MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 3,000 Copies Daily. FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1904. A WARNING.
The young man Egan, who was before the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond,' has succeeded in escaping from the clutches of the law. The case has served to bring into prominence the fact that" when a person is brought before the Court on charges of this description there are misguided people in the community who run away with the idea that an attempt is being made to kick a man who is down. Anything in the direction of hounding a man and driving him to the committal of criminal practices would be vigorously condemned by us, but unfortunately numbers of people are totally unable to discern between the cases in which sympathy is needed and those in which it is absolutely wasted. The case against Egan will, it is hoped, act as a warning to the young men in this and other towns in the colony who do little or no work from one year's end to the other, and who are simply-living by their wits. Persons of this description serve no useful purpose in a community.. Their one aim in life is to avoid work, and in order that they may exist without it they are not .-overscrupulous as to the' means employed to accomplish that end. No country in the world affords greater opportunities for people making their-way. in life, than New Zealand, and it is therefore a sad
thing to find so many young men in this colony who not only have failed to map out for themselves a useful career, but are too lazy, to' earn an honest livelihood. If parents would instilinto the minds, 0f..-their" children the value of having some definite aim in life, and would educate them on those lines, Isew Zealand would then be able to say with America -that .she' had a small proportion of failures and few who slide downhill and. eventually join the : pauper, criminal or " submerged tenth " class. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7922, 30 September 1904, Page 4
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343MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 3,000 Copies Daily. FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1904. A WARNING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7922, 30 September 1904, Page 4
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