ILL-ADVISED MINERS.
The Magistrate who addressed the iUadrised miners nf Waihi yesterday, • spoke truthfully when lie said that ] men who preferred guil to the main- j tenanco cf law and order were not heroes. The man who intimidates, brow-boats, and insults another because the other prefers honest work to impudent loafing is not a hero. He is not a Britisher. He is a menace to society. One may sympathise j with men who go to gaol, who go even to the stake fighting for some well-de-' fined principle of justice. But when individuals are so lost to self-respect that they forget their obligations to their wives and families, their obligations to tbo law, ai'd their obligations to the State, when they violate the principles of British justice and good government, they renounce evenclaim to human sympathy, and become , miscreants for whom no true subject of the Crown cxn ontcrlaln either pity or respect. WEATHER.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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154ILL-ADVISED MINERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 4
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