LEAVING WELL ALONE

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 8

LEAVING WELL ALONE

To the Editor:.of - t&e."Timarii Herald."' Sir.- There is .a, good old saying, "better let well alone. '. I have 'o&iu reading in the newspaper that some years ago wti grew and 'exported more ■produce iu -(proportion to our popula--t'.on than. :my other country in the world. - We, when there was but a small population, undertook the work of putting the . Lyttelton tunnel through, and did it in good time. I say we, for I"'was in the country at •ihe timo. The-Timaru. breakwater and harbour,; the Smithfield-cutting, wh:'ch was 110 • .smallunderfcak.'ng,. : the Otira tunnel, which'l might say is accom-r. plished, besides our thoiisands of miles .of railways, have been built by us. In fact we are abreast of the age and up-to-date, and going well and prosperous, and w°'felt /the war.but very little, except for -all .our line fellows,, who lostj their lives. The epidemic we got through better than most countries. On tern of our troubles comes this, prohibition campaign. T fee' fie sumo ns ,th 011 s,■>"()<} besides nio, insultej trx tolerate "Wiiasa - wowsiirs, ranters-', and apostles from other countries. who tell us what to do and that we are rio bettor - than we ought, to b e . Th ey remind me of the German bands playing in .England'and, Scotland, with som? of tbeir "best scientists ' and surveyors among them,-, taking plans of their railways and harbours. Is it for our food oi*v the good of hnmnnity that those fellows an? cfoming? Wh rfi they g'»t back their country w'llv know more of our resources and commence th'nn we do ourselves " The miglrty dollar is the' moving spirit.' ■■Has the ir>«at trust anything to do with Jt? I, will t"ll you s'liont an argument 1 heard in George Street a, few- days ago.. One says to the ether : ''Wiit. about vour Tommv Tavist-. Or. ATcVob, Profe«sor x T?"dforrl ? Tl>ev nil d'f»'l "oini.ir. SS«v» Tv«llv. +.h Q Rnlco,, and the Shiner. . • They are' s+rniKT vef . .as strong as' Johnny Walker himself.—l am, et.'-., P.II/APTTY.