THE SKY IS CROFTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1715, 20 June 1884, Page 3

THE SKY IS CROFTERS.

report of the Scotch Crofter's Commission says" Tho severance of the laboring classes from the benefits and enjoyments of property, which is a large element of civilisation, morality and public order, and their precarious and dangerous condition as dependants on capital as mero rcceiptants of wages is a queition engaging tlio refleoof those who reason and govern. There is a larger, richer, raoro' active and enthusiastic Celtic community outside than inside Scotland. Those outside' transmit tho affections and passions of their race with greater warmth than those inside," The Pall Mall Gazetto severely criticises the report and pronounces it " audacious," inasmuch as it " favors agrarian revolution, strikes at tho chief feature of our present social organisation and describes tho, condition in which the immense majority-of citizens spend their lives as 1 dangerous and precarious.'" " Tho report," it continues, " teaches the lesson that to expatriate the malcontent only increases the difficulty.' The next generation of liish and Scotch abroad will liavo acquired ascendency over thoso at home, But the timo is coming when , tho English abroad will also exercise ascendancy over those at home. Only ■ a time of danger and distress is needed to convince the foes of England how vast a reserve of English strength lies • dormant in the New Snglands which encircle the world."