TAMPERING WITH OR PAMPER ING THE DEMOCRACY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2913, 17 March 1891, Page 4

TAMPERING WITH OR PAMPER ING THE DEMOCRACY.

TO TUB KIiITOU. Hut — !.'ir George Whitraoru has written „ lettflr complaining of the clues iesislation which Mr Ballanco has foreshadowed n« tho policy which he, Mr Ballancoand his (lovernme.nt intend to peruse. If it was not that clam legislation is a great evil both in pweticn and principle. I won d rojoioetowe clam legation applied to Sir George Whitmore, for he richly doHenresit. I mnnot forgot that .Mr G. Whitmoro having been tho leader in tho Logifllativo AeeemblT for *? f'rovV Government, that ho assisted what in now the outcome, and of which outcome ho (Whilmoro) is now complaining of. sir' George Whitmore in being a Supporter of Sir George Grey, ho doubt thought ho could »it between the two stools and not run ~ r iak It is uot to be supposed that in liih heart Sir Cieorge Whitmore was a supporter of Sir George Grey's pohoy, but no doubt having some personal end in view he sacrificed his convictions thinkiue that he would gain his own ends and that nothing would come or any result follow, or that any outcome .voulil be or arise from supporting Sir George l.roj. Sir Georpo Whitmarc or any other man i 3 a short-sighted mortal to think he can tamper with a principle, and think he can escape retribution. I or any man ivian knows not whether we willbe punished Iα the gre.it unknown future of the hereafter, but this we do know, that any man I innot, in a direct manner, in this life do wroni- without in a direct manner suffering for it, and we cannot indirectly do wrong, such as an Auckland man supporting protection when he knows in principle ft is wrong, or any other person indirectly supporting any other evil, with the hope that he personal y will escape, for he cannot escape, i'" hre f , * lie wil suffer. It is u law of God, that in this life all evil brings retribution. Witness Sir George Whitmorc supporting Sir George Grey. Witness the Auckland men supporting protection, ami iu return having the labour strike. Tliev woru anxious to create. A Sous iudu.ty, and now that industry tbreaWiHto awullow them up, m.d no ~u!v swallow them "P. *>\xt destroy all liberty, and if thu liberty of the subject is destroyed, whit will follow, I will toll vim wbut will follow, iir<t there will boa ficriod of man killiinr hi* fellow num. ■proud despotism would have to arise to nave society, and once more tho multitude would be staves a<. far »t> neutral freedom in concerned. -Mr Editor, I am only n poor seeker after truth, and the question with mo in would despotism bo an evil i It will be justly said that 111 tho past man's rights were nowhere, and that his depositions being done away with, the outcome was tho rights of man I deny this i , 1 "say that ovolutiou has been tho "cause which has given ub our present rights. My opponents will say that the right of man is the outcome of the franchise being extended. They will say, the few having the power, the few kept the many down, and that the few would never have given the many their rights. When I say rights, I do not refer to the franchise, I refer to far higher rights ; I refer to justice in dealiiK' with one man towards another, anil I emphatically deny that the few could or would have kept back the richts of man, or rather I should say the justice which man now ha*. If no, the franchise would never have been extended, J'»r U "';'* .''"' /;■»• who gave the m'imj the- Jrom-h .«•. With me, Mr Editor, the question is, will the political rights which man now ruioy*not destroy the other rights, the far hii'hcr rights ? lam afraid so. Ihore is no doubt if man was a just being political rights would be a blessing ; but man is not°a just being, and to legislate upon the supposition that he is when he is not, surely is not wisdom. It would noc be wise to suppose a lion was a lamb and so act upon that supposition and cuter its rise lam afraid the outcome of the present political rights of man will be that man will devour man. On the other hand it will bo said that under despotism the far higher rights of man would never be "iven or extended, Who ever says so is °i poor observer. Will it for one moment be said that if despotisim should still exist iu Russia one hundred years hence, that Russia will then be the sumo Rusua she is now. Under tho despotic Russia of a hundred years hence, if she is despotic, there will bo no nets of injustice as there now are. Evolution, which muu can neither hasteu nor keep back, will have mado despotic Russia of now quite a different despotic Kussia of then, and this too without the franchise being extended to tho people. Mr Editor, ho is a poor observer who would advocate fads upon tho supposition that man is a jus; being. Some three or six months ago a correspondent, pprhaps •' Progress," I think it was " I'rosrress," Btntud in a letter in TrtE Waikato Times. that if all the people in the world worn to do their share of the work having to be dune, that the share of each would liu two hours per day. Progress, in support of this statement. jrav'o us an authority, a namo of some grout inau whom I. now forget. Ido not know upon what premise; or bases these liifiircs were calculated from. I cannot toll whether the rk'tin-s of two hours is ri"ht or wron;;, however, if nlcnliitcd upon Hi" assumption that there urn ho many p-.>ph:in the world, and that, there j* ;<umucli |ir"duci'd, mid that if thin production wiiH <"ivid'fl amo!i>rst all it would only take two !iinir-< of each, if .so oalenl.itud th'-'ii i" the authority, whom Progress qiii.icd all wronjr, and ivronj; from toil to bottom. All men in tho strict Beufoof the word aro not producers. A ueaniau in not a producer, he is only a carrier, millions of other men are uot producers, but just us necessary aa actual producers. If necessarily there is oue of these nonproducers for every one who is a producer, that would brim; the work of each to four hours per day, and as man is at present constituted, if Jack was as good as his master and all work was to be done under the laws of co-operation, it would require physical force to make any work being done ; it would require one-half of them as policemen to keep the other half at work. This would bring the hours to eight a day, but I am wrong in saying so, for two men by physical force could not compel other two equally strong to work, it would be a drawn battle, so it would take three men Lo master the two. This would bring the work of each to cloven hours per day. So much for the fad of co-operation. Mr Editor, all these fads such as co-operation and trade unionists boycotting nonunionists, and other fads too numerous to mention, aro tho outcome of too extended a franchise. It will be said, what is tho use of talking about what cannot be undone. True, tho people will not disfranchise themselves, but this could be done, nnd if so done it would much mitigate tho evil. The four largo cities could be disfranchised. Mr Editor, there is no doubt that if the higher rights of man are to be overthrown in New Zealand, it will be the population of tho four cities, which will commit this devilment. The members from the country and districts are iu a majority. They r.hould use this majority and diafrannhi™ , wholly and iMitirely I hi , I"'"' The town members would say I'ril 1.1»♦ - country and suburban m.-mlxrs wrr using bnif force in doinysn. In this 1 sny ln'iite. force U applied to all wrong doers. If a man in "Oing tosicnl from lii ; ; neighbour tin-■no'fif-enipn uses l>mto force and puts him in chokey. If a man is going to commit a murder and then murder luinselt the iioliwinan, if lie ran, '*•».-; '» and iimph lirnifi force to stop him. 'I he country makes tho torn, not tho town the conntry Well if the town is going tr> ruin the. country and so ultimately nun itself, then the country members must step iu and say we will take the power from the town from doing so. The town members legislate so as to aggrandize the town at tIK. expense of tho country. Toattain this Q ud th«y will range themselves with the

wilrl democracy for the timr bi-ini;, fnrcrotting tint by tampering t0 at "' pii'i'Penn" tlu; multitude they arc growing a monster which they will be unable to iontrol. In the first French Revolution the (Jirondiats sided with the revolutionists and thought they could advance liberty and still control thu mob, bnt hy-and-by the mob turned round and first of all devoured their supporters the p;or Girondists. I would advise well-inonning but benighted men such as Mr Lennox of Auckland, to lead Alison's llis'.ory of Europe. I am, etc., H.U'.AI'JPI.