THE PEOPLE'S "INALIENABLE RIGHTS."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2187, 7 January 1886, Page 2

THE PEOPLE'S "INALIENABLE RIGHTS."

It ta tieeii raged (says the "European Mail) that game preserves and deer runs should be broken up and handed over to tfrpeoris'■ „> their inalienable n?ht. Well, what if they were ao handed fe?.' i 0 of Wf' that tn?y wfewir tin tut of th»

passed from the "usurpers" to tlioso wlfo , have " be&u robbed" of them make them l'euuporative and .profitable 1 We thiuk ■ not. And, we venture to thiuk - that, if " ' the lands wove surrendered to the ■ tillers of the soil," it would not be veiy long before the aforesaid " tillers" would reproach their benefactors with endowing • . them with a White Elephant. PjAaps, thorfore, we shall never have anlfleal progross while there are ears thar are willint; to bo tickled by misleading formulas. It may, perhaps, never' Wu a, -i occurred to those who pre hungry forfflti'!' that the land which pays as deer-stalking\ • grounds and so on would be utterly unprofitable as'" holdings," and this, for the simple reason that the skill of our agricul >' tural implement makers haa not up Jk' now been equal to the task of constructing a plough capable pf taming - up, the, rock that underlies the half-foot, gives birth to. the fodder and the thistfflflK upon which the deer thrive, As" slioojflßffe ing estates" they pay, and minister ifW many ways to the profit of those who are engaged in looking after them, but cut up into farms or even grazing ground for cattle they would be an utter failure, It " pays" Parnell and Chamberlain and the rest of that ilk to try and demonstrate the contrary, and it is because, in this sense, the one is helping the other to lower- our standard of self-effovt that it may be hoped the country will emphasise its disgust at . proceedings such as these by rendering one dr other of the great parties of the State strong enough to be independent of Parnellistic influence. If we can only discredit this, we shall be in a fair way to restore an equilibrium thatjias been sadly disturbed by bluster anffin. tngue. (r*