" Medical Trades Unionists."

Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 10520, 16 December 1901, Page 4

" Medical Trades Unionists."

That is what the so-called "duly qualfied" medical practitioners are. ITtterly unable to compete orTlair and honourable terms with genius of out side completion, they must needs have a bogus legislative enactment to '"keep their system from falling to pieces. Tne constant cringing and crawling to the Legislature by an incompetent body of medical men for "protection," may be likened to the shoddy manufacturer and a few infirm workmen asking for a fraudulent enactmenfc'to "protect" their avarice and useles^nesa against a highsr class of manual labor.

• Protection, indeed I A policy created for tht sole purpose of enabling the few to loaf on the many is a continysfcible policy, and charactertic of a selfish and wicked people. The fact of a mar. having "served his time" at a trade, is no guarantee that he knows .anything about it ; any more than a "diploma" is a guarantee that a doctor can cure anybody, Moreover, no man or body of men should have a monopoly created by law— of anything ; and it is positively inconsistent with the crudest form of morality for one class of individuals to endeavor to raise itself at the expense of the prosperity and happiness of another class. Those who wish to rise in the scale of human life should not try to attain their ends by depressingtheir fellows, and preventing others from improving their condition. "Medical Unionists" have precisely the same principles or practices of tradesunionists in general- that is, to use their combination for the benefit of a clique, and the rest of humanity can go to Kansas ! The ordinary trades-unionists dont use their organisation as a political machine to get equitable laws for the whole community, and until they do so I shall have but very little respect for what is denomiteted modern tradesunionism. As to. Medical tradesunionists and their song and dance about "protecting the public" the best protection the public can have against anything of a shoddy character is ENLIGHTENMENT. Probably the time is not a long way off when trades-unionists and their political henchmen will cease to . ran this country, anyhow ! All shoulii rule, not a claBS. '

Prof. George H. Raymond, the Great Botanic Practitioner, emphatically refuses to associate himself with any bogus chartered medical corporation in this or any other country ; and he wants no title, i-hoMorable degree or trade mark from? any scolastic institution, as he prefers to raise on his merit, or be forgotten. Mr Raymond has maintained this position for nearly twenty years in all the principal cities in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Tory-ridden Canada and British South Africa, and he will stand true to his principles, until overcome 1^ the darkness of eternal day! Address : Hospital Street, near Trinity Church Greynaouth.

A Pohuz settler having refused to supply the Agricultural Department with the necessary statistics, according to regulations, he is to be proceeded against at the S.M. Court shortly. Owing to the great demand for kauri timber for Australia and consequent increase of wages through the men working overtime, the price of kauri timber has been raised Is per 100 feet since Ist November. : A correspondent writes that a good deal of smut is noticeable in the grain crops in South Canterbury this year. Five whales were seen close in shove at Island Bay, Wellington, on Saturday last and three on Sunday. A 19 lb trout was caught) in the' Hurunui river recently. Sawmills are being established on the "West Coast of the North Island, inland from Ofcaki, in localities which ab one time were considered inaccessible.