THE LATE ELECTION.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 43, 14 June 1878, Page 2

THE LATE ELECTION.

TO TnK KDtfUl OF TUB TIMES. Pir^-— lii your issue on tho 10th appears a very long lotter signed ' A Hater of Runkum," whicii makes frequent uso of uiy nn me, and purporting t*> be au answer lo my letter in your issue ot the Jib. Rut ] acu afraid Sir,, tbo writer has shot wide ofhismurlu It surely would not occur to nny ordinary realtor that I bad given racosion. foastwh aa ovor&iw oT pictg. Ani though it is uot my habit to answer anonymous letters, yet* n dvep sense of ro> speeir for iho km&wn shyness of tie writer mokes me modify my habit jiusl to. correct him iv tho only places holonohes on wlmt I wns dealing with j and thot is where ho denies that Home foil from its greatness by its peoplo disoarding labor. I would just refer your correspondent tothe Now Ztenliiid Tablet of Vlny Slst whero a pastoral addross by tie pro<ont Pope is partly reproduced, in which he goes on to show that ono of the oluef yin uos of tho *Clitwal»' hns been its fostering of Inborn Uo goes f-n. to say that tabor is oonsidorod as a source oft prosperity j but tluit tlie Greeks donied tho laborers the namo ofcitijum nnd ranked thorn ns slnves. Cicevo lookod upon inhorors and skilled' worker* M- barburintis. And goes on. further to quoto from Torenco o-Nd J'uvonnl, that the Romans livod nu idlo life, ond the poor or.nged to the riohv Surely yoor correspondent will not try to controvert the Popo and' his quotations. Your correspondent, I think makes a fnii*- step in saying that it wns tho lack of Christianity which dostroyed the Komnn Empire, He should not forgot that both Orcoco and Homo must lmvo boon great beforo they foil from grentnoss, and that groatness must hnvo boon boforo tbo days of tho Church or Christianity. I only montion this. by way of n hint,; and rcsfrot tint suehia-hondpieco ns your correspondent must possess should ho spoiled through the want ofa little reflection. Indood this was my feeling when I saw and heard' bim at the mooting when I addressed tho Roofton electors. You»*s, &0., John JUimowMAN, Groymoutli, Juno 12th, 1878.