Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4290, 9 December 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892.

FIRST EDITION.

Mr Coleman Phillips is a clever man, and is wont to enunciate original ideas in a very outßpoken and occasionally in a very irritating manner. Very many people disagree with him, or rather be disagrees with them, and we can quite understand why the South Wairarapa County Council, brimming over with love and affeotion towards that gigantic leech, the Wellington Benevolent Sooiety, feleoted Mr Coleman Phillips to represent it at its Board, The record of Mr Coleman Phillips at the.first meeting will probably satisfy the County Connoil. He rubbed the Trustees very much the wrong way, accused them of manufacturing pauperism, and fell foul of the Labour Bureau.

Perhaps he showed the mettle in him most, when he proposed to plant the British workhouse on New Zealand soil. Thanks toLiberal Ministries, we have a sort of workhouse relief now in this colony; but we don't call it by that name, and when Mr Culeman Phillips hoisted the "Union" flag, the meeting was very much shocked and disgusted. Still, the Wellington Benevolent Institution is, in its way, a gigantic Union relieving 1,269 person's daily, and is as big a manufacturer of pauperism db the biggeat workhouse in the United Kingdom. Those vast charitable organisations in a new country like this are a disgrace to us. They are the outcome of bad government, and the growth of pauper institutions which twenty years ago were unknown in the land and unneeded, The Government, fighting for high wages for a few, disturbs the natural law of supply and demand, and leaves thousands stranded with no wages at all,

Were there no interference with labour questions on the part of the Government, and a rational administration of waste lands, things would right themselves; and the army of paupers would dissolve and become absorbed in tho general prosperity of the country. Mr Phillips told ono or two home truths about the Labour Bureau. During the most prosperous years this: Colony has known we had no labour bureau and did not require one. Men found their own level in the open market. Now the public has to pay the cost of inferior labour being carted from one end of the Colony to the other, and men instead of finding their own level expect the bnreau lo discover it for them. We believe Mr Coleman Phillips is correct in stating that private employers don't like bureau tpen and that good hands don't care to mix with thorn, If as we before said the Govern,weut leave labgur ftlgee wd

,6ell plenty oE bush land, as of old, at ten shillings an acre, giving a freehold title right sway, and spending the land fund on road making, there would be a marvellous revival of prosperity in the Wellington Provincial distriot which would put an end to the pauper and bureau nonsense which is demoralising both town and country. We have to thank Mr Coleman Phillips at any rato for disturbing the equanimity with which the Wellington Benevolent Institution relieves over a thousand-paupers. He will at least make people think over this question, and perhaps they will yet come to the conclusion that the Government doctor, by treating symptoma instead of removing causes, is fos'ering the diseasn.