MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11782, 6 January 1899, Page 6

MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN.

TO THB>-'EDITOR. .. Sir,—lfc shows our prosperity and good feeling for each other, “man’s humanity to man,” that voices should be heard against one doing too much for the other. 1 see “ Humanity ” remarks that “ Women are more cruel to their own sex than men are.” Are we ? Have we the power to be ? We may be spiteful, in word or treatment, at times, cause an unpleasant feeling to one of ourselves, but can we by. our inhumanity to each other —cruelty if. you will—“ make countless thousands mourn,” as men do? We may well echo . Burns’s question, “ Why has man "the will and power to make his fellow mourn?” This takes more thought to answer, if we look far enough and read the “ Times ” daily, than the occurrence of .Christmas' eve falling on a. Saturday once in six years. On ordinary. Saturdays shop assistants, go off at 9 p.m. The assistants, bad two full days afterwards. Sundays they always have. Does “ Humanity's if he is a married man—“young and delicate girl” servants' have the whole of that every week, or any week? Dees his wife even? She 'is a lucky woman if she has only to begin work and thought at ' 9 a.m. , arid cease at 6 p.m. I don’t say anxiety, because shop assistants do . not have that in their work. That is reserve(i-tih they are some,” Humanity's ’’. wife, _Tf/ahjthingjis needed to cultivate thankfulness that we are all workers :n “ Brighter Britain ” we need only read .M’r" Bohargan’s.remarks about “ white slaves ”’ih to-day’s “ Times.” —lam, &c., . -INHUMANITY.