"Little Cause to Complain.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4781, 24 July 1894, Page 2

"Little Cause to Complain.

• [to tub ■ editor, W.U. TIMES,! **■ 3 J | Silt,—Your leader which appeared r i , in the Daily Times of Saturday Inst, ™ 1 under the above heading, is desorv--1 i"g of a reprint in all the leading J journals in New Zealand, It sols , J ol '" 1 tho position of the unemployed . their relation to tlio Government ■ in clear and uninistakeable language, I and contains matter and argument which should' ; sensibilities of tho worfinig classes,to a true sense of what that position really is, It is an undoubted fact- -4 I notwithstanding the report of tlio j Labour Department to which you ( refer tlint never in the history of I Now Zealand has there been such i widespread depression, or so many : deserving people lacking employment; such utter stagnation in all ! the avenues of labour,and apparently i tlio worst has not yet come. Now, ; if wo admit—and it is too much A to ; admit—that the Government is lii iio way responsible for tho depression which exists throughout tho ■ Colony, tliey aro clearly, responsible —as pointed out in your able leader —for the false position, in ' which tho unemployed now find themselves placed, Tho pernicious doctrines promulgated on the various platforms throughout the country; at the polling booths;: and through fi portion of- tho public press; has done much to destroy the native in- >*. dependence of the working man. He . is apparently no loriger able to shift f for himself, but with the gregarious instinct inherent in the liumau wee, he unites himself with- pthcrs in a similar plight,:and together they niass themselves in tho towns and cities and look to the Government tor the wherewithal td livo. • Tlioso aie notthekind of men who pioneered the Colony and made it what it isDunng the lasf geiioral election, and - foi some time prior to it, thoro were 0 - no unemployed m the country dis- - * .-^l- - money filched from tho tvgs m fieeouxjulation, 1-:- - I '

viding work for those whoso votes |"iit H largo measure were JtfMpplj* tlrtfsiliows of power for ft coiitinuanco of Soddoninn rule. Thatpowcr oneo secui'o tliqsciuenwcrc promptly suclied ;4li(it lstfi-Uy -as' promptly as \vas „ consistent j.ivith ~souiid Lilik'til'policyl'i lAivl'iliiWiitlio Pj'omior scarcely, veils the contempt which ho duped ones, when lio tclis them they must not P oxpect the Government to find work for them, and really considering their gullibility and their lvant iof penetration, I also fool inclined to * say—thoy luive" little cause (o complain."—l am etc., ■v-'. ■■■■ ■ Laiiouiihii, Mnuricovillc, July 23rd.