SELF-ASSUMPTION REBUKED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10616, 11 March 1896, Page 4

SELF-ASSUMPTION REBUKED.

TQ THK EDITOR.

Sib, —I should not have trespassed further on your valuable space re Mr Barnshaw only my silence in this instance would b . tantamount to acknowledging the hon. gentleman had quite annihilated so small au atom as niys.flf. 1 am sorry that so severe a lesson as Mr Eirnshaw imagines he had previously administered has uot restrained me from " bobbing up serenely " to deliver some palpable shafts of criticism which have evidently told so strongly on that gentleman's bellicose nature as to invoke the aid of bounce to assist him in delivering a second lesson with a like result. However, I can forgive the hon. gentleman, uince he evidently considered my criticism of so cogent a nature as co merit an immediate reply. Nevertheless I can assure him that as long as I am an elector of this di.trict, or any other, I ahaU when I thiuk fit criticise the action of our representatives, especially if, as in this case, I unfortuuately sssisted to place him in tha position he occupies.

To conclude. If the hon. member would cease to dabble in ideals and faddism, confine himself to practical politics, and instead of fighting for one section of the community use his best endeavours to legislate in the interests of all classes, remembering that each class goes to form a homogeneous whole, that labour and capital are in a measure indissoluble, that whatever legislation is of a class nature is vexations aud irritable to the others and liable to still further loosen the ties that should firmly bind these two great factors of universal good together, he would with his undoubted talents not only carve for himself a name on the floor of the House, but in the hearts of th« people of this fad-ridden colony.—l am, &c., March 9. S. E. Poyntz.

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