A L AB ERE IS THOUGHTS .
• A Correspondent of a southern k contemporary, ginning himself ''An Ordiniry Labourer," writes as f >l.ows : — " N"->w I "hope New Zealand will neVer take her-guage of comparison from England. KngUnd's institutions were not made for her wording 'men. S-ie has never given her toiling millions a chance. ; she has achieved vttondrous triumphs hi all depaatnrntsj she has been very kind to ' the high, born and rich, but hard, h»rd, is the treatment site has given to her pfartoiling m«m ani women, the well-springs, of her prosperity and heavily will the day of wrath be. She has studied politicil economy not huinmity. The feudtl system is extinct. The modern feudal system will soon l>e assaile 1 to ii-s very foundations; every soci-il evil brings i*s own dire puuwhni p nt, and out of that punishment the cure often springs. Of cout-ee we, will admit that population increases and develops the resource* of.the country, but why is, it that only working nian ia gp>dged his fe# shillings a week extra, when jail jjlassjes are indulging m extra profits, andUharing the general prosperity ? One of the silliest arguments, yet one often urged against increase of wagas is that we (the labouring classes) only drink* it. Well, suppose .w£ do drink it ! Suppose we all rlriuk like nVnds, that only shows that the effect of the ill-usage of centuries remains. Is that sufficient reason to^ deprive us of justly won earnings 1 No! Thei-e 'are^but two ways «f d-laing with drunkenness, the dttyse ot ( onr, clans and of otlr-r classes Th^ firsv- is — close the public ; this is th platform of io*a\ absti-icra, x mt it n^ver will be ace* n>plish*H»il, V f Th" j-imjoih! is — plao? the Ifquor traiiic in 'tbe> Bands of )aauagi i vs p.»iii i>y the State ;j
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Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 440, 13 March 1875, Page 2
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