OUR PROSPERITY AND ITS CAUSE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 274, 5 December 1899, Page 2

OUR PROSPERITY AND ITS CAUSE.

To the Editor of ths " Evening Mail."

Sir,— Will yon kindly allow me to pot these few questions to the electors? If Mr Graham will use a logos school certificate obtained illegally, and by misrepresentation, by h : s own relatives for the purpora of securing casual emp'oyment for his nephew, whnt will he not do if a rich bait U dangled before him ? j If ire elect men of his stamp to Parliament what can ire expict. of a Houbb bo constructed? Do we pay onr Ministers and Members of Parliament to disenss and arrange as to what boys shall clean the engines, etc., at the railway workshops and sheds ? If so, which is the more costly, the work done by the boys, or the dfcousßion between Ministers and Men bers ? If the casual work done by boys is pre-arranged as stated by Mr Graham, what are the opportunities for the ge-.cral public? Sir, one other rnm-rk and I hare done. Sixteen years a»o sheep could be bought by the thonsnnd for a shilling a head and lese on the sheep stations in Marlborongb, and no donbt at similar prices all through the South Island. (I hare reon toll by a drover that he delivered 900 sheep from t' c Upper Awatere to Blenheim for ■£30— which price paij for the sheep and driving.) At tho present day similar sheep are worth from 6a to 103 on the stations, the increase in ralne being due to our frozen mutton, which was beginning to be felt at the time of which I torite, viz. 16 years ago, seven years before the Seddon Government took office. I myself tallied over 10,000 car.'aars of mutton into one of the N.Z.B. Co.'s steamers sixteen years ago this month or last. This inorease in the raluo of sheep, Sir, has put an enormous amount of money in circulation, and I would ask the eleotors whether this baa anything to do with the prosperity of the colony or not? a.nd whether wo are to thank onr " Autocratic anti-Libertl Government" for the benefits anting therefrom? Sir, we have had more than our fill of Seddomsm, and I trust that we have Been the las" of it, for a decade at least. ■ X am yours, etc, TRUE LIBER4.L. .