The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 19 June 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19.

r i'ae perusa lof c*. 1 i>ii; new.-. must convince .New Zeamnders that Mew Zealand U rather a good place to live in, and hr.il the conditions normally e.\isting in many countries tiro impossible in this colony. The plague in India wipes uui in one montii several timed the population of Xew Zealand. YVe don't grasp such a news item because we can't reaiise ii. tSueii a catastrophe euuld only he real- , ised by the passengers of a boat who eante to Xew Zealand to lind the whole population lying dead. imagine the horrors ol i'aiiiine in China., where hunger wipes out tens of thousands at the prosent time, and lias before the present visitation wiped out millions. Famine is a normal condition in some part of the great Empire always. We lind that the thousands of Australians who rushed to South Africa when a boom was threatening are now being repatriated, it is a comment on rubies especially, and 011 the prosperity 01 iSouLh Africa generally. The greed that see* in cheap labor the fattening of already sinfully objse bunking accounts is the reason lor this repatriation. indeed, greed is at the base of most of the trouble being experienced in carious parts of the world. jloth India and Ulina are rich beyond our dreams. 'i he wealth of China is so great that the famine could be made impossible by the generosity ol' the great. The treasure of India is so enormous that a combination of India's i .< li «». u could clear up the conditions thai, ln.-.e phigue perennial. ' -cd .ml tlie ij-'ip".;*-aiuv, which is the I'tsVil 01' it. aiv the.

causes taat are killing milli ns of Asiatics every year. Agvarian outrage* have again occurred in Ireland. Here again greed is the cause. J iiigc esavies a 0

held b\ the territorial lords and .Ireland, one of the mo.>t prolitic islands in the would. seethes wiiii levolt and poverty because of it. It- v umwv intended that one miui ,- li ouid live m . Lo\j. au his li'e .-iiotaiiiii!;- existence 01: p.>t;iiocs v hiif; i'. peer 5},.,. a, tld.'Kjo r-'.vs,

v.'iiicii. he rarely >ees in a vOioury u'hee * he does not Jive. ike peasant who revolts is a nioon-bghung rullian. Jhe peer is a gentieman. That.—and greed—is the diileieuee. Greed again in the American "Union'' murders. For again it appears that one man is willing to commit countless murders in the name of fair-play to the worker. The extraordinary point about these murders is the "conversion" of the alleged murderer, | ■ which seems to give "the idea tlu'.t Or- ! I chard's greed robbed him of his brains and that, he may be a criminal lunatic. Greed again in Germany, where the Kaiser has stumbled across the gambling e v il —not to ;-peak of moral leprosy—among his Army otlicers. Further greed :n Melbourne where there have been jewellery robberies and an unspeakably foui AiuvucT of a dV.iU'iiid merchant, Apparently tiiere is no limit to the crimes that may be committed in the name of mone\. Greed in a smaller way in Xew Zealand where the sneak theif is at large, especially on the wharves. Greed that results in the raids on <; two-up" schools, greed that sends thousands of pounds to Tasmania every month hoping for the return of a big "divi." A man can wear only one suit of clothes at a time and eat one meal. His needs are low and his greeds ar.> many. Greed Ims not. the same awfi l el'feel in Xew Zealand as in older countries because of the f"Wncss of the people, but it is here ia a smaller degree. We are not famishing, anyway, and our unionists haven't gone as far as to slay anybody, and the plague hasn't enough dirt to put up a big iighi, and landlordism is getting a set-back', and nobody has been murdered for diamonds. In fact, New Zealand is rat,her a desirable place at the present moment.