The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 8, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 231, 8 October 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 8, 1901.

CAPITAL AND LABOR. I The great A merit-in steel strike is I significant in tiie lessens that can be | drawn from it. The Dinted States | Steel Trust, after purchasing and conr j billing tiro great steel corporations of | America, certainly had the right to | run its business iu its own way, and | employ whom it pleased. But labor j and capital, as a writer observes, are I essential to the success of great cor--1 partitions. Without capital there ] could ii'* no steel business, but it is | essentially true that without the eo- ! operation of labor there could be no j steel industry. Tho stock holders of ! the steel corporation furnish the eupi- • tal, and capital has certain ends to I gain from its co-operation with labor. ! The labor paity having certain ends to e-ain from its co-oporation with capital, a sound economic policy was necessary that each party to tho contract should act with tho most scrupulous fairness to each other. But capital in this par ticular case starts oil with tho presumption that it does not intend tc act fairly, for the United Steel Corporation has been so excessively inflated that tho conviction could not be avoided that fair business could not be done, year iu and year out, without i depriving tho labor involved in the I production of steel of its fair economic 1 proportion of the product. It was tr insure their rights iu a contingency o: this sort that the operatives sought ti dictate to the Steel Trust how it shoulf run its mills. Theoretically, this course may seem high-liandod, bn necessity knows no law. Labor nnu bo demanding more than its right from capital, for tho simple roasoi that it it is tolerably certain that capi tal will demand more than its right from labor if not checkmated in time Superficially, tho United States Stcc Corporation presents a fairly docen attitude to the public in matters rela j tive to its operatives. It is only on 1 ! profound view of the economic fea j tures of t'llo situation that it may b | perceived that the operatives con j sciously or unconsciously took tli ! aggressive ia order to prevent them ■ selves being crushed to death later or

BUSY MEN AND NATURE. It is often remarked that in tho evolution of tho race man lias a tendency to drop to the condition of a mere machiue, and that apart from the time devoted to his business and family ho has little iu common with things around him. The time, iu his boyhood days, when lie found it a pleasure to revel in nature’s beauties, is now passed—tho time when ho waded in the cool streams that rippled over the gravel beds, and arose in the early morning, with a light and joyful heart to hear the birds iu full chorus, has given place to tho absorbing claims of business. But can it bo said that the memory of these happy days has disappeared. No, for no man ever forgets these tilings. The impress of naturo is too deep to bo so speedily obliterated. It is like the early impressions of childhood that rest unspoken iu the heart for long years, only to rise to tho lips at some unhidden moment. Busy men do nut forget. But competition calls for their full energies—time is money to thorn now. They hurry to and from their shops onweashed in their net of responsibilities and the thousand and one cares that arc forced upon them. There are times when tho secret memories of their youth come back to thorn, and they feel they are prisoners. It may bo at such times the heart cries out for tho Springtime and to again find its freedom iu Nature’s pleasures. This desire is growing very rapidly. Of recent years there has arisen a movement to make Nature’s studies more popular, not merely iu the schools, but in the homes and among older people. It is being generally felt that tho life of the individual aud the life of nature are in close sympathy. Nature is man’s best inspiration. She has epitomised his life drawing the lesson of failure and success. Our finest aspirations aro suggested by her Tho psalmist c nnpared the righteous man to a tree—the tree which draws its nourishment from the soil, then grows up —up always—to perfect growth. TIIO poet linds the deepest truths in nature, aud from nature we absorb broad sympathies and high incentive.

INCREASE OF GAMBLING. As was anticipated in sporting circles, the adoption of tho principle of paying totalisator dividends on first and second horses in events where there are more than five starters lias resulted in an increase of gambling. In nearly every case siiico the new system has come into vogue there has been a substantial increase in the totalisator receipts. At Hawke’s Bay meeting, which concluded yesterday, the sum of £11,050 was put the totalisator for the two days, as against £'J2iiO for the previous year. The Club is therefore better off to the extent of nearly £2OO in regard to tho two days racing. The payment on first and second horses is preferred by backers, as it gives them two chances of securing a dividend. It is also welcomed by horse owners, ns it enables thorn iu the event of being beaten for first place to save more than the amount of their investment, as twenty-live per cent of the total amount invested on the machine is distributed amongst tho backers of the second horse In one race at Napier yesterday three dividends were paid, as two of tho competitors ran a dead heat for second place. There is no doubt, however, it will tend to increase the gambling throughout the colony, and for this reason it is to be regretted that so many clubs have ! adopted the system.