POOR BUT HONEST AND THE STRUGGLING JOURNALIST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1299, 5 June 1880, Page 2

POOR BUT HONEST AND THE STRUGGLING JOURNALIST.

j ; T0 THJB EDITOR OF THE QAJftARU; WAWh Dear-Mr. -Poor, Bpt Honest,'V-I have read your letter, and I like you and your style, have been lota of vulgar attempts to ' work the poor*man dodge for the coming election, but no ono "has shown the artist but'yourself. There are some bits of your, letter real touching ; for instance, where you saj? " Let us cojv> sider how many ,of our. most. eminent politicians—men who . have left behind them ' foot-priiits on Jthe sands of time 1 that can never be e|faced-r-«jpuld not hwra \ entered parliament, had there been ho/ hqrio^riijiu." that, is just beautiful, / and must appeal ta the working man's finer, feelings, Though no doubt it will take a precious lot of taxation to efface some of their foot-prints. Farther on you must make the poor man's heart glow within him, when,,after describing " a str.ugding, journalist battling against a hard faie iEor an honest livelihood," you exclaim, , " Who comes next J Another struggling journalist." He was a regular stunner, and, a3 I to. aee a poor - man getting on, jj \?as quite glad when.l camp. Jo .the pit where you say " Truej he ai laafc accepted a Government billet, but there was nothing dishonorable in the transaction." Qf course not. " For Brutua is an honorable man ; so are they all, all honorable , mon." It is quite plain from your spirit-stirring letter that wo | "must go-far a.sti'nggling journalists. That's , the sort for. us.. He, too, might at last accept a GoyeriiTX\ei*fc ballet. The, oajy hotkey is. how, to gaaHßon the working man. ' I would like to- lend you a. hand. Would .anything in this way be 6f use ? THE, ELDERSLIE GIANT, " Fee-fi-fo-liinr l ~;, I smell theblood ,<)f m(tH. Be he al;vd, ! or 'ba he dead; v ' I'H haye. hi? bones to make my bread. —That should give them a good scare, and give brains a ohaooe,—l am &c., ' ASNIB JBluhderbobb.