Cause and EfFect.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1649, 4 March 1886, Page 2

Cause and EfFect.

Judge Macguire, lecturing on "The) Increase of; Crime." at San Ffanciscovon Sunday, November 15th said : •• Millions of men have already Been displaced •by inventions, and the field, of invention; promises still results. Every year the 'owners; of tne lands of our country are; enabled to dispense with more and more of the labouring classes and these latter,' having no longer any place to fill m the economy of industry; join the innumerable caravans of tramps and -pass through the gradations of' which 1 hayo sp.ojcen until they become scourges of tlie, society which tney onpe upheld. Some* thing must be done with them. They ! must be e'.ther exterihinated,' supported, ' or given an opportunity to support theim selves. This cause of crime is perhaps the most prolific of all at trie present day, and like the others it is entirely within the power of society to remove lit. Not by giving them a living. Not by dividing the property of Others with them, bnf by giving theln a chance to produce a. living from the bounties of Nature, which are held m trust by society for the equal use and benefit of 'all. Give them access to the land which God has freely given for the support of all and compel them to produce a living from it or suffer the natural consequences of refusing. The natural resources of our country are ample for the comfortable support of ten times our population.