LOOKING BACKWARDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 293, 9 December 1914, Page 8

LOOKING BACKWARDS.

[To This Editor Stratford Post.]

Sir, —I have noticed several longwinded effusions in your paper lately above the signature of “F. .1. Jackson,” his latest advising the electors of Taranaki how to vote on Thursday next. Now this is very kind oi Mr Jackson, but 1 am sure the highlyeducated. intelligent and progressive

Taranakites are quite prepared to exercise their own judgment on that important day. Anyhow, they do not want advice on this matter from' the nnprogressive wayhacks of Wairarapa. Then he gives us a dissertation on the shortcomings of the Liberal Party regarding the great injustice which Inis been done to the North Island n the allocation of railway mileage, blaming the Liberals for the putting down of a much greater mileage in the Soutli Island. Now, if -Air Jackson had the least idea of what he was writing about, lie should know that the South Island railways were constructed during the long and eventually disastrous career of the Atkinson -cum-AVhitaker-cnm-Hall Administration. It is true that during the twenty years odd of office by the Liberals they had to spend some small sums on the' South Island railways, principally in the direction of getting lines to utility points; as the lines’had been carried to the back yards of the squatter supporters of the Atkinson Government, which administration had made an abortion of Sir Julius Vogel’s grand scheme of Public Works, costing ten millions sterling. I noticed Mr Jackson having a gibe at Sir Julius Vogel, but A r ogel’s little finger knew more about finance than the Massey Administration ever dreamt of in its wildest flights of imagination!—l am, etc., (Certain personal references are here deleted.—Ed. “Stratford Post.”) M. McCORMACK. Tariki, December 8, 1914.