Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3228, 19 September 1892, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

T HE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM.

It is Baid that " Variety is the spice of life," and that "it adds to its flavour." Tbe poet (Inßac Watts, or Cowper, we f<irget.' which) was not very far wrong «■ hen he penned this couplet, for certainly ife would be but a dull monotonous thing wcro it not for its pleasing contrasts. In tl'o animal world we have the graceful and ; Uy deer, and the bold and ferocions lion, Mie huge elephant, and diminutive though \ 'tructive mouse; there is the plain. J-.nmble-looking thrush, with its rich soDg, • nd the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough t" know it) are conspicuously absent; then ihore is the mooßter whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feeds. (Whilst in mi 3 kind the contrasbs are still more marked and numerous, for not only are i)'eir "physical features," so to speak, •iiiTerent, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain I « ts are considered dishonourable and even d laiinal, and in otherß the same acte

-. - aid bo looked upon as ligitimate and n- oarable

In China and India, for instance, we i<> ieve. lying is a virtue — we won't say a re • c virtue ; while among the Negroes- of America chicken-stealing is considered o c of the favourite no3turn«»l pastimes. •■ '• ' perfectly praiseworthy, too — provided they "don't get caught in the act." In this country our tastes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. We don't believe there is a siugle bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to Iry violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political in itters, they are legion, everybody has an opinion of some sort; some think that Ballance and his party are the willing in traments of the evil one; others^ think t K-m the only men capable of ushering \n. ' h t era of unexampled prosperity termed »>' some enthusiasts the Working Men's y lennium; others, again, are loud in ' h ir praißes of the author of the, Public W.-ks Policy, whilst others clamour for s . Harry Atkinson ; but one and all are " Tiimous in pronouncing Buchanaa'B II iße of Commons Whisky "(he Purest j ' Best in the Market."

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