Notes and Events.
Twenty thousand artisans unemployed I This is horrible reading, especially when we picture their being daily fed by charity. Do we really know in this colony what want is ? We very much doubt it, or the utter recklessness shown as to how the future is to be met would not be so glaring. With different fads of our different; statesmen, the working classes live in a. fool's paradise. When out of work they seek the Government and demand a rate of pay far beyond what they can legitimately earn : If the supposed breadwinners take a jaunt to another colony, the family call upon the Charitable Aid Board to support them; If men consume all their earnings in drink and get sick they immediately apply for admission to the hospital. For the support of all these the thrifty and industrious are taxed!
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Manawatu Herald, 7 September 1893, Page 3
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144Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 7 September 1893, Page 3
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