Manawatu Herald. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1890. People the Land.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 13 June 1890, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1890. People the Land.

Yea.k out, year in, the cry is always the same, get people on the land The cry comes from the towns, which aveb *in • smothered vu'hlabour and are made by those who intend to remain in then. People will not go upon the land, so long as the towns prevent the country being < p -tied tip, by grabbling the major expenditure of the pub ie money. Settlors upon the land offer no welcom • • exa • pie for others to follow in their footsteps, when roads remain unmade, children are unable co n»nch a school, for which their parents pay. nnd the eos of the liecpssiri.s of life are increased so that people may be kept in the to wus" Before more people will settle in the counfrv those who are thero row will have to be better treated.

" Let the boys go and make* a ] home ior themselves,' will be gbbd f advice wloen feobint .drra_gements t h_,v_ undergone a change. Not i every parent has the means to pay i for hi- boy' 3 education on a station i as a cadet, and to enable him to ac- \ quire the knowledge neceasary to \ make a living on land, as there is ] something to . learn,, though, many < write as if ail that is necessary ie ( the possesion of so much soil, he , has to send him out to work in a , farming district on wages. This is „ the | eribdof trial for a la_, especially for one used to town life and nociety, and who haß been well brought up and educated. The possession of wealth in this Colony is no [guarantee that the possessor haa education, and it undoubtedly ' frequently happens that he has had none. It also ia unfortunately the case that the pooi man who acquired wealth Jhas every little knowledge how to use it aright, or how to retain the position of master, without the awunmption of amusing, but to the employe galling, airs of super igrity. The bed that the lad has chosen ia a hard one to lie on, aud ie made harder by. the peculiar social etiquette prevailing which places the lad who 'works with his hands, at agric.ultjijVef r ie-ow the lad who works wiih His pen in the Ba ik or shop. i. Goodness only knows why, but the fact remains. Fancy the dreariness of tlie work, week after week, to a lad used to the companionship of well toned friends, to, drag the tim c - v out with the rougher olasa<*B, generally employed in the .arm work. His work, necessitates rough clothing, and his duties entail much dirty work, and v less kind consideration is shown to him, who can wonder that step 'by.Btephe loses his self respect, and from "' utter despondency permits himself to --ink into the adoption of many bad habits. . ; The outcry for a goneral levelling of society is made more from the feeling that every man 's equal, aud is entitled to resp> ct for his man* hjod, than from nny desire to unjustly share his neighbours property, it is his interest and companionship he seeks, not money. How absurd tho different attempts to form classes, appears to one who can view Colonial aristocracy from afar, and 4 who isaware that those who aspire to be of a higher and superior race, began life in a much lower sphere in every respect,; thon those they wou.d think it beneath them to know. In every town and village the same pretensions to position are usurped, and it would he ridiculous, were i*: not so harmful to the best interests bf our boys. Though we have instanced farm work, we do not intend our remarks to app.y only to that description <.f labour, as there are many workers in different pursuits, who nre as much entitled to conside: ation as the representative lad We reviewed the farm labourer, ns so much just' now is said about the land, f but in every walk in life the la.d; who retains the '* manners that make the gontleman ' should be acknowledged. It behoves all those who really wish well to the youth of the Colony to remember that they have much | to answer for, as our young, men, from want of contact with the world, are wonderfully shy, and unless sought out, are bound to drift, year by year, farther a. iay from all tho associations connected with ' the homes tbey may have left to develope our country lands.