SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878] SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1894. EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4755, 23 June 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878] SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1894. EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

Ukder the above beading the Notr ionnl Association of Now Zoalaiul calls attention to a recent issue of a tbd "Labour Journal" in which Socialistic doctrines mora suitable 1 for an advanced eommuuity like Utah than a staid Colony liko this ni'O printed at the expense of the public, It draws notico to one article eminently suggestive of the trade unions capturing tlio machinery of Government, and {ho|i jna-ug-uniting on this soilscenes analogous to those recorded in history lit con--nection with tho French revolution. Of courso tljo Government could take ndvantago of this opening to * appoint a number of their friends as Stato executioners, and on this ground a proposal for a niassacropf 1 all members of tho Conservative party might be received withfovpr, Another now departure touched upon 3 by this Government publication is the confiscation, of private r capital; and nn amiabto suggestion in the , direction of providing work for the ' unemployed by thensb of dynamite , and krostm.. Of courso tho abolition of freeholds, big and littlo, is :popularised .by tho manual, but pprhaps tho most suggestive . Horn in tho bill flf faro presentcd by the Stato printotr jo a m> ture of an ideal settlement in which the marriage tio is disponsed with, ' and replaced by free love. _ Wo do not know whether the .Minister for Laboiu'desire3 to see a reforflj pf this < haWctor cai i ied out in New Zealand, bufctheiethoftiticlois in black and whits, a«4 bo-isiesponsibloforiti production Rosjaibly tho Colonial Treasurci will object totupjStategoingas far as this, as under OJtWiujf i nirangements marriages contribute towards the Colonial Kxohequer and j it is doubtful whether the Governs i m6nt,on'economicalgiyunds l pnlyof t couise, can afford to go to such a { length Itmaysccmstrangetosomo | that tl» Goveinnient should pjfat j ' i * -- t

and publish articles of the character to which wo refer, but a perusal of the s Labour Journal for May ,sll convince "tho most sceptical that nothing is too hot or tooi heavy' for them in dealing with Socialistic exponments.- Can:'we wpnderthatm'anatinoßphei'eoharged with State dynamite of snch a charactor, trade is dull, and employment difficult to obtain and confidence in the progross and prosperity of the Colony is deatroyod.