PEMBROKE ROAD POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 70, 6 November 1911, Page 4

PEMBROKE ROAD POLITICS.

(The Editor “Stratford Evening Rost.”) Sir, —In Friday’s issue I notice a letter from one J. Smith. I would like to know who informed that one J. Smith of my mentioning railway workmen. He says my letter is typical of a real old Tory, and not very accurate at that. A number of people are very good at advising others to speak the truth, but do they do it themselves. That one J. Smith is writing of the late seventies when the Stout-Vogel Government were in power, and not the present Opposition who reigned during the eighties. If ;ny memory serves mo rightly that power was defeated in 1891. Every cue knows, who knows anything about the relief works during the reign of the present Opposition, that married men received tis Cd a day and single men 2s Cd. There is a considerable number of the- present Opposition travelling the country saying the present Government nave been too long in power. Very few of the workers of to-day know what it is to live under Opposition rule. They have not the slightest idea what their parents suffered to rear them—milking on shares for two-fifths and butter from -Id to Gd per II). That is what things were like under the present Opposition when money was lo per cent. Had wo not managed to change the Government instead of farmers being able to retire in their old-age, they would have had to go into .the Old People’s Home. If there is one thing I detest more than'another it is those contemptible humbugs who enjoy all the benefits of the Liberal measures and then vote, against the present Government.—l am, etc., T. CUTKBERT. Pembroke Road, Nov. 6th, 1911.