AS OTHERS SEE US.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 27 June 1884, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US.

An Australian oxcharige says:—"There are two leaders of public opinion in Maoriland, and it is interesting to their utterances. One of the Sir George Grey, and tho other Sir William Fox. Tho one ii the ladvooato of reform iu the Land-laws, and the other thoN.Z. apostle of Total Abstiiienco and defender of tho Faith against.thq advanc ing tide of Froethought, Sir George gives his hearors a vivid desoriplion of tho appalling misery existing at the prosont time in tho great cities of Britain. Ho stated that 41 per cent, of the population of Glasgow lived in dwellings and hovels of one room for each family. In the parks and public gardens of London ho had scon hundreds of mon and women who had no homes and no money, sleeping undor tho trees in miserably cold weathor, He had seen poor young girls, in thin cotton dresses, spending the night on seats and benches in the open air lindor the shadow of Buckingham Pulac9. The Ancient Britons had no such hardship's to onduro. Tho very poorest pfthem.liad huts to sloop in,aud froodum-lo hunt and fish in the'woods and streams. He attributed the the present misery and distress to bad land laws, and warned-his hearers against perpetuating the.system in 'New Zoaland. Sir Win. Fox, leciurin? in defenco of Christianity against Free* thought, described a horse. ,of a ; different color .altogether. Misery and crime, according .to Sir ■William, were to be , found in Pagan lands, and, happiness and virtue in Christian England. He intended soon to 'take "a'trip to the Old Country, and on landing he would be surrounded with innumerable proofs of the advantages of Christianity, Such had boen its effect in humanising tho people of that in .the great metropolis he would find on every side of him hospitals, lnnalic asylums, charitable institutions, missionary societies, and even a house of refuge and hospital for home-. less dogs; This was enough to convince , hiui that Christianity'was a better investment than Freethought, Any misery thore might be in the Old Country Sic, William attributed entirely to the' acoursed drink'.' The two \ worthy knights of Maoriland have the trne remedy between them. Break up the monopoly of big estates and stop, the drink traffic, and the euro is effected, It matters little whether men and women are: Christians or thinkers bo long as they behave themselves. A good Christian and a good Freethinker will go to the same place when they die. God careß forihom All, Sir William, although you, may not (be* lieveit " ' '\\ J " " '. • Christian or Pagan, Turk'br Jew/ Mormon or Anohorite— I ' Distinctions that seem vast to yon, . Are in His Bight,'" }