CONSISTENCY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8084, 24 September 1894, Page 1

CONSISTENCY.

TO TUB EDITOIl. Sir,— If thoro ia one virfcuo abovo another that commands our admiration in humanity, it is consistency. But when we two a person professing consistency, and yot his actions exemplifying inconsistency, wo sicken and foel insufferable diaaibt. We have beon treated — through the columns of your contemporary—to a characteristic eflusiou of John Hutchinson — lato cook on Buntnoro station — on shearing matters. So in order to remove any dubt that may hive beon thrown in tho oyi j 8 of outsiders by this culinary hcribi 1 , lot mo it) a few words inform those who know not John Ilutohinson who and wlnt ho ia. LIq u a cook, and (to give him his duo) a good cook whan it suits him ; but I could give instaneoi when ho did not by any means treat shearers (for whom ho cooked) decently, and it is quito possible that he atili remembers how narrowly ho escaped baptism by immersion in a running stream not far from Otemituta. Ho h»s a superiioi.il y one-hided knowledge of tho lubor question, and ho delights to expound hit picjudiced views before the privileged few who care not to think deeper on the question tlMti himself, llo proto«8ui£to bo a atiunoh unionist, but I take it that unionism moans the binding together of men for mutual help and advancement, and if John Hulchmson practiced this sort of unionism, it would not bo hero necessary to btigmatise him as being buoh a veritable quickb'tml of inconsistency. When put to the test Iii.s philanthropy vanishes as tho clouds of tho morning, Continuing his wonderful production, ho says ; M I have not tho ; slightest animus against tho manager of Ben more Station, and respect him as much individually as anyone in tho colony." Yot later on wo note how ho defends tho cowardly attack of Kelly, of Invorcargill, on the personal character of tho manager of Benmore Station. A very elastic conscience haa John IJutohinson. lie i>1sq says, whoti speaking of tho agreement used on Bonmore, "That not ono out of ten know what they signed." Well, this is not very complimentary to tho shearers, and if buch a statement be true, it is very obvious that thoy needed management. However, such a state- ! mont, like most of John Hutchinson's, speaks for itself, und bears its own refutation. John llutchinsou knows well onough that tho agreement was read aloud to tho men, and they wore left homo 15 or 20 minuter to confer among themselves boforo they were askoil to sign. On tho matter of wet sheep so nuioh has been said that one is f.urfeited with tho question. It was conclusively proved in O.unuu that the sheep were not wet. It is .il^o well known tint the manager on J3enmoro ia as averse to tho shearing of wet sheep as the shorn era, and ho never wished to see tho men out of their money, ho bimply wanted a voice in the matter, and the shearers did not wihh it, hence tho manager's actions. Inbtmoes are known where men have wished to «1kju* wet sheep in oider that they might get the bhod cut out on a coitiio date. Yo»rs ago there was never any trouble about the web bheop business, and to-diy it Is a branch to which these agitators in the stupe of ut'ion agents and secretaries cling in order to keep their biilolw, mid instead of endeavoring to avoid Irtction in shearing ahod3 thoy do A\ in thcic power to stir up ill-feeling and birifo between ' mm and man. For my pait I think unionism when worked oo a proper bisit of consistency and truth is a grand thing. John Ilutchiusou also bays ; '* There aie no sheds whoio employer and omployeo work more in unity th-in whoro tho agreoment is : ' You «ho >r ; I pay. 1 " We ] know Hint this mtjaiiM, Wily m »u, John Jlutehinson ! Iu conclusion, I will htite i that I do nob iinbud to answer -my lotrt-r j tint John Hutolnnaon uuy wiue. His j effusion d«aervo< the mecit of silent con- ' tempt, but whon one sees ouch wonderful \ btsttomotit)) it is hard tq repress a reply even though theso statomonts em»inate from the fertile brain of such a phsttc individual aa John Hutchinson.— I am, etc., X.Y.Z.

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