MEAN TACTICS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 50, 10 March 1894, Page 11

MEAN TACTICS.

We (Faii-play) have heard New Z ialand cracked up over and over again as the colonyabove all the others in the group, .that af-, . fords the best opportunity for the man who is willing to work to make a good living, and it has also been claimed that if he had a few pounds to go on with, he was sure to get along. We have claimed since our inception that in Wellington there was a rapidlygrowing plutocracy whose object was to enslave the toiler, and if possible to block his rising from the station which either misfortune or luck had placed him in. The following anecdote, for the truthfulness of which we can vouch, is an illustration of an argument that money and money alone, rules roost in the little city of Wellington. One, of the employes of a big butchering establishment in Wellington who had worked long anti faithfully for the firm which employed him,, but who looked forward to the time when he" could run his own business, and vulgarly speaking, “be his own boss,” recently sent in his resignation and declared his intention.' to set up in business for himself. The resignation was accepted, and congratulations offered, but note the after play. The minute this enterprising young party attempted toi establish a route and sell meat to such cos-’ tomers as he thought would patronise him" he was followed to every house by a salesman of the firm with which he had formerly been connected, who offered to sell at any price below his, and even to yive avny the meat*-' rather than that he should get the. custom. When it is taken into consideration that thrf house that did this is a wholesale house and that in-all probability a large portion of the meat sold would have been bought from them,' it seems a gratuitous bit of malice to try and crush out a young tradesman. He has oar sympathies, and those of most fair-minded people who believe in the principal, of faSar 1 play and the proverb “ Live and let live.”