DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
(To -the Editor Gisborne Times.)
Sir,—lt seems to me that your nu-
merous correspondents on tins subject are bringing it down to a controversy as to the demerits of extremists among employers and employees. It is unreasonable to expect that all can lie angels on this earth—whatever we may become afterwards. What I ain'much worried about over the petition is as to what will happen when King Richard brings out the shipment ol girls to
this fair land. All will soon become entitled to votes, and will they not become arch-democrats the day they, land ? We are doomed now to preference for Unionists—King Richard has willed it so, in faee.of all the Farmers’ Union organisations, and how long will it be for. the preference business to reach the great army ol domestics ? Why, if they combined now politically, they could, with the aid of male sympathisers,-sweep the land and pile taxation on to the owners thereof. It is certainly “a. very .rash step for our domestic affairs to be thus voluntarily handed over to Blr Seddon, who will soon have us in for a State scrubhery and .washery.—l am, etc., TRU BLUE.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 14 July 1903, Page 2
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