Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1894. THEY CANNOT STOP.

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

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1894. THEY CANNOT STOP.

At the beginning of this year, thoughtful business men, looking round the horizon for a glimpse of Hue weather, said that things might comeright if only the Government abstained from disquieting legislation. But the Government cannot stop, it is tied to the feet of wild labour horses and must rush onward till it meets its fate. " Disquieting legislation." Why, we are getting nothing else, Bill after Bill is brought down to alarm and frighten what little trade, industry, and' enterprise remains in ' the land. | " The Land for Settlements Bill" is the last newcomer, an old foe with a new face, It is a sort of standing menace for people who have money to keep out of Now Zealand. It says to them, " Don't buy land in this Colony, because, when you have cleared, fenced and improved it the State may want it back again, Tako your money to some other country wliero laud can be bought fairly and squarely, New Zealand does not want men with money to come into tho country, as the colony is designed to be the happy home of men who have no money, but who, liy means of much legislation, can be mado to. exist without it," If the new measure were put under an honest name, it would be called: " A Bill to destroy tho freehold title in New Zealand,' a Bill to break faith with every man who has bought land in the colony within the past fifty years, a Bill to. decrease the market value of the whole of the land in both Islands, But tho mystorious Labour Unions, who lead the Government, want the tiling, and no doubt they will get it.