REPLY TO LOOK AHEAD.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2168, 15 December 1875, Page 2

REPLY TO LOOK AHEAD.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—l regret I cannot respond to the invitati&n from your anonymous correspondent "Look Ahead" ■ to nail -our colours*to Sir George Grey's !mast. I; may say I listened to his speech, I harej heard it before many times, in half-a« dozen different countries the sum of it being this—Jack, or Tom as the case may be—l know you to "be a hard working } honest fellow for whom I have: a great respect now, I have long promised to do something for you, and here, it is. .I£ is a dead gift, a certain fortune "in fact, I have a few scrip for sale and with the greatest difficulty I have retained these for you, now, by the expenditure of a few shillings there is yducl fortune. Nearly 40 years of travel by sea and land, have made me slightly sceptical about the purity of my fellow creatures; more-, when a- man is heralded by a flourish of trumpets, th? first thing. I ask is this—■what,position; has this man held, and ho ir long ? And then next, now then, what has he dohe T for the masses during this time; and the only answer I receive is this—well, he has secured an island for liiniselfj whife you have not got enough land to grow* a cabbage on ! Now, sir, I saythat when a, man of this description comes before me,; more especially if he is going to do any thing particularly good for me, I become seriously alarmed. I know his little gainei He wants to sell me some<df his* worthless scrip. I have purchased lots^ of ip in my time, and always with the same result. "Look Ahead" 5 has not given one single reason why we should look .upon Sir George Grey as our political' saviouil with the exception of the " Smiling Home Arrangement." Now " of J all the insane delusions that human beings are capable of conceiving, that is — in my humble opinion — about the most erroneous. Dante's inscription would suit admirably, " All you who enter here leave hope behind." I have seen a couple of thousand, and nearly all failed. I commend Mr Brighouse's letter to " Look Ahead" attention, and ask him if thesV men are in a position .to make smiling homes. I presume "Look Ahead" is addressing the Thames people, not two or. three capitalists. No, my dear sit7*i>at is not the article we require at present/1 venture to say. We want works to start in this very place "to keep our population here, not to send them away. I should put [it id iiuV way to the Government—" You have borrowed millions that liarj enhanced the value of all landed properties, now-senc| a few thousands down; here for reproductive works, and beep your men employed by tumbling some of these hilla on that foreshore, and make some sort of a harbor that ships may discharge; their cargoes in safety. Captains' of vessels write to your papers telling (you 1 plainly they would not accept a" freight' for the Thames. Fancy a first class sea port with nearly enough wharfage accom- £ modation for a fishing boat!—l am, &c, G. S. .Reddish. Shortland.' . • ■ y; •; ? r