ON POLITICS IN GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1433, 23 September 1886, Page 2

ON POLITICS IN GENERAL.

To the Editor of the Star. Sir, — It's with feelings of deep emotion that I would ask you to faTor me with a few lines on the above subject, in order to open the eyes of the public on politics in general. To begin. Take our bead Governor : what good is be to the colony p He is not a bit of good to me nor anyone else in particular. Everybody has got to keep him ; he don, t come nigh these parts of late. I'll be bound be lias part of his salary out of Taranaki and Hawera, as well as anywhere else. I bear so little of him of late, I thought he had gone home. I bear that our town and Taranaki members are going back to Parliament shortly. All I would say is that they had better stay at home, the whole boiling lot of 'em, for all the good they have done us in the past. Its not the working man's interest they have been studying. Bad cess to them ! it's their own pockets, and have been fur years, full well I know it, so I do. It's working men members we want in the house, to be sure, not so many lawyers, drat them ! they are no use to any of us, nor never were. The former, lam sure, would work for our interests. Oh foolish electors ! these lawyers are the men you put in to study your welfare! They have done a lot for you, I know, and will do a lot more, no doubt. What I complain about so much is the bad times we be baring of lake. A working man can scarcely lire now-a-daya. Everybody's complaining about earning money, go wbererer you will, and so will it be as long aa we have such men as Colonel

Trimble to look after us. I can't make out what the colony is coming to. Our Government men have scarcely done a hand's turn to relieve the depression for the last seven years, to my own knowledge. It's no wonder, then, the people are getting sick of our grand men sitting so snag in Parliament year after year pretending to govern us, while they have been having fine times of it of late eating and drinking at the public's expense. Every whip and turn they been adjourning for dinners, so I see by the papers. They must be very fond of pumkin pie, no doubt. Such men were going to do wonders for- us, to hear them - gabble at tbe last election. I am a working man, " Old Jim," and have been bo for years. I want to see working men fully employed, and farmers cultivating the land, and everybody able to get a living that work here. We are all of us living from hand to mouth, without any hope of things getting better. The Government should be ashamed of the people that are thrown out of work by their governing tbe colony. I hear it was said by the Premier tbat more men were out of work in Sydney than in the whole of this colony. That's nothing to do with it at all. Why don't our members govern ns and the country as they ought P They are, to be sure, well paid for it. What do we care about the Sydney unemployed; we want to look after ourselves. Look at homo first. We can't help them, as I know we have quite enough to do to look after ouraelvea. Even at Nelson, I hear, the people are about to sound the loud timbel, for married people are walking about with nothing to do nor anything to keep their families on. I think, sir, we want yearly parliaments for a while, and so weed out the old fossilised members, and return good members to tbe House that will do their level best for the good of the whole colony and the working men; and, possessing good men, we can then keep them in fur five years. — Yours through all the subsequent ages of time, Old Jim.