TALK AND TAXATION.
TO the editor.
Sir, Your correspondent, "H. Crispe," is just about right when he says that our misrepresentatives have done " little else than talk and impose more taxation on an already overtaxed people." With the single exception of Mr. Withy, all our Auckland members were returned for the very purpose of imposing additional taxation, and this for the good of the so-called working man. How hilly this has been realised, the increased cost of everything abundantly proves. Now that troublous times have enveloped our capitalists, where are our noble so-called working men? Why, scuttling out of the colony as fast as ships and funds will allow them. Poor Hobbs and the Otago Central! Really, some members appear as if they would vote for a railway to Sheol itself, if they could only get their own little axes ground. It will be a good thing for the colony when the Government is unable to borrow any more money. Then our present educational and Civil Service system will collapse like a pricked bladder.—l am, etc., G.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9124, 4 August 1888, Page 3
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