Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2419, 5 May 1893, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It ia said that " Variety is the spice of life," aiid that "it adds to its flavour." The poet (lasao Watts, or Cowper, -we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly ife would be but' 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; t there is the plain, htjmble-looking;thi;ußh, with its rich eong, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to know it) are conspicuously absent j tren there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which' it feeds. Whilst in monkind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only are their -'physical features," so to speak, different", but they differ intellectually and morally also. In come countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in others the same acts would be looked upon as ligitimate and . onourable '- In (China and India, for instance, we beliive, lying is a virtue— we won't cay a rare virtue ; while among the Negroes of America chicken-stealing is considered one of the favourite^ nosturnal pastimes, an 1 perfectly praiseworthy, too — provided they "don't get caught in the pet." In this country our tastes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the the country mean enough to If y violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying ( opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody ha b an opinion of some sort; some think that Ballance and hi 3 party are' the willing instruments of the evil one ; others think them the only men capable of uflhering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by some enthusiasts the Working Men's Millennium ; others, again, are loud in their praises of the author of the Public Works Policy, whilst others clamour for Sir Harry Atkinson '; butone and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest and Beat in the Market."

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