The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3597, 26 August 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1890.

At thisjunoture it is the duty of a settler who hopes to prosper in (Lis Britain of the south, if he has any doubtat nil as to whether his nameis : on the roll, to at once register his claim, It very frequently happens that at the last moment a country resident desires to exercise his rote and finds that he ia debarred from doing so by non-registration, In large centres oi population it is unnecessary to ory register I register 11 register 111 because" in such places there are local organisations which make a business of registering everybody wha can be put on the roll, but in remote farms and stations settlers must not trußt toothers to register for them, but send in their own claims. It is evident that the organisations which exist in towns, the trades unions, the Knights of Labor, and other societies, ejive an immense advantage to the work of : carrying on an election campaign, This particular campaign which the 89ttlers now have to fight is one of exceptional importance, as issues are now at stake which were never before submitted to the people of this colony, In old times m bad many a party figEt between town and country, but un this occasion there is a new party line which arrays the hoycotteruon tho one side and the friends of liberty on the other. Colonists have to fight for freedom at the coming election, the boycott is coming near the door of evon up-country settlers, and however much they rosy desire to avoid the isßiie it will be foreed upon them by secret organisations, 'J.ho. general election will, we trust, record a true opinion on the issue, but in order that bucli an opinion may be declared every settler in the district should give a vote, We have faith that country settlers still cling to the traditions of the past, under which

England became the greatest nation in tbe world, and her colonies have l grown up worthy of the illustrious parent from which they sprang. We look to such settlers to save New Zealand at this juncture from the Anarchists, the Socialists, tbo Single Taxcrs, and the Boycotters, who are desolating what ought to be the finest and freest, country in tbe world, But such! settlers will bo powerless to help ihej Colony in her liooj: of peed, unless! they register their claim to vote, and exercise them when.tliu proper time comes. Let them register, ajid flp if they'like they can Bay ''slop," or "go on" to the enthusiastic reformers who want to place all the tarn of tbe Colony on the backs of tbe landholders. We have no doubt of th> issue if the men who are toiling on the the vet) who arc pweatjuj the

experts wliich keep tho Colony from sinking, remember tliat they bayo a duty to perform and register their olairaa 'to vote at the coining general election, : , ~