The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 30 July 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1890.

We have to Acknowledge the receipt of the first issue of a new labor organ published at Auokland under the stern name of " Justice" as " the

voice of the toilers." The bed rock of the new,publication is declared to bo two simple principles: (I) Whit God created for the use of all should be utilized for the benefit of all. (21 What is produced by the individual belongs rightfully to the individual, There is perhaps no more difficult task than to interpret and apply simple principles such as those upon which this new literary venture is based. "Justice" is the avowed organ of land nationalisation and claims; -that the earth, the soil, is created for the use of all. But what does the all imply. Jf a hundred thousand poverty ?trioken Russians or one million out ol the teeming millions of human beings in China came to these shores under the simple principle laid down by " Justice," and claimed that as God had created this fair land amongst others for the use of all it should be utilized for their benefit,' what in suoh a case would be tho voice of the Aucklaud toilers? Would they stand by the principle,; would thej admit the legical claim of ten housand Mongolians to mingle amongst them? We need not ask sufih. a question, the voice of the toiler would at once interpret the simple prinoiplo against such an invasion. We fear our Auckland friends somewhat resemble a small i sect in America which once established itself on two simple principles, viz, (1) God has given the earth to his people, (8) lft» are his people. Simple principles will not stand the strain of every day wear and tear. In the Auckland provjiip e, jipdreds of thousands of apres of l»nd are obtainable now at about ton shillings an acre for purohase, or can be leased for sixpence au acre, Why

do not the people who throng Auckland and proclaim through" Justice" thejr earth hunger take tip the waste lauds lying a|S fheir disposal ? Why do not they help themselves, and thus justify the Providence, in which they profess a faith, in helping them? If, instead of talking nonsense about simple principles which they would be the first to denounce, wow such a contingency to arise as we have' suggested, they put tlwir own shoulders to the wheel, they would be in a better position. We believe that the deluded Aucklander is wont to fancy that ijj some mysteriously Sir George Grey will Ijejp tlaState to help him toattain a terrestrial paradise without mon'By, without price, and without effort on his own part. He calls on Juptolphejphiin and waits for a millennium. ' ' \