OUR SYDNEY LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2895, 3 February 1891, Page 4

OUR SYDNEY LETTER.

(l ROM 01 U OWN' CollHK.sr, e.nF.NI). Ss n.viiV. January _ 1 ■ LlKKthe rest of He- world I have been t .king a holidav. which must serve as the exeu-e for tie ce.-al imi ol my notes. Like other pcopl-. too, I find thai ha..,'.-, which has o„ce been l.hroun off. docs not sit very ersily wh.'ii ll 1. again resumed, and this I,.ns| beiny excuse for any shortcomingin the present , nistie. lu the interval u new (iovernor has been m-talled in the person of Lord Jersey. Whether the newcomer will be as popular as hi,' predecessor il is, of cour-e, imoos.iblc to forecast, but appearances

'~, (•.,,. ;nv decidedly encouraging. I ,(ir,| •• .larscy" .as his nam,' as been ,j N ,.,| |, v soci'elv usiiagi-) has already 1,,.,,,, made the "butt of a greaf deal of -oit'lul criticism and ill-natured r.'iricitiire, chiefly from that section ~f the community which objects on principle to all (iovornment and symi>.,ls of (bivernmeut. as highly inconvenient to their own purpose*. There a 1,: individuals we know who are led by 11,.. desire lo gratify a merely Miperlieial jt .-li into courses which work 110 end of evil. This itch becomes with them the supreme object of life and thegratiHcalion ff it supersedes and supplants all manly ami publicspirited purpose and endeavour. Some have an itch for drunkenness, some for fraud, same for profanity and obscenity, some for notoriety, an J .soon. And whenever Uu3itchseiy.es them, it sets them ns it were heels uppermost, naked and not ashamed, in the sigh', of nil men. \\ ought to i,e controlled by higher considerations, but it usurps their place and ... „,lrols them. "We nil know the ,„ ;m whose passion, dominate his ,e,sun and his sense of equity and ~j,,|,|. Happy we if we don t know him far more intimaiely than is desir.,l,),., r„il. my object in allud- ,„,.- to him' is to show that I here is a elus.. in li") '""-b' politic which exactly corresponds !,, |hc low craving itch in Hie i-,,lividilal. A■ il i>. so Ihev arc ll is e.leiic.l a Ihine of Hi.' skin and Hie ,'iiiies. They also are eNl'Tiial outa.le the Imicdons of government and ~! healthy facial activity. H. allhough if has no qualifications to rale, and ean only biel its victims io ruin, eilher moral or material, alwavs cade:!', ours to rule, and listens p. mi renaming- that cullicls with its own indulgence. They also, although ihev have 110 qualification to nde, ev.'ept the determination not to serve, and allhough their ignorant and wr-jiiglieailedness are as patent as their uuscrupulousuess, seek, with equal persistence to displace and dominate those who are actually doing the work, and will be content wiflMiothing lait. the disgrace of Hie competent and the promotion of those of their own kidney. It.b'vauso it can

i.liil itch on.uo mailer what arguments or entreaties are bestowed upon it, imagines that ultimate victory is ecr 1 iin'.' They also, Leoause on one ileitis t«> meet them with their own iiiisavourv weapons of '• evil-speaking [\itvj; and slandering,'' fovhshly imagine that the held is their?. Hut jasfas the one in spite of its persist "nee and self-assertion can bo completely and continually controlled by ;i silent and undemonstrative resolve conceived in a rl.<ht spirit, so whilst (hey think themselves triumphant, are really only the more effectually rousing against themselves the conscience of the coiniuumty. It doesn't rave, it doesn't rail, but when the true Character of the offender has been .sufficiently demonstrated, it quietly discards him and turns its attention to something or somebody more worthy of it. "There is a whole class of literature, chiefly journalistic, whose kaolinrr characteristics suggest this line of rellcctiun and a whole

school of stump oratory which is a. worthy companion U> it.

Tilt: IL'Yli: embrugli" has almo-l faded out of sighl. Mr H:»yle, a railway employee, was dismissed by the commissioners. He and his barkers declare that In' v.-.is discharged liecms,' he was pre-idriii of the Railway Kinoloyers As.-.ocialioi'. The Com-mi-.-ioi'iers. cannot, of e.un--r be ex- •,,.'.•,!■:. 1 <•> in ''•-•. k.iown Hie ;ra-ous for j •,,. ii - ;., |j,,;i iii |i i < ii'il entitled to ~'.,,piireinl" tLi-in. but it may lo taken l',, r .riaiileil flial I hey would not have taken sj decided a course unless they had felt themselves able to adduce ample justification, grounded iu the jiublie lnterc-l. hi Hie meantime Mr Movie's friends serin i.o have seriously bluiidered in attempting to work up a political agitation on the subject. This course- is discountenanced by the whole scape and tenor of the Railway Act. (>:. I'oe other hand, thill. ni-:!-u-v. which scans |o have 1, : .,! i specially enacted in view ~,' such a ■..iiiiiiiL'eiiry as the ~~. «.. are .■•m-iilei-ine-. provides a i-s-e-ly f.ir railway servants „ |~. ,|.. ai: la i.i--'lves unjustly treat eel. II \h I in; lo'sea-r is nearly as strong a . hi- friends make out the Supreme ('i.iivt will see him righted without delav. The defeat of Ihe I'iuous continues In brine- t'urth the results whieli were expected of it. Agreements which were forced upon employers when the Unions were stroll"-are being repudiated on every hand now that their weakness lias been proved by their - eif-soiight defeat. The end. of course, is not yet, and will not be, until the relations of employer and employed are founded upon equity. The pre-

s"iitst-i.fr of iall'airs shows that " agreements" so called, which have been extorted by irresponsible conspiracy and enciviiiii have no permanence, anil cannot lie relied upon. No man iu whom the sense of justice is not dead or dormant doe- expert them to be permaie nl. Xo man yields to force majciiic looe-ei than' he can help, I, ut everv man mav well be proud 1,, be I. ml by hi> ov\o v.elb leasoiied eouvi'tioiis. Il agreement;; founded on corp-ioa have, and in the imtiiie ol tie: -are can hiivu no ocinriueiie, . il. tollows that all tlui nil:,i iv which is endured and all the •.aciiliee 1 ' which are made in the attempted (.xlorliou of them are worse than thrown away. To say nothing of the moral aspect of the question, it is an obvious fact that all tyrannical dictation arouses a permanent opposition ami resentment which is dynamically much more potent than any leiiipuriry aeees-.ion of .livngth which ...tii pos.-ibly be gained by it. Perhaps i he. hot -headed meii who are in the

-,'ih.'!; .it wlnit tlicy li:rv(> tinight thoninolves i ■ l"li. v.:' N :i life iiiiil-il.'alli fitrii»{fli\ r'uin.ir he (•xppi;lt:il t" bo l'nfliioiioo.l by .-noli n lino of re.iS'-.nkig. 'liirro i': fill Hio mom uoorl for tlm ,-;l;i!ilisli!iifiiil "f a tribunal which .■iluill bo cmiiow.'i'i.'d to settle those M i:rHiions on well-umlcrstooil princi-.-10.-i in.Ur.i.d of leaving them to be ;ilt,cniitt.oly decided nnJ overturned 'nvordin- to I ho lluetuations of streng-tir in the. respective eoiubatfti.ls." ~ , Tli.M'oiiil'iiiiitiiMi "t working nion to .:,i.i'ui tht'ii' lull representation in .I'm-' ■i nf. in order to obtain all needed , i.: I,v .•ojistitutioniil methods is ..:;h invij li"i-f'il tlmn '^vikiiifr.

liovi'ottimr. picketing;, and iill tinother devil's machineiy <»f the labour rjiriliitois put together. This course hasbeenalopted in New Zealand. m<'l a band of labour representatives has been returned which is sufficiently numerous to linl-1 tin- balance of power, Mini which will undoubtedly make itself felt ill future legislation.

N"i>"t\villl<t;iinliiilt the dei>ivssinjr it<-llu'-ii' i s oi tin' great strike, I In' liaid<s Mi r :ilili', witli nil'' in' t wii exceptions, to pay n< i;i»j(l iliviili'iiils for tic haltvc:ir which has just I'lidi'il ik tnr 'I'ii' 'which jiiwi'il'-d it. I'msiness is quiet, hut sound. iind there mo not :mv si hi i s lit present <if immediate revival.