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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 9

STRIKING DIVERSITY STRANGE UNANIMITY. THE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It ia said tnafc ' Variety is the spici of life, 1 and that *it adds 6a its flavour.' Tho poet (Isaao Watts, or Cowper, we forgei which) was not v<>ry far wrong whon he penned this couplet, for certainly life would be but a dull monotonous thing were it not for its pleasing aud relieving contrasts. 1b the animal world we have the graceful an£ shy deer aud tho bold and ferocious lion the huge elephant, and the diminutive though destructive mouse; there is tho plain, humble looking thrush, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and ho has souse enough to know it) are conspicuously absent; then there ia the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not nly are their ' physioal features,' so to speaks 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 honourable, In China and India, for instance, we ben lieve, lying is a virtue—we won't Bay a rars virtue ; while among the Negroes of America chicken-dealing is considered one of tho favourite nocturnal pastimes, and perfeotly praiseworthy, too—provided they ' don't get caught in the act.' In this country our tastes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. VVe don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to lay violent hands on a poor uq - protected fowl. As to varying opinions, on political matte?! they are legion, everybody haa an opinion of some sort; some think that Ballanceand 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 some enthusiasts tho Working Men's Millenium ; others, again, are loud in their praises of the author of the Pablio Works Policy; but one and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan b House of Common's Whisky [ the Purest and Best Id tho Market.'