THE FARMERS' VIEW.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 9

THE FARMERS' VIEW.

(To tho Editor.) Sir, —Allow mo a few linos as a farmer in reply to Mr. Hickoy's statement that fanners working tho cargo of ships during tho striko are "scabs." I ask: Whoro would tho waterside workers bo if tho fanners went on strike? I am afraid they would faro very badlv if thoy depended on ships' cargo from foreign ports. What about tho enormous shipments of cheese, wool, butter, and other agricultural products too numerous to mention P Allow me to inform Mr. Ilickcy that tho ''cow farm" is a more elevating .sphe.ro than that occupied by tho fanatics and disturbers of the public pence.—l em, ete., COAV-SPAXKER. Pahiatmi, October 'JB. LEADERS OF ANARCHY, (To the Editor.) Sir,—l was. talking to an ex-wat«r-jide. worker this morning, Ho said: "I

was working for tlrreo years at the wharf, and saw tbo agreement signed— and it could not have bocil 1 lettered. There are many decent men among tlia strikers,. but a great many are tbo reverse. J know, for I have worked among thom; and theso men who are inciting them to burn and pillage aro not Now Zoalaiulcrs, but coifio from America and elsewhere—not Socialists, but Anarchists puro and simple." They talk of brothorhond, but aro only seeking their own interests, Mid how nana men win bo so easily gulled by thom is a. mystery. Sad to say, New Zealand is considered in Amend to bo tho lilt" est field for cranks and mountebanks' of all descriptions in the world, and it seems a truo bill. The mail rfitod abovo told mo lie rnntlo from £2 to £7 a week on tho wharf. So much for tho poor, oppressed wiitcrslders I What is their object? They aay to ruin tho rich man. And who aro the fow rich men in New Zealand? Ha.'d, very hard working men, who, aftor of Strug" glo ami economy, liavo rison to oompotence. Tho Itullt of the settlors aro small farmers—hard workers, and tho backbone of tho country; and theso are tho men who aro ruined by a Strike. Tho strikers aro simply mqd to believe the deliberate lies these wind-bags tell them. May they soon regain their senses.—-I nm, etc., ANTI-HUMBUG.