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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5927, 4 September 1890, Page 2

The absolutely insane actions of the Maritime Councils in these colonies have provoked the establishment of the most powerful oi-franisation of capital that lhe •world has ever seen. Our cablegrams to-

day report the formation of the Ship-owners Association at London, which has for its object the federation of the trade of the British empire. Simultaneously with this news we hear that in all the chief towns in the Australasian colonies the employers are banding together for mutual protection and the cause of freo labor. These combinations would never have taken place if the affiliated unions had not gone mad through an exaggerated idea of their power to control everybody and everything. It is an evidence of tho serious character of the dementia which has taken hold of the working classes that trade and industry have had to unito to shield themselves from the I attacks of the insane. It is a question how far tho poor peoplo struck by this dementia are responsible for their actions. It is a disease which, apparently, must run its course. It is as useloss to appeal to the intelligence of the afflicted as it would be in the case of ordinary lunatics. They are under tho hallucination that thoy have the world at their feet, and that, they will emergo from the struggle more than conquerors. It is futile to reason with them. They are the blind followers of tbe blind, and like a mob of sheep when their leaders rush headlong over the precipice, thoy also will perish.