Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identiccal. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4099, 28 April 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identiccal. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1892.

The advancement of the civilised ivorld in material comfort, in arte, sciences, education, in efforts at improved law-making, has as yet brought no rest to mankind at large. The old feuds between tribe and tribo, country and country, are giving place to ware of words and deeds between class and class, betweeuoneinterest and another. The tendency of the age, with its rapid means of intercourse and communication, has indeed been to draw together the peoples of the world, making them less inclined to cut each otnur's throats upon somo trifling pretext, but this communication has also given free currency to those snbver-. sive and wild theories, which, carried into practice, can only end in the upsetting of the practical working ties between energy, capital, and labour. The relation of mum to tuum, em u bodied in the Ten Commandments and the earliest laws of any state rising from B;vagedora, have received a rude shock of late years from the advancement of these theories, which are based on the assumption that legislation can interfere with the rights of property. The history of legislation in its relation to industry and the development of a country's resources has not been a happy one—according to Buckle, the best legislation has been, the abrogation of its former acts—in fact the invariable effect of the interference of tbe legis* lature with the economio laws, the observance of which guide a country forward, has been to hamper and retard the advance of that country in material piosperity, But the vox po]mli now invariably calls on Government to meddle in this, that, and every contingency that may arise, with a childish reliance on its fatherly power to arrango and control tho fine threads which guide all commercial intercourse—a Government too often representative of a congeiie of talkers, lawyers, and faddists with a Small spriukling of practical business men, We are in danger of losing that independence of character which made men of our forefathers, giving backbone to'their colonising actions, becoming instead serfs, to this or that political influence which may be dragged out of its legitimate vocation to meddle with industrial issues,