THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4301, 22 December 1892, Page 2

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1892.

The New Zealand Times, as becomes the Socialistic Organ of a Socialistic Ministry, rejoices in the establishment of a. State farm in the Hangitikoi I district; a farm whioh will, doubtless, cost the State a pretty penny, Still, 'tis money makes the State to go, and as long as the State has pocket money, it may as well spend it in State farms as in other directions. So we learn, for tho first time in nearly thirty years of colonial experience, that a State farm is a necessity of civilization, We are also told that it will spread through the country the people who are not wanted in the towns, that it will inorease the number of producers, and that it was owing to this Bystem of ..organised help that the desert of Utah.blossomed into fern tility, Possibly so, but there is, some evidence to show that the thrifty Mormon settlers, by using a limited number of wives as farm labourers, were enabled to oonquor the stubborn wilds at a Binall cost. Perhaps poly gamy will later on be added to'the socialistic programme of the Colony, However, one State farm is now established, and there will be more to follow. If these new institutions work out to the satisfaction of, the party in power, woi shall, in due time, be called upon to consider whether State farming should not altogether supersede'private agrioulture.. The socialistic balm ia working, and 'many, no doubt, look forward to the time when the State will not only own all the land id the Colony, but, will cultivate it as State, farms. In the sweetby-and-by men will not'think) act or work for themselves. Tho State-will think for them, : tell them , what to do and. feed and cloths them. We are getting well on to ths socialistic grade, first we have adopted ( co-operative labour, eeoooclly wfi li&Vo,

organised a Labour Bui eau,and thirdly we are beginning to establish State farms. ■- ; -

..; The only regret is that the developnient of these now ideas is accompanied, by,an.alarming/increase of pauperism in, the community, while ■ onr_ population has. been oil but stationary the numberof paupers has | been progressing with leaps and bounds. Each new project eeenis only to fertilise the weed crop in our I population. The old colonial spirit of self help and of. neighbourly help seems to be dying out. The State declares that it will provide for. the poor, the needy, the sick, aud theun- | employed, and tax the people for the ooßt of them. Private benevolence and good nature dn'os up under this change and those who once were ever 1 ready to help a lame dog over a stile are growing selfish and oallous.