Comparisons are Odious.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3667, 23 October 1897, Page 2

Comparisons are Odious.

[to the editor j Bib,—T have often beard thore i§ one law for the rich and one for the poor. I see in your paper a report where a youth named Mason borrowed £2 for one pnr poao and spent it for another. There is not anything remarkable that men having money to pay come account with drop into a pab and spend it, and the party they ewe it to has got to wait or use the civil Court. Would it not have been better to have summoned this young man than to have sent him to prison ? Bat how is it that things are so severely dealt with in Waipawa, and so leniently in Dnnedin ? Here a youth borrowed £2 on his personal security, anJ for so doing ie sent to prison for four months. In the South, a mao, the idol of the Government, the martyr whom the Lnird of Bushy Park weeps over, a fallon brother who did not feather his neat, (he look a great many feathers out of many a poor person’s nest), who borrowed £30,000 on oats that had no existence, is left at largo, feted and honored. Are we to conolnde that the crime rests on the smallness of the sum, and anyone daring to lie to obtain 40s must be disgraced and imprisoned, bat lie for £30,000 makes the man whom Dootor Seddon delights to honour.—l am, eto, Fair Plat Sam.