The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, April 28, 1891.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 600, 28 April 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, April 28, 1891.

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The Conservative journals seem to have got ashamed of still further persisting in trying to make capital out of the action of the Hon. Mr Seddon in regard to the unemployed. Possibly it] is not shame that has led to their letting the subject rest, so much as a consciousness that by rousing people’s attention they have greatly increased the staunch supporters of Mr Seddon. The Auckland Star, a Liberal journal, puts the subject in a forcible way, when it says “ The policy which the Government intends to pursue with regard to the unemployed has been pretty plainly indicated by the telegrams published during the last few days. The principle underlying it is admirable, for, while due attention will be paid to the case of the genuine working man who is unable to obtain employment, no quarter will be shown to the mere professional loafer who seems to think that the chief end of a Government’s existence is to provide work for a number of shiftless persons who are too lazy to bestir themselves to look for it. . . . If relief works are to be opened up, as a matter of course if only a sufficient number of [unemployed people can be collected together in a city, and bring pressure upon the Government, it is the sober, hard-working man who in the end has to pay for it.”