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Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

AS OTHERS SEE US.

' Scribner's Magazine'for June, speakiDg of political affairs in New ySealand, says : "In view of certain facts one need not be a financial authority to have forebodings of the future. The now woman is abroad in the land, and is beginning to act in a manner that would delight Mrs Lynn Lynton as a justification of her own worst fears. On her first appearance as a vote giver, which was at the last election, the enfranchised one bad not time to assert her sex in politics, but just fell into step with one or other' of the opposing parties Since then the virulent femininity of her has been expressing itself in plots and organisations to pluck the pipe from the mouth of man, dash the uplifted pewter from his hand, shadow his outdoings and incomings in the interest of his own soul and abstract morality, and otherwise make the colony a place undesirable for male human beings. The organised labor voters, too, seem as if they were anxious to save from the reproach of proving false prophets those who preordained many follies in their name. One could instance a dozen absurdities, some mean and envious, others merely nonsensical, to the accomplishment of which various of the labor bodies are looking for benefit to the worker. Both characteristics seem blended in the demand of the Dunediu Knights of Labor that all Government salaries of over £2OO per annum shall be reduced until they are no longer so, and from the sum thus saved provision made in one way or another for the unemployed. The political organisation whioh thinks that the principal public servants in, say, the universities and railways are worth only £4 a week, or could be retained for such pay, occupies a place all its own on the highest peak of human atininity, and tie country which produces it can fairly be viewed with suspicion."