Ashburton Guardian. MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRÆVALEBIT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1894.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XV, Issue 3421, 27 October 1894, Page 2

Ashburton Guardian. MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRÆVALEBIT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1894.

Miss May Yates writes to the Post as follows, regarding the recently published returns as to the spread of the spread cancer:—Will you kindly of CANCEa. allow me, with reference to the above subject, to direct the attention of your readers to the influence that the consumption of diseased meat may have m producing cancer, and as a proof point to the fact that the Jews, who have special inspection, seldom suffer from this disease. The Chief Rabbi informs me that, amongst the 208 cancer cases treated m the Wellington hospital during the last eight years, there has not been a single Jewish patient. Out of the 6767 deaths registered m New Zealand daring 1893, there were 1061 caused by cancer and tuberculous diseases— two ailments which are very prevalent among cattle. As vigorous health can be maintained on the kindly fruits of the eari.h, which are uncontaminated by these dangerous diseases, their use would surely be a wise precaution, and as their cultivation will yield splendid financial results, and profitably employ a large amount of labor, thetr general adoption would not only benefit public health, but also 'promote the general prosperity of the colony. Many times lecturers have visited the colonies on the stump, and many times after having a pleasant trip, max o'reli, with expenses paid and a and the constantly increasing exaustraxians, chequer, taken from the pockets of their hearers, they have returned whence they came, and with all the assurance of men who have spent a lifetime In the land they described, have pretended to give an account of the people and their country. Such a one is Max O'Rell, only more so. At the most he spent but a few months m Australia and nr» w he writes a book, m which, besides saying very unkindly things about the colonials, he very often departs from the truth. Max O'Rell thus sums up Australian diet:—"Australians pass the greatest portion of their time eatAustralian ing. At 7 a.m. they have diet tea m bed ; ab 8 30 they breakfast on cold meat, cutlets, or rump steak, some fried egg« §nd tea ; at 11 o'clock it is a dry bißCuit and hajf a-pjnt of beer; at 1 o'clock they iunch, with wore tea ; ab 3 still more tea; at 6* p.m. they dine *ndl drinjt tea again ', a)b9orlO, requiring a little sttstenpMM, they (finish up with some bread ani «*»««*," $yyfr a statement is simply non.*M w#r^f t o^s faow impracticable sense, au. "**& uj^fei'Q^ ,» toap tq it is for a plau.. * * learn the customs ot a t His description of the Australian shearb^ though perhaps nearer the truth than the remarks about Australian the diet, is still overdrawn. Australian Max O'Rell says ?—Th» sheiker, there is the shearer with hia two horses, who, *8 either on his way to some station, or, nay? ing finished his job, has some fiveaudtwenty pounds m his pocket. Doubtless he is going, you think, to put this m some | bank. Far from it. Nine times out of ten he stops m the firbfc township until we money has burnt a hole In his pocket, j The innkeeper lies m wait for him, m° pockets his cash. The shearer then, finding Jib money gone, aska himself W *fc ** i

that he has no more, and threatens to c;o mi strike next season unless his wages at o increased. Thus Max ORell—"Brought up m ihe democratic ideas of the mother country the Australians a«a THE public men OF perfectly par suaded the oolosibs, that there is not a man among thsm who is not capable and worthy of becoming Premier, but they have no mercy for the man who, by his talent or cleveni ss, has raised himself abovo his fellows. There is not a single politistan m Australia whom I have not scan dragged m the mud or treated as incompetent, a buffoon, a robber, or, at the very least, as a man of bad character." Even so M. Blouet, but hard names won't hurt them, and our Premiers are nob afraid to go for drivas m the public streets lest some blood-thirsty assassin should take their life by dagger or dynamite. Max O'Rell sums up our politics thus— " The form of government ia good. This young country rule 3 its own Australian affairs just mit pleases. . politics. . • 'A he real rnler of i Australia is not the Queen, or her nominee the Governor, or the elect of the people, or the Ministers chosen by Parliament; the King of Australia is the working man. If this working man were content with his lot, or if the country prospered under hia rule, nobody would have anything to aay against him ; but, unfortunately, he does not make any use_ of the inexhaustible resources of thia im« mense continent, and he takes very good care no one else shall make any use of them. The working man m Australia, still more ohan his English cousin, Is a good-for-nothing, idle fellow, who stops away from his work drinking, and is a hopeless spendthrift, who thinks of nothing but his own pleasure, and never troubles himself a ecrap about the development of his country. He will throw up a good job just to go to a horse race. He is by turns a carpenter, locksmith, bricklayer, gardener, vinegrower, carter, shearer, and, as a last resource, schoolmaster. He goes on strike, not to make money enough to set up for himself—nob a bit of it; he simply thinks the more he earns the more he can spend, forgetting that it is what be saves, not what he earns, that makes a man rich. The Australian principle of government 'by the working man for the working man' is ridiculously sublime. These working men, who for the most part have come into Australia with the help of the immigration societies m England, are today the very people who force their Governments to put i stop to immigration. Australia belongs to the working man. What does he do with it? He hangs about Melbourne and Sydney while the whole country is calling loudly for more labourers to develop it; but the labourers loaf about the big cities with their hands m their pockets, or lounge about the bars of the pubUc-houses."