LAW AND LAW-MAKERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12540, 29 June 1901, Page 5

LAW AND LAW-MAKERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—-There is something -wrong. I am sure there is something -wrong. Suppression of anything, without inquiry, denotes unfair play. Fancy Mr Seddon or Lordl Salisbury, or any.other one man, suppressing the liquor traffic without, consulting or letting the people know about it. Would you agree to that? Would you agree with Mr Chamberlain, if he laid; bands on the “ Lyttelton Throes ” printing plant because the Editor had written something about Mr Seddon that Mr Seddon said' was not true? Would it bo fair to suppress the “ Lyttelton Tiroes ” without investigating matters? I verily believe you would 1 not agree to it. In. every instance where one man libels another the courts which are called courts of justice should be the place to settle the question. If this course is evaded, no matter by whom, suspicion is at one© aroused. Let us be just to ail. Under just enditions there is no fear of any country tumbling to pieces. There is none of us but has committed sins; there is none' without faults. But when we commit them we cannot expect to stop people from talking about us or writing about us. But when people are talking lies about us, then, as I have said, we nave our remedy under our boasted British Constitution of Justice. But if the head of this glorious Ocmslatution is to make a!ll the laws, as a roan told roe to-day he does, and then to evade them when he pleases, and, further, to punish. people who want him to be subject to the same laws, it is time to ring down 1 the curtain and dose the show. The day when the King can do no wrong k at its last hour. Democracy is conscious. This is proved by •the-seven-tcen votes that were cast in the Australian Parliament in to-day's cable against one ““ a™****- 1 < “ ( jEa'’BAKnr.