Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1894. THE UNEMPLOYED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 March 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1894. THE UNEMPLOYED.

A paragraph which appeared yesterday in the columns of the Wairarapa iter is so-impudently mendaoious, aud» at the same time so mischievous, tHat it raiiy be asVell for. fclia sake of • the weaker brethren) 'to show its manifest absurdity. , f' a', man who bus tramped frotu- fiawke's Bay, to Maatertqn," so runs the paragraph, " informs us that station liolders are dismissing their men wholesale in the former-district. Hesmjs'tht'tUi is king done out of l notliinff but spite ajaimt the Government." The editor of-our..contemp6rttry,j \ye may- take it for granted, would not have permitted the opinion of this swagger to appear unless it bad Contained something to the discredit of the landowners against whom he appears tohave £h iucurabte bias.',. We will frankly confess tfat if suoh a stfp; as Is suggested hasten, taken by any station-holder, it merits reprobation.but even the- Wairarapa Star will allow that howevev grasping and hard-hearted the bloated "sboial ptstaof New Zealand may be,';they are not wanting in common sense; and to dismiss men- in order ! to spite .a Government would, hardly comraend itself as a sensible proceeding esn to .tjie most bigoted unionist or narrow minded Knight .of Labour. ■ 'But] let that pas 6, At a time v/hen owing to oifoumstances ;aaiar" removed ifrom the control of the Seddoh Govem-f ment as the regulation of tbo tides, prices' have 'fallen heavily—in some cases establishing.records—for wool, grain, andother staple produots of the Australasian colonies, and tile unfortunate landed proprietor is ,'at his wits end to make .both ends meet, a Government notoriously hostile to capitalists and. fininoial institutions | and pledged.to " advancedlegislation" has been, returned tp.ppwer ip ; fZealaad by. an overwhelming majority; When the inevitable result opines about, ! a wfithdraWal of capital and a hesitanoy of investment neces-. skating a contraction of all industrial undertakings, and a retrenobmeit of expenditure, (he sapient.informer; of our local contemporary can find notli- i ing better to say than that it oomes < about from " spite against- the ' Government." We are not sure that aiiy,' means would not be justifiable, to put | out of office the present Government ( —probably -.tliej'most 'vicious •'and ; ( corrupt that hasever -held' power' in in this Colony, but we are'afraid that the couraes u^geated wpuld- : prove too costly to.commendjtself .topurlanded proprietors. Doubtless tbereaie many 1 othercauses',besides;:the ono men-/ tinned,■' jpoteatedough'; to demoralise trade, and damage the delicate fabric of credit on which 'our' worldwide; .commerce;,rest),; The silver difficulty, the recent ooalstrikein Eegland, the uneasy state of' Europe, tho disturbed condition of Amerioa both Worth and South,and the recent financial crash in Australia all these have 1 doubtless, prejudicially affected) the markets of tlm world, But at a time'wh'en both employefahdemployiii should., be standing r< shou]der to slioolde'r to bring about a moVV proi-! .state? of., affaiS,; hp ; Wj, catf.we properly designate those who by con*-; tiniiedicarping, unworthy, and : lying innuendos help to keep festering a wound in the body politic which all would 'aMost seem'ati times as : ifsome. men werejunder the. 1 that tbe 1 rich, well-to-do or upper 1 classes fiendishly deLghteAjiin, geeing 1 poverty and distress round about j them;', It: tli|r.6| be Jbotj menj iliep, are grievouJv misiaken. Allsthe ,-j world'bvef'th'e'temble problem of pro- 1 gress and: poverty- is: oi-nfrontiog ' I Btattc&Ußf.gipitaligtsand philanthro- J

|i|Btß,,wbp ure making (jigantio elioits «nd Biof|liceiijio4ilevii(te the poverty, ffhiohioubtlesa exists. 'Bui! it seems insoluble foi iWe hud the same condi- . monarchical Europe aid deJfroßntlio-AfneriOrt/'in 1 tbiokly i populated counirn'B like England and sparsely inhabited continents like Australia, \Ve are driven baok to consider the old saving that '.'the poor #ll bo always with us" is true, or iliie we paw on refusing to disousa iho question like themembor ot the Imperial Parliament,) who'in the recent debate oil the "Unemployed" saidj '' I sympathise with the woea of all ihe uuman race, but- let us get back lo business,' ),