AN OLD TUNE "LAW" WITH VARIATIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 4273, 6 November 1876, Page 1

AN OLD TUNE "LAW" WITH VARIATIONS.

. ?. Of the prindpalrfcafegotota powerful oheok on injnstioe or ftelneMetsV: -. and!oft-Mme* tfciMsole «53*W man; who the service of the Illegal atid culpably danimrwu-omnteet—-talnty of the law (in most oawlenabllnj those who hate money to porohaee oftomft : of it to rende* iWveWfct «riafrlttadWs3«-*:,& of ntovail to a poor man. Aa the Stik ii no* 'ft a xjlaTs organ, hot am* of-r the people, will you fandly And case deserting in itself and wMeh- wjll meet with the sympathy of large numbers of yow readers. .'....., iJ£ J* 16 19tn of November last year J. facing on the Oamaru and Moeraki l^ aa * * ru ? k on <Mje*ou¥port«ott ol being driven beforether engm*;-wh«lr»t-»- —~ level erosaing, owing to some stones beiat on the , the truok was the rails and upset* falling upon M«Briie and injuring him so severely that after extreme suffering he is totally unable tod. any work to thisday v To show that the aeoident was entirely owing % the illesal dangerous position of the truok before the engine, there is the fact that the enain* remained on the.*aihy -plearln**f WW guards or crushing allttie obetruotinjr sto«e£ gine, where it ought to be, noaooident wouli have happened. Also the speed of tike «si gine was three times what It ought to helm the oircumsttobes^and nVsiaeHnVofiSeS as ought to be at the leveUrossTnai. Be en ,ean doubt the legal and'moral reeponsiWlitiof the Messrs Brogden, or that they knew Xas they paid a man who was slightly injurir on that ocoasion a sum of money, -*nt they also offered M'Bride the shabby 1 tie ciroumstanees) of 1&L which sum he rery properly refuses, aaTm. dependent of any compensation, it wooM not nearly recoup the poor man forhis direst outlay of money within a short time after his injuries. An action was brought, and all the foregoing facts were elearly movenV * and his case so ably argued that the iurv gave M'Bride a verdict for L4o6i "New; arto any benefit or redress this decision affords the poor man for his sufferingi, permanent injury,,£nd expepdtture ofliis small savings in trying te"*|pe* Justice, he might as well be» among the poor man never gets it or * looks for it against the riohj for the common dodge ofa new trial is resorted te for the purpose, not pf justice or tte! knowledge that the poor man cannot follow up the case. Looking at the system of new trials, as between capitalists and poor men, with the eye of justioe and common sense, and not through a pair of lesal ''speM/'thevappwr; as m ' struments of oruelty," and eonqaen every working man in the Colony, such as work in connection with railway plant or machinery of any kind. 1 The " rulejiW * appears to be tution, a Darrierorer which wealek-ean-leav - te escape (as in this case) the effect tf -* yerdjLot for a poof man, over wMek the»■'-. lktter cannot 7 follow; while his "wealth* friend "takes a sight" at his the other sidvwhfle the ieflbw tnrng ajway *n his crutches with a sigh, to lino* out a miserable existence or I ' It is well thatcthe publio shouldjaiowHie above, and also that ft is nbtby tee sufferer** suggestion that the above is made known* He is a modest and respectable nan, and deserves recognition. My sympathies are all with the poor man in a just cause, and ' not' with' the rioh when they make their |noney and meanness " a high wall in their A own conceit/'— J ™* m .*** : -i& -.*• Dunedin, November •6:'* : " " ; " <«««j£^li'/I