WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4103, 4 May 1892, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1892.

Can it be due to the communistic ideas uf the modern advanced liberal, those ideas which relate to property and the necessity for scattering it around a little more for the general weal, that we read in every daily paper of so much pilfering, robbing, so much amateur appropriation ? It is quite reasonable to suppose that a mind of a loose or radical tendency should feel on hearing on all sides that it is quite lime for all accumulations of property to be brought back to the rightful owners—the people-a powerful inclination toputintopractice this teaching at once and practically without waiting for the milleninm of general distribution. However it is, there is no doubt that the timo when one could leave the barn door unlocked, could put the key under the mat or leave a bed-room door open at a caravanserai, has passed for this colony, just as muchaa the time has passed for leaving an orchard or garden without the protection of a bull-dog. Some of those fellows must be getting into piacticoin this colony to whom PuM refers, somewhat in this fashion : " What are you going to do with your three acres and ut cow when you (jet .1,?" "Nothing I" "Not work on the land?" "No; I'm going to grab some other fellow's things when he's worked on it!"