Superficial Piety.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 163, 15 June 1883, Page 3

Superficial Piety.

The Grey Rivet Argus says : It has been a most unusual thing that an important mail should be delivered here on one d»y, and that the public should have to wait until the next day for. the delivery of it. Yet that was the state of affairs yesterday. Mr Caldera is a pious man, who has a conscience that rebels against Sunday work, and of course our mail was not sorted; We have no doubt that .however tendersfooted his conscience may be he will read his daily paper on the Monday morning without any qualm of conscience, knowing at the same time very well it could not be provided, without Sunday labor; he will alßo,perhapß,eat his buttered roll that he' knows could only be prepared £or his palate by , the midnight vigil of one of those wrom the laws of society compel to work during' the most unnatural hours for the gratification of those who can. afford to pay for the luxury.' So long as we can remember, the public of Grey mouth have never been subjected to the inconvenience they felt yesterday, and they are not likely to take kindly, to it now, no matter how moch it may go against the private feelings of anybody. ■ Business and piety do not always work m harness,. and if any enthusiast is desirous of making the experiment of mixing oil and water he should conduct his experiments m private, so that the public may not suffer.