That Footbridge.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 568, 10 February 1891, Page 3

That Footbridge.

(to the editob.; Sib, —Mr Sandlant is possessed with such an active mind that he can never be at rest while there is material to work upon, and such material there will be until Bellamy, Tolstoi, or some other sweet reformer has made the world fat and comfortable. If Mr Sandlant would be contented with expending his ammunition on the newspapers it would be good fun; they have broad backs and probably always have on hand a stock of past sins that r quire atoning for. 80 let them have it when the chance comes. If they do not object to changes of toadyism and so on who need do so ? Ay, let them have it; hang, draw and quarter all the editors and reporters and all the rest of them. But Mr Sandlant and his friends would be wise if they were a little less hasty in other ways. The threat of applying to the Supreme Court will have a widely different effect to that intended, Many ratepayers feel that the Borough has been laboring under a great injustice, but they have been willing to submit to it so as to save trouble, but threats are more than they will submit to, as Councillors who show weakness over this matter may eventually find to their cost. The ratepayers I write of are quiescent now, but when the proper time arrives they will very soon make their side of) the case felt. Mr Sandlant threatens litigation instead of offering to subscribe a fair share to the bridge, Then Ist the ball roll on for the time being, Those who really are affected by the loss of the bridge wilt find this sort of advocacy do very little good tfl their cause. If Mr Sendlant's letter is correct the Councillors snubbed the Mayor in a most ungentlemanly way. Those are the natural sequence and relative surroundings set forth in the letter. If these natural sequences jand relative surroundings are believed to be correct mots than one Councillor would be publicly called on to resign hie seat.—l am, etc., BonoVolL