A NOVEL SUGGESTION.
TO'THB EDITOR. ' Sia,—The time bas'arrived when the body ! politic should add -another plank to the.platI form of practical politics— vik., every teetotal ! .agitator and' anti-gambler should be taxed £25 I per annum. Ab present these weli-moauiug ; people contribute little or.'nothing through the ; high tariff to the making of the roads aud j bridges aud maintaining the police force, kc., I yet they have ten thousand times more t;> say. I and cause all the absord cuminotion that we | experience in this young and lovely country. I.lf it were not for the police protection those | .deluded people enjoy at other people's expense i tbsy would not stand at; the street corner and ! other public places using language quito calculated to cauie a breach of the peace, aud to oaune (hem to be ducked in the horee trough.— j I am, ka., I Port Chalmers, August 11. Rbfoem.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11191, 13 August 1898, Page 6
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149A NOVEL SUGGESTION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11191, 13 August 1898, Page 6
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