Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2323, 11 January 1893, Page 2

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It is said that •• Variety is the spice of life," and that "it adds to its flavour." The poet (Insac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly if c would be bat a dull monotonous thing

were it not for its pleasing contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and shy deer, and the bold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse; there is the plain. humble-looking.th.rußh, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to kn,6w it) are conspicuously absent; tlren there is the monster whale, and the tiny shrimp* on which it feeds.' Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, fox not only axe their "physical features," _. so to speak, different, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in others the same acts would be looked upon as legitimate and onourable In China and Indie, for instance, we believe, lying is a virtue— we won't say a rare virtue; while among the Negroes of America chicken-gtealing is considered one of the favourite sostuxnel pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy, too — provided they " don't get caught in the act." In this country -mr tastes differ, and our ambitions carry ns higher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to )fy violent handj.on ajßGftr unprotected fowl. As to varying %piitiqns on political they, are legioa r ev«fy£fif<ijjpaß an opinion of, pome, sottj! Lome think* that Ballance and his party are the willing instruments of the evil one; others think them the only men capable of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by" Bbrire enthusiasts the Working' Men's Millennium; others, again, , are. loud in fcheir'praises of the author, of .#hje. Public fork's Policy, whilst others! gamonr for 'Sir'fiarry Atkirifeon ; but one and fill are unanimous in pronouncing Bappanaa s House of Commons Whisky^'^KeTurest I and Best in th<> Markj&t,"- ' '0f a ; •.

i ■ ■■■■"■"• ■ — •- i Says '• Puff" in' the 1 Wellington Press : •^'•Frarioe is working matters so fine that their deaths are .more ;; r than their httths ! Ana yet there are, paupers even instance ! Yes, they ispePlVarly seventeen million francs in poo* reliei there Ihb6 year ! How does that compare with Great Britain and , Ireland ? well, for Great Britain and Ireland they spend ten million, pounds a year, and a jmUUoa and ahalf of that w'e.nt to TreianOT* Population of the United Kingdom, 35,241,482 1 Jfoptxlafaph/ : of' France, 88 millions ! ThereV'Bome arguments for Maltbusian disoiples here 1"