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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue XIII, 19 December 1892, Page 2

A MISERABLE attempt is made to justify the appointment of the new justices by linking them with the magic name of the working man of New Zealand, We areinot altogether sure that tho working men of this Colony will lake this as a compliment; However the lion's skin in the shape of the working man's oloak is thrown over the shouldersof some ass selected by the party in power for judicial honors and we are bidden to be silent because though the bray be unmistskeable, we r,re supposed to be terrified and struck dumb.by the leonine covering. Though so much is said about making working men Justices of the Pence practically few such are made. In this district for example the Government have appointed a contractor, a photographer, astorekeeper, a farmer, a chemist, a Woodroofe aqd a shoemaker. Even the lust named is, we understand, a master man, and not in any way dependent upon wages. The working mxu element in the affair is all bogus, Conservatives would gladly welcome working mm on the benoh provided that t'leir conduct, character, and intelligence qualified them to disohnrge judicial duties, There is no fear of the working man; the people who trade on his name, who steal his coat, who climb on his shoulders to place and. power aro the onnsio he dreaded, Thereare plenty of old J notices of the Peace on this benoh who are liberals add have been liberals all their lives but we hare not heard one of them speak in terms ot satisfaction of the new appointment?, The old liberal justices, wo honestly believe, blush for many of the new comers,