: It. would bo difficult .to tho. uphill fight'which l is being'.mamtainaj oh-. \ ,tho ltand to-day by ' nidn'iwhpsb'; position-. a 'fow years ago was dcomcd'ouC.'bf .compara-/ tiyo security. To keep thV.lujjufj. abbvb. water' has become 'tho siipremp' olJicct . of .]ifo to hundreds of pcoplo uuhist'ry and,. , thrift have not saved them' from, the inenafco ' I '' of .gaunt penury and onforced idleness.— "Transvaal Leader," Johannesburg.^,,........ The timo has conie ' for"maliin^\tl»b;''hboliif' : . r- ' , I " lion of imprisonment for debt/a reality.' The'f present system,' under. which" a'''m?tt'lrKo 6 ':'*''- 1 owes a ' sovereign may suffor "'.'ir > ;heayj[cr''-'' : penalty than a man who st-6als ! one,' lias'- fei suited in a harmful oxtensioh of credit-giving among tho". working classes.—".Law Jour- 1 nal." ;; . V:' '■ ;:;f If thoro is Va spark of v '. left in- tho" -British'' workman' Ko will- b'e "the first to shy at .tho"suggestion that rit' ;, t'h<3 <v(. age: of sixty ho shall be. pauperised >frv T ' ; the r '' : oxteut of ss. a weok.—"Court Journal."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 36, 6 November 1907, Page 4
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