TO THE WORKING MEN VOTERS AT THE COMING ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 945, 9 December 1881, Page 2

TO THE WORKING MEN VOTERS AT THE COMING ELECTION.

[To the Editor of the Daily.| Siu, — Fellow men! Do not be misled to-day by that false and long abused cry of working man's friend. Believe me, the working man in Now Zealand never had, never will have, and I am glad to say does not want, any other or better friend than himself, for if the working man is true to himself he does not want either ulr Renall or anybody else for a friend. The man that employs labor, call him what you like, a squatter, a capitalist, or whatever ho may bo, is neither a particuliir friend of the working man (except, perhaps, at election times, if he—the employer—happens to be a candidate for public honors) nor his sworn enemy. Capital and labor are to each other in the same connection, as the renowned Siamese Twins were, that is to say they are both depending on each other for their existence. If they are isolated from each other both will suffer and languish. We have only to look around us to many of of the new settlements in this country, where from ouo reason or other these elemonts of mutual propriety, capital, and labor have been isolated from each other to find the truth of the above assertion. It. is to be reurotted that an old colonist like Mr Renall, and a man that knows, or ought to know, better, could not find any other and more honest stand for his political platform than to take ud and try to deceive his fellow men with such an abused and played out device—working man's friend. Surely Mr Benall must he played out himself, and it is high time for him to withdraw froni the political arena. I am, &c, Argus.