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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 31, 16 July 1892, Page 4

biR Ghas. Dilke's candidature was recently disapproved, of by the Forest of Dean electors on " moral grounds," Lady Dilke who was present at the meeting cried bitterly when the resolution was declared carried. What an infernal crowd of prigs must have been present at that meeting ! Just imagine the snigger, each of those moral electors must have sniggered to himself when he thanked God that night that he was not as Dilke— that is found out. There is no more relation between a man's ability and his morality than there is between his

cheat measurement and his. grog score. If we owned a steamer and wanted a skipper we shouldn't go to his Sundev school teacher for a certificate as to "his acquaintance with the Acts of Apostles—indeed we should prefer more to know his cussing power,, but more than all we should desire to . learn as to his knowledge of the shoals j and rocks, the channels and shallows , of his course. The .Inspector of ." Machinery might' just as well take" 20lbs pressure off a boiler on the ' ground that it was. not sufficiently sesthetic. in colour, or a mine manager might refuse to employ a good striker because hia hand writing was not -in the style' of Vere Foster. As .well . might a school, master be refused a position on the ground that' J'h:e" couldn't pick locks, oh a blacksmith • be required to pass an examination in ■ • comparative ' anatomy. Must . your- •' lawyer be a Joseph ? When you want your tooth pulled, or your leg cut off, does an array of texts around the doctor's shop give you more faith in his ability?" Do you require .your commercial traveller , to recite- a selection from St. Thomis k Kemps before he runs through his list ?,:Is it absolutely necessary, before you • enjoy your glass of .beer, that you should be aware of the brewers marital relations or the barmaids knowledge of the Apostles . creed ? Pah! a little civet, good apothecary! We want our barber to be able to cut hair and our lawmaker to make sensible and workable laws. If- he has a few amiable faults when its his night out, is that any. reason,-■ 0 pious Forest of Dean, why we should chuck him out and put a a straight-haired oleaginous Chad-,, bound in his place who doesn't know an Act of Parliament from a hole in the ground. Foolish Forest of Dean ! Gr'long! , .. ,