A WORD TO THE WISE.

Western Star, Issue 2, 22 November 1873, Page 5

A WORD TO THE WISE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — In the name of the people of Riverton and its neighbourhood, I congratulate you on your advent, and hail the appearance of your luminary above our horizon as the harbinger of hope and dawn of a better day for the district. Seeing that we have now the “ organ of speech ” given to us, —a want long felt, —we accept it as a pledge of progress ; and while we anticipate that your earnest endeavours -wall accelerateethat progress and assist the development of the large and various resources of our district, guard our interests, and guide our action, by learning us to think and work in concert for our mutual welfare, we trust that you may be enabled to rejoice in our success, and enjoy a full share of the benefits to be derived from the “ good time coming. But to attain this end, we must be united, and each individual make the common cause of the town and district as if it were his own, and act as if everything depended upon himself. Good and honest eiforts generally succeed; and although we may not make the Jacob’s River district and its environs all we could desire, or say with one of our great poets, “ Then crime shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail, Returning justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o’er our realm her olive branch extend, And white-robed innocence from heaven descend,” yet much will depdnd on our own .ac|ion; but with a more liberal land law, equitable taxation, and just Government, under the divine blessing, progress is certain. But, be it'remembered, no? mode of government ever so just, no’extent of freedom, no laws, no local administrate i ; , however honed, can give to us prosperity, spud coni-' fort to on hoi;, s, and happiness to par fun ■lies, unless there b. j within those hemps tempentacc, aud virtue.---I am, &P-V