NOT ABOVE WORK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1869, 10 February 1892, Page 4

NOT ABOVE WORK.

"Proteus" in the "Kaikoura Star," alluding to the dialike of some representatives to return to their ordinary callings, relates the following circumstance : —Calling in at the " Ashburton Mail " office I found the member for Waimate, attired in a manner as became his temporary occupation, engaged in folding that afternoon's issue of his paper. Surely then if the Speaker of the House of Representatives does not consider it derogatory to his dignity to discard the " ermine," setting aside the robes of his exalted office, and engage in work which is generally performed by some one or more of the juvenile " imps " attached to the staff of a printing office, then it is certainly not undignified to hark back to the jack-plane, the shoemaker's awl, or the tailor's goose — as the case may be. Major Steward by his action proved lo me that he is truly a representative of Labour, as all are who act in a similar manner. Not so those who, when they enter the Legislative fold, consider themselves elevated to a higher sphere — above the common herd — a: d at once become inflated with a false idea as to their position. In their pride they renounce their legitimate means of gaining their livelihood, and trade upon the credulity and kind heartedness of their unsophisticated associates and fellow workmen.