THE REMEDY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 2, 3 July 1865, Page 2

THE REMEDY.

[Communicated.] A word to my fellow working men. At this time of trial, both politically and socially, it behoves us the working men of this Province to use every means in our power both for our own advancement and also to strengthen the Only Foece that can be brought to bear effectually against that class that is seeking our -enslavement, and endeavoring to crush out that spirit of independent pride;—the great incentive to our leaving onr native land to make a home in a colony. It is indeed a grievous sight, to see so many of those who can see and feel the injustice of some of those who have succeeded in gaining the upper hand of them: themselves the willing slaves of the baneful habit of what is called* 4 nobblerising.” It seems scarcely consistent for complaints of oppression and injustice to be made by men who are notoriously addicted to this vice, or of want of employment and hardships from those who can yet find means to enrich the drink-seller. Just at this time the unscrupleous schemes of men in power, but who would never have been in power but for the help they received from the drinking system ; the un prince pled schemes of these men, are causing great excitement through the Province, but there can be no doubt that if the working men will only be true to themselves and instead of wasting that which would enable them to succesfully resist the efforts of those who seek to enserf them, will employ it in their own social and political elevation, they need have no fear for the result.

This upstart squatocraticclique knows well that the poorer a man is the more he is in their hands and the easier it is to make him submit under the burdens they lay upon him. They are as a class, entirely without principle or sense of justice, their unfaithfulness and morality is a bye-word in the Colony, their craftiness and mean trickery,,their utter want of feeling and honor, render them the scorn of concientious men. There is one who is a fair specimen of the men that seek the absolute rule over us. This man, is the owner of a sink of iniquity, where scenes of disgusting debauchery are day by day enacted, and their sounds fail melodiously upon his ear, and there are many such, if not themselves keepers of such places, are direct eucouragers of them, and profit by them. The working men need an increase of political power, and we may rest satisfied that the spending of time and cash at the public house will fail in giving itus. We must become more independent. We must apply our earnings to other and better uses than our own mental and physical injury or destruction, the more we spend in noblers the less we are likely to become freeholders, and, knowing this, the class that has the upper band encourage in every way that which they know enslaves and impoverishes these under them. They consider this as of such great importance that they hold out inducements, almost amounting to premiums for debauchery, and the men whose lot is cast for a time in their power have t) bear the meannesses and Legree like vindictiveness of their unjust employers. Working men —Our remedy is Abstinence, voluntary, UNIVERSAL, and TOTAL.