SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1894. THE REASON WHY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4760, 29 June 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1894. THE REASON WHY.

I Waiiiaiiai'a scttlerwho formerly pent .several thousands of pounds icr annum on impvoVcineiits—that s, several thousands of pounds each car oil labour—told i,s the other lay that h(i ha<l discontinued his old iractice in iotu. ■ He' had money .vniliiblu for further improvements, >ut under existing conditions ho did lot care to effect them. Employers }OW were tied in various directions iy labour measures, ami 'although liesc were not altogether prohibitive ■o the man who ijfeght to make mprovements, thoy.-wore worries •hut had to bo taken uito consiliumiion, and which at itlio present time iur'ned the scale.- He had no fceliiif igainst tliQ Government in the niat :er, and didnotdiscontinue'improvc licnts to (lout Ministers."- .He'was i nair without political ambition o strong party feeling, and simply oi Ihe particular question of 'employiuj )i' not employing a veryconsitlerabl number of men took a business view As long as employers'and employe rero untrammelled-by a mass o labour legislation he continued, t expend capital on improvements, bu Uieworry incideiitar to effecting then under the now conditions' laid dowi by the present Government decidec him to stop. ( A pifiglc fact.is wortl a thousand arguments, and this om which ive have detailed with grail accuracj shows plainly the .vensov why sq very mimy unemployed people are now 111 flic Colony, and the' reason: why ;t|io-Govprunieul utterly fail tocope with' the difficulty. They promise us inpi'o la-bour.legis-lation, and this means less work and mora unemployed,; The logical and ultimate outcome of the Ministerial policy must be a reduction of througlioiit New Zealand,' Even now' in Masterton ivo find that, as good a man can he gpt sijfjhil; lings a day as could:formerly; lje obtained for seven. There • isino cutting down by employers, for nicic themselves conio forward voluntarily and offer to work for six. We know ourselves'of really good men who are content to work hard at five shillings li day,' and this is tlio state into , which things- liavo been brought' by the GoVermn out labour policy. -Wo are stating facts within our actual knowledge, and which art . tolerably familiar to niost of oii'rrea' s dcrs, The working inen.oftlie colpm arc beginning to recognize'that ,tlu Jlmistij which tjie) hi\e blnull> : worshipped has n6t;bettercd :theii ' condition. - but has made- it worse . It- may take ; 60nj0. ; timowyet for:fch< : full truth of■ tins -to oonjfi homo t( [ them, the process of disillusioii isijifll j as eas} as the task of illusion, bn fchoitrut-linmstslowly come:-home t( tjiei& l)j itlic stiongest and bitteies of nil tugunioftts, j;l]i)t of oxponeiice Aftei.tlucoieais (if unintiiLtl [ftm , nhiit.lidve the Hoiking uton o{ ft&jv 55calimd"Pwc mm of t«w

tl'Vvfeio t]J 3 confident they i)ilj be oil off hen as they nie now ? They need i| ansivei 41 Tho p&wnbiokcn o£ t| community wbo'nio now doing lomng tuido, give the Mot f them