The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 25 August 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1890.

In Melbourne the labor party for i long time past havo had it all their own way, and the responsibility for the present condition of employment in that city rests with it, There ten thousand men ape out of work, as many -mope are subsisting on precarious and illpqid employment, while twenty or thirty thousand, the aristocrats of tho party, aro exceedingly well paid, No doubt the sum divided in wages in marvellous Melbourne would beadequate, if more gepfireily distributed, to furnish a decent living for all, bi)t uqder .the iron rule of unionism thp weakest go to the wall, In our opinion workhouses will soon be a necessity in colonies like Victoria and New Zealand. The success or the partial success of the labor movement means the creation p'f large numbers of unemployed peoplp for wjiom t!)0 labor party make no provision. Next winter in Now Zealand we expect to see a? the result pf the present strike agitation, as the outcome ot a very large extent of direct apd indirect boycotting, a marked increase in tho number of destitute persons in this colony, We trust we may be wrong in our supposition and shall be only too glad to admit a year hence that ourprognofiticationhas been mistaken! Ifall that is being done now were true and right we would have no fear for the result, but wo

'cannot help thinking that "boycotting," although it may not be a legaf offence, is morally ft crime, and that, if so, those who commit such crimes must expect retributive justice to overtake them in some form or other. The trade and prosperity of any community dwindles pi droops under the shade of the boycott, ; even now the wage fund of the(3oJony is diminishing, but the labor party is too excited firing big guns from the quarter deck to discover this leak, Another unheeded sign is the general rise in the cost of living in a city like Wellington. The' artisan there congratulates himsejf ypon having added a shilling a day to'his rate of wages through the agency of unionism, but through the same agency hp will gradually discover that be has to pay

more for rent, rnoro 101' meat, moro Jor bread, and . more for groceries, The method by which tho price of any commodity it raised is no seorbtj everybody can use it, and wlnit is saiico for the goose is.Bauce for the gandor, Even organs-like-tlio Wellington Evening l'ost, which have advocated tho chums of the labor pm'ty, are beginning now to foresee tliat the result of tbo agitation which thuy have fostered will be a loss instead of a gain to the. working man and_ are. beginnings utter warning notes, Employers, too, aro beginning to organise, and in a short time the Secretary of the Maritime Council, "• the Napoleon" of the labor party, will meet the Secretary of, the Employers Association of New Zealand,"the Wellington "of the capitalist party, and terms no doubt will be arranged, but when this point is reached it will, wo believe, be found that labor is in a worse position than

it was at the commencement of tlio struggle, We do not expect that'the coming elections will help the labor party, becauso whilst psoplo ategiving way right and loft to direct and indirect threats- of boycott-, ..they bitterly resont this interference with

their personal liberty. Every man in the Colony who has been subjected to.this particular menace will vote dead against the labor party ate the" general election, The party has been making many enemies, more than any party which hopes to win a political campaign can afford to set up. The general election will go against the labor party, and thousands of working men will assist in bringing about this result,