Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3085, 29 March 1892, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WORKING MA.N'S MILLENNIUM.

It is said that " Variety is the spice of life/ and that "it adds to its flavour." -The poet (ißsac "Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly — fte^wonld be bat a dull monotonous thing were it not for its pleasing contrasts. In he animal world we have the graceful and Bhy deer, and the hold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse; there is the plain, humble-looking thrush, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to know it) are conspicuously absent j tten there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which' it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only ore their 'physical features," so to speak, different, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain tcta are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in olVfilß tne same RCta TTOUIoC be looked upon as ligitimate and onontable In Ctiina and India, for instance/! we believe, lying is a rirfcne — we won't say a raie virtue"; while among the Negroes *of America chicken-stealing" is considered one of the favourite nosturnol pastimes, nd perfectly praiseworthy, toc^-provided hey " don't get caught in the act." In his country our taßtes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. .We don t believe there is a single bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to lry violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody has an • opinion of some sort; some thmk that Ballance and his party are the willing instruments of the evil one; otters think them the only men canable of ushering in that era of unexampled pr^perity termed , by some enthusiasts^ Working Men's Millennium: c*^ 9 ' a * aiD ' are loud \ a of the author of the Public Works Policy, whilst others clamour for Sir Harry Atkinson ; but one and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " tho Purest and Best in the Market."