THE WORM TURNS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 8

THE WORM TURNS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 21. There is at least one man in Sydney who believes that he was created simply to bo defrauded by everyone and everything around him. One of tho big city banks recently asked him, very politely, to reduce his overdraft. Now, if the man had been a modern Bayard he would have sent the bank a nice, polite, chivalrous note which would, in alj. probability, have further annoyed it. But here are a few passages from his reply, the humour of which probably helped to preserve his good relations with the bank: —“I have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked on, sat upon, flattened out, and squeezed, first by the Federal income tax, then tho Stale income tax, the super tax, the excess profits tax, war loans, the municipal tax, tho automobile tax, and by every organisation and society that the inventive mind of man can invent to extract what I may or may not have in my possession. The Government has so governed my business that I do not know who owns it. lam inspected, suspected. examined, and re-examined, informed, required, and commanded, so that I fail to understand whom I am or why lam he-re at all. Because I will not sell all I have and go out and bog, borrow, or steal money to give away I am cussed, discussed boycotted, falkod to, talked about. Hod to, lied about, held up, hung up, hung down, robbed, and near ruined end the only rason why I am clinging to life now is lo see what the_ can happen next.” Lots of people in Sydney feel that way. But they cannot express themselves quite so well.