The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3804, 7 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891.

Tna adherents to the Ministerial party in this district can no longer be termed liberals. They have hoisted the black flag, avowed themselves as Enigbts of Labor, and pledged themselves to land nationalisation and a few other eradilies. Radicals they may be, socialists they undoubtedly are, but " liberals " they are not. It is, we think, about time that " a liberal association " were organised in this district to oppose revolutionary changes and to protect the interests of bona fide settle* s. Without some organisation of this kind the radicals have a big pull over the genuine liberals of the district. Settlers indeed are v&ry much to blame in having allowed a ftegret organisation like the Knights of Labor to strip them of the political rights to wbiGh they were entitled by their numerical preponderance in the community, and if they arc unwilling to make the necessary effort to regain that prestige which they gave away they deserve to be dragged at the wheels of the Ministerial party, and scourged with the progressive land tax, the inquisitorial income tax, and all the other plagues with which they are threatened. Why don't they organise f The radicals of the district are active and vigilant, why should the liberals be supine and careless!

Bishop Julius has the confidence of the Trade and Labot Council of Christchurch, and has been preaching socialiam to the members of it as something higher ani better than individualism. It is somewhat singular, however, that the good Bisbop himself is a splendid specimen of the individualism which he deprecates. Still hm Socialism does not run on the same lines quite as the Socialism of the Unions. Trade unionism is not, he declares, in the direction of universal brotherhood, He has no sympathy with boycotting, and he has not a particle of sympathy with the Queensland shearers. What the Bishop does believe in is the application of the Golden Rule to all affairs of life, and amongst all sorts and conditions of men. We quote the close of his sermon in bis own words, which shows that there is not much danger to any class in the community to be apprehended from the Socialism of Bishop Julius. " But I have no faith in socialism apart from Christ. I can conceive of a State perfectly organised, with »o quarrel between capital and labour, with the State directing, municipal bodies controlling, and all going on well throughout the country, and 1 can see such a State permeated pith such dire selfishness that with all the liberty there is no true happiness. For, after all, man is beVered from within and not from without. In the greater developments of a higher life, a noble enterprise, and a most tine unselfishness lies our true happiness our contempt for the world, its strifes and its oar. s. In conclusion. It is not you nor I that will see the day that is coming. Changes are coming, and coming

quickly, indeed. Our children may see them, and so let me point out to you there is a work higher than fighting for short hours and and long prices, and that is the work of disciplining and training your own children. 1 have had a great experience in London schools and in chose in Ballarat. I have seen much here, and 1 cannot help feeling strongly that the great working class, if 1 may call it so, does not fully recognise the responsibility of training the young men and the young girls that are growing up. In our children lie our hopes of better titr.es. We do not merely want to send them out into the world fairly educated, but we should recognise our responsibility in regard to their moral and religious training. The schoolmaster is a good man, God bless him, but he canuot do what you can do. We turn our children out into the Sunday School if we want an afternoon nap. The Sunday school is not bad, though it might be better, but it cannot do what you can do. Unless we plant deep in these young lads' hearts the principles of honesty, steadfastness and purity, we may look a long while for all our Trades Unions, before we see that which we hope to see."