INNOCENT SUFFERERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 127, 30 May 1908, Page 5

INNOCENT SUFFERERS.

TO THE BDITOE

Sir, —The relation ship between the State and ,the people has been compared to that of parent? and child, but considering the stripping process to which I and my family have been subject, the State seems to have acted less as a parent- than a kidnapper. Thus our .admirable form of. Government: if the head of a family transgresses the lav. r, the living ir. taken away, and the mother and family; who are the principal sufferers, are left to languish and battle with the cold, cold world as best they can. And' on the unerring (?) principle that wrong never comes right, the rulers of this God's Own Country determine that the man who does wrong shall not come right.

"As if they were consenting to All mischiefs in the world men do; Or, like the devil, did tempt and I sway'em To rogueries, and then betray 'em.'' Hudibras.

- Tlipn the Government hits upon an expedient for filling the coffers of the State by crying, " Fill the cradles," and avhen they are full and running over there:s no roof to put over their heads, but a ruin of three rooms. Avhich. to say the least, is not sale ulpted to increase the love of moral beauty in a family of eight. Oh, shade of religion! where art ■ thou? There is a Judicious spreading of it over a considerable surface—to use a. figure from a chemist's shop, a plaster of it h always ready' to be applied to the sores, but it'is of a very shady character, and has no practical value.

DILEMMA