WORKING-MAN GOVERNMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 149, 25 June 1888, Page 2

WORKING-MAN GOVERNMENT.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—"The notes of "Wanderer" (Mr E. H. d'Avigdor) should nob be_ allowed to pass without contradiction. His references to useless railways, debt, and taxation, nnfortunatoly we must admit, but when he says that in New Zealand the working man reigns supreme, I, as a working man, must contradict him. The working man has very little to do with making the laws of this country. Ho has trusted that to others, thinking one of themselves not capable of managing tho country's affairs. Had the affairs of this country been in the hands of a few honest working men, we should have been in a better position. It would never have entered into their heads to havo thought out such swindles as this Country is bhe victim to. The government of the'country has been in tho hands of a crowd mostly composed of lawyers, money-lenders, and salary - hunters, who are a curse to ahy country. They can see chat their salaries would not be forthcoming unless they went in for taxation and borrowing. It eeems hard to define a working man to suit most people. Now, Mr Editor, your definition Would be worth something on this point. _ I think when a man gets beyond being compelled to work for his bread by the sweat of his brow (which was man's first law), he has no right to speak for or on behalf of working men. lb is intended by our nature to work, and any man living on interest or independent of his own hands is living on tho sweat of obhers, which is contrary to nature, and also to tho sacred teaching of wise men long ago.—l am, etc., Labouk.