PRACTICE VERSUS PREACHING.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1441, 8 September 1884, Page 2

PRACTICE VERSUS PREACHING.

(To the Editor, IsaxgahuaTimes),

Sir Being located in a place where I cannot see the papers nor hear any of the current news I make it my business to visit Reefton occasionally to gather up all the news and newspapers I can get. Amongst my latest collection I find the Inawjalina Herald, of the 19th ultimo, containing an article wherein impertinent reference is made of those who signed a petition against the prostitution of the Minors Right's Franchise. T as a miner cordially agree with the object of said petitioners for if such rights are permitted to be procured by political bandits and used for voting purposes only ; then the sooner such franchise is disqualified the better. It is unnecessary for me to allude to the baneful consequences such unwarantable previliges would create as every riirht thinking man is already aware. The writer of the paragraph referred to, Regrets that the petitioners did not adoiit the straightforward course of calling a public meeting, and have any grounds of complaint fairly ventilated ; not having done so, they are charged with acting in a clandestine manner. Now from what I can read. I think the matter had ample publicity, and has been sufficiently ventilated, and it certainly ill becomes those who live in glass houses to attempt stone throwing at their neighbors, (your contemporary) The writer "I presume" of said paragraph, and professedly an advocate to the Roll Stuffing Association accuses that portion of the community who have petitioned against the villainous conspiracy entered into by his "guileless" clients, of deviating from that straightforward line of conduct he "himself" would have adopted, but he plainly showed hi 3 appreciation of straightforwardness when the Roll Stuffing plot was exposed in the R.M. Court, and fully ventilated in the columns of the Inartgahua lime.*, by championing the chief conspirators in the opprobrious compact. He also gave us a fair indication of his sense of straightforward principles when he, under the patronizing wing of the County Council endeavoured to alienate the River reserve from public purposes to their own personal use and benefit, and no doubt would have succeeded, only for the alleged clandestine movements on the part of those " intensly stupid " individuals who petitioned against the wily intrigue then as at present. Hence the inconsistency of those living in glass-houses throwing stones, as preaching what they evince no desire to practice. I am, etc., Miner. Inangahua, September 4th, 1884.