THE COST OF FETISH WORSHIP.
TO TIIK EDITOR.
Sir, —Nothing could show in a stronger light the cost to the country of the fetish of Democracy than the letter of your correspondent "Democrat" on the Wellington election, and the admissions of the Ministerial party generally. All allow that the defeated candidate was by far the best man of the two, and yet the exigencies of party deprive the country of his services. If this is the case in this instance it is likely to be the case in respect to the Ministers themselves, and wili soon be the case in the civil service, and throughout the State generally. We are to have always inferior men thrust upou us for the sake of a fetish worship as unreasoning and unreasonable as priestcraft or the narrowest religious creed ever was. It is merely a case of the substitution of political for religious intolerance and bigotry. Cannot your correspondent " Democrat" see this, and while he is "improving the occasion" draw your readers attention to the loss they suffer by party government.—l am, &c,
January 22,
A Fetish Hater.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9331, 23 January 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)
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185THE COST OF FETISH WORSHIP. Otago Daily Times, Issue 9331, 23 January 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)
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