The New Despotism.
. ". \,--'jff •'•5 ; iS Mi Duthieu o^tth^i third reading of the Dairy •Industry '{Bill read an extract frcm an article in the Fortnightly, ,fpr July*; in, wJiich the writer a hiding to similar legislation as this, describes it as — i j -" . . . A phase of despotism worse than the tyranny of a single ruler. We are to be the slaves, of a fussy expediency. We are to have the paltry and prying despotism of the vestry, persecuting each individual by the intrusion of its myriadhanded, shifting, ignorant, and irresistible tyranny into the regulation of our labbu r , ' our hpu sehold , ' and our Very victuals ; and, however; pure iri its abstract intention, neces-i sarily corrupt in its application by: its agents. It will be a despotism which will have to be mitigated by con tiuual ' tips', instead of, as the other kind has had to ba, by occasional assassination. We shall have to tip our policemen and inflpectors for looking over our infvac- \ tions of new popular moralities. Our condition will • very much; resemble Swedenborg's hell, in which ; everybody is incessantly engaged in the endeavour to make everybody else virtuous."
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Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1892, Page 2
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190The New Despotism. Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1892, Page 2
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