COMPULSORY INSURANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2863, 18 November 1890, Page 4

COMPULSORY INSURANCE.

YVkitinc on the by-laws issued by the Queensland Railway Commissioners anent tlie compulsory insurance of railway employees, the Brisbane Conner says : — " Compulsory insurance is an extension of State socialism which is, in its essence, dangerous to the ultimate welfare of the whole population. It means, a levelling, not up but down, and the subversion of individul self rt>li»nce, on which the happiness F.nd the comfort of the individual and of society so closely depend. It involves, in Us ramifications, a social tyranny which is more degrading to the intellect, the moral force, and the active strength of the workers of the world whether by brain or hand, than the most oppressive form of political despotism. It paralyses 3nlf-help, checks aspiration, and would bring humanity to one dull dead level, ground to a common plane by an unseen power—the power of the manipulators of industrial production — more relpntless than the lieutenants of the White Czar, or the cold-blooded pashas of the Sublime Porte. It is satisfactory to find that the intelligence of the railtay employee is awakening to the dangers of' this tyrannous dragooning by the Bt.it-; or by an oligarchy of pushing agitators.