I have only just seen his letter. It is, however, almost entirely a laudation of himself, an electioneering address, in fact, and no attempt has been made to reply in detail to my three objections to the policy he favours. May I ask him to keep to the point, and avoiding irrelevant issues, show that I am wrong; show that the principle he advocates respecting one form of property will not be, in fact is not being, extended to all other forms. That allowing some to reap where others have sown is just, and calculated to raise the self-respect and character of our fellow countrymen. His simile of the Lion and Jackals is more apt than he appears to imagine. Let me in conclusion point out that arrogance, selfishness, vanity and pettiness are as unbecoming to a land agent as to a land owner. — I am, etc., JUSTICE.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 72, 7 March 1911, Page 8
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183REPLY TO “FARMERS’ ADVOCATE.” Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 72, 7 March 1911, Page 8
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