THE COMING REVOLUTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 4 September 1890, Page 2

THE COMING REVOLUTION.

l&Wty. OqUt&s l&.tluftefttn.

Owing to the inolemenpy. o! the weather, the attendancVat the Theatre JJoyi)) last evening to hear the addre^oj[;Mr %'% Sydney, .on •'! The porting fiero)iitii| op |e,l;wd.and; labor QtruggK I was • exceedingly 'mqdwate, yJm Bixiy persona,; -bowe'Veri who, &»<} thetempeßt were amply rewarded, and were treated ; to ah ploquent \ alia jiscourse on the; 1 ing theday. speaker, and by his dramatio pathos dnd'enthusjasin' lgseVno timS ill gainirig'jthe fullest .'attention of 'his In the absence 'of Mr A. who was to, have presided,., was ocoupied.by;Mr J. 6. Ma'okay, who, after a few-observations on the relations of capital ■ to_ labor, intro, duced the speaker, •" • .."?■

■ -Collins; was; received with ■- ■'■■ cheers. In apologising■'for: the . uh- '.: i : avoidable; absenee ; of Mr-Renall, :(' hetook occasion to thank Mr Maokay V for his kindness in 'coneenting to presido. Ho regretted sincoreiy that v the unpvopitioua atato of the weather. . should haw possibly .prevented wflfc from being.present. He believed' aflf this period the subject of his address ■ .was',the;most 'important:; that' "could" ':-■. engage the attention of the people!;; ;jTne .■Btroggley* was in no jrjspeots^Jnew. It 'did' not begiifin ■ on'-the • Continent of Australia, began soj soon: si>v;t|e ( labjjjiiigi,.olassea a (air He bolievedT the struggle'<woiild continue untilthe laborers ;recoM , ■'.- their;labour'entitledHh'enVtq/ He -'. then referred to the of tut London dock strikeand its effeofc lipoWthe people ofErigland, which he contended was the .commencement of the' existing colonial! jtroubifesl Since ; that time the struggle>had continued...'; strike lift.ed up the bo.ttom*grade;o.t:society" it would ; Hft. : f ,ol(. above it, 1 ' Capitalists,jn.the;sliape'of.qpereof;/; : lancT and Bhips, 'bad>co'miined.a'nd ; . " formed an assdoiEttion in - the; colbntea. I witb the totally atimhilaUng thoj labod'r f b rganisatiphs;:.' OapitallatjL ; !at Home were :- striko, togivea blow'to.tihe labour 'organ!-' sations in;Australia,,and.thisjrp why I s .' ' they f ■ askfcd, should these .struggles take place?. ThereWust.beacausej people would not be dissatisfied for nothing, ThOjlaborer.who produced wealth did not got a fair share, of. his.production. He jw practically being robbed, The ' ' rights of capital were the rights ot labour. There was, he contended, a cause and an effect. Labour was cause, and capital the effect, largo gulf between capital and labour" would be fillod up by calm resolution, He then referred to thomonopolisatlon of land and capital in the Old Country, instancing the Duke 1 ot Westminister, who he believed to be worth an income of'£l,ooo,ooo. a year, This lord received £IOO an hour for.doing notk- ; ing.; Someone must therefore go short for doing the work. He would urge the establishing of a platform, the first principle of whichiwould, be'.that all should work, In the second place tho man,who worked hardest at most useful and most dangerous employment ' " should receive the highest pay. 's■ .voice; Bughfallihg I) The rate of wagesshonldthen be graded downwards. Those who did no work should stand out of the pale and starve. For the'last twenty years the working' clashes were boing educated and taught theirrightsindprivileges.jß?ference . was here made to proportions of land held by capitalists and labourers in tho Onitod Kingdom. Th 0.40,000,000 inhabitants of England wero owned by 12,000 people, to whom they were slaves, Coming to the Colonieß, in New South Wales during the three.years forty people.had died. - leaving between four and five millions of money, whilst for the same period thirty or forty thousand- had died worth nothing excepting their - bad debts. He further maintained that .-, the population of this colony had no', bold upon the soil they cultivated, Men werasweating their life's blood to enrich the capitalists. In New Zealand at the present time the land was owned by comparatively few people, as.shown by a recent Government .-. statement,;The ..wprds,.of;Shelley, ; written .sixty ''years agoj * "were now appropriate. There appeared to hte' " three classes of, the community, tnT. aristobraoy, the.labourer, and the pauper, the first .'and last af /which' were being maintajned by the.seoqnd. After .referring toiWreeeht investigations of a commission in England, as tb the low rate of wages and oppression", and;to the fact that New Zealand was going in the same direction • as tho; Mother Country, the speaker .'■ resumed his seat amidst, enthusiastic [ applause. Mr Hogg proposod a vote of thanks to the lecturer for his able and, eloquent speech, and suggested if'not inconvenient, the address he repeated on Friday evening. _ The' Chairman seconded the proposition, which was carried by acolamation, <

The lecturer intimated that lie would be quite willing to repeat his address on Friday evening so long as " there wasi a good audience. He- . would suggest that tho lecture bg J - free to the public In; conclusion' y (hanked those present for their kind attention throughout! .''■'/};■:■■ A vote of thanks to tho chair concluded the proceedings,''' ' :