THE LABOR QUESTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 214, 17 July 1879, Page 2

THE LABOR QUESTION.

To the Editor of the AVaibaba?a Daily

Masterton, July 14th, 1879. Sir,—There is a lofty saying that the Spaniards of old were wont to engrave upon their Toledo blades; "never draw

ne without reason, never sheathe me with* rat honor. Pacienca,—ln your issue of the 4th inst., a cooked side of bacon branded on ihe southern rind W. H., appeared for jonsumption. Weil, tho' I have a very iiappy constitution. I could not swallow a morsel of it. A genuine slice of old English bacon was inserted like a wedge near the bottom of the piece, but hb I feared it might have a rancid flavor from contact with the other, I let it wedge. A French cook would tell W H. to rub into his bargain a litle molasse treacle. That glorious cheat, ambition, has cheated him into attempting to prepare a savoury meal in this epicurean age, of one dietic article, Would he now be so'gracious as to sweeten his bacon and cook us a literary Salmagundi, or would he soar higher in his scientific'department, and piesent us a dish of soojie. As soojie is a mystificated food, that professes to raise the dead, I trust that should he succeed, he would have the discretion not to raise the Old Harry. " Fas est de hoste mentiri" seems to be his motto; it is a bad one. There is nothing more beautiful than the truth, when well told ; and as coming events cast their shadows before, I would inform that I believe the march of civilisation will gradually reach the stations. In a semi-state, it has already reached a station about 5 miles from Masterton, the one I have just left, There, a man is comfortably housed, and well fed, No tin pannikin to drink his tea from ; he has a whole mug to himself. By me, this was appreciated highly, for J was tired of kissing station tin. No crowding of all hands on a bench with barely swallowing room, He has the complete control of a stool while replenishing the inner man. In the middle of the seat of those stools, is a crescent shaped hole, which shape, phonetically, is the type for important, of improve, so I always deemed I had an important business before me when I sat on one of them, and felt very much improved upon relinquishing it. As regards heavy drinking, I would refer him to Leiberg's (the celebrated chemist) causes. My favorite tipple is fruit drink. The moment my fantastic toe (my watertights weigh five pounds) enters an hotel they begin concocting something delicate; they are in the habit of doing this for my class. " Troja fuit. Troja est. "-But I do not mean to talk of Troy, but of Wellington ; I will start for there to-day, and as I gravitate my cylinder in that direction, shall I tell you of the lustrous radiation that the mountains emit from their diadems of frost-work, and other things that may happen to come under my cognizance. It may appear a gigantic flight, from a swag to a mountain, but not when the respect due to mine is taken into consideration. My swag has seen the world. When there, shall I tell you of those who are imprisoned, kicked, dined, feted, lauded, and sainted? No, not the least, they would be too numerous to mention. Shall I tell you of our governing men, who like W.H., are respectable hard working cultured and self-denying. How, when shortly after debate they seize a tin panikin of hot tea, gracefully blow the tea logs to "ne side and with a heavonly smile sip with complacency. How they boil they own "billy" and that they walk meditating into the House with their in one hand "billy" and a chunk of bread and mutton wrapped up, in an Hansard in tbeother. Or shall I give you their phorendescription, I am fully equal to it, I once ological courted a little kitchen maid and we worshipped the playful God in the sculeryhence my knowledge of skulls,shcwould not have me, she said I was beneath her and'l am Adonis of sft. lOin. looking down on her bewitching 4ft. 2in., I could not understand it. Had she said so to W.H., I dare say I could have found a reason; shall 1 tell you that all the cits are clever sj much so that the near sighted will assure you from actual observation of the visibility of the air and the infinity of the star dust that the steam tramway is a mighter epic than the Ililad and that our commonest men could laugh even Vergl and Tasso to scorn. Shall I tell you how man here permitted by the divine afflatus has overcone the fierce elements within his own nature and mastered the enemies that raged without. That the great work of re, creation is hero to be seen, that the omnepotence of the unanimous efforts of moral and intellectual beings has moderated the ferocity of the climate, and placed an interdict even upon the earthquake itself. And that the collective combination of this portion oi the human race with its industry at the base and its wisdom at the top, has transformed this once windy, rainy, scorched and flooded shore into as fair a city as was ever dreamed of by an Arabian storyteller, that here, can be seen contentmentdriving in the carriage of prosperity, stc. I finish by dismissing W.H. with this advice, if he will enter that wonderland the realms of thought let him take a back seat therein and let him not dare to ipproach its varied huedexquisite offspring thought expressed but be grateful that lie may gaze at it over the rim of his tin Miiikin, and let him bear in mind that all mimals partake of the nature of the food ihey eat and reflect on the amount of nutton he has swallowed away in thai ' respectable" form of his and also on the neekness of the sheep and be humble aclordingly, Yours, &c, G. Whulikins,