THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8734, 21 February 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

TO THE ED1TOI!.

fjin,—A. correspondent ia your paper the other day complained that I had not given a list of books hearing on fcha other side of Socialism mid land nationalisation. I named two books and a number of reviews. I supplement the list by giving the following; no doubt some of your readers can give particulars of others :— " .Liberty and liberalism j a protest against the growing tendency towards an undue Interference by the State with individual liberty, private enterprise, and the rights ot property." By Bruce Smith, Published by Oeorge Robertson and Co., Melbourne, 1887. '■ State Monopoly or Private Knterprise."—By Sir F. Brumwell, 1834. " Liberty or Law." By W. Donnistliorpe, 1885. "Boais of Individualism,"—By W. Douuisthorpe, 1886. " Over Legislation at St. Stephen's, 188-1." " Socialism at St. Stephen'o, 1881." (Tho above are published by the Liberty and Property Defence League.) " Whaf the Social Clasies are to One Another."— Trubner, 1885. "Socialism: Its Nature, its Dangers, and its Kemediea."—Kegan Pnul and Co., 1875. "Proper Functions of G-overnment." —By J. Mees'ju. Lucas, Nelson, New Zealand, 1885. "A Century of devolution."--By W. S. Lilly. Chapman and Hall. I could mention a number of others. A careful perusal of tlio first on this list would, however, " knock the bottom out" of a number of current fallacies. Before a man's opinion is worth a rush he must study both sides of a question. The danger lies in the fact that most persons who buy books like George's, which, are best described as " i-hilliug deludes," will not, or do not, read or study both sidos.— l am, &c, February 19. Impabtial.

THE WINS CELLARS OF BREMEN. TO THE EDITOn.

Sir, —There is no mistake about the fact that they aro unique iv the world, no other place can ahow such a valuable article; but I think in your i<sue of this day, February 18, 1890, you are under a mistake, as tho original wino put into the imposing big casks would have beau destroyed by its own fruit acid years ago. To remedy this, at every good wine year at the Rhine, the cusks are filled up again with tho latest Rhine wino, and particularly in comet years. What, hovvevi r,a comet has to do with the full body of each years' wine, the scientific men have not decided as yet; but the fact is there, the com«t v.me is the best. Now about the great valuo of these wines, adding original cost and interest, upon interest, theie is no doubt of their high value. But here is the f.ict, Utuso valuable wines belong oaly to 8 tue Senate and citizens of Bremen, and not a bottle can be bought at any price, but any Medical man caa order the wine to his patients, and they then get it freo of any charge. On other great occasions, for instance, the newly tlscted President of the United States is presented with a doztn bottles, or the German Emperor or Prince Bismarck gets a similar present, or any other distinguished German or foreigner at opportunity. Sir, I have, seen theao so-called 12 apostles myself ao Bremen, and a very imposing sight they are; fancy big casks containing about 40 hogsheads each i.f the choicest wine in existence, and strange to say, the cask named Judas Iscariot has for centuries proved to contain tho best wine. For the last two centuries German poets have sung .about these Twelve Apostles, confined in a cask of a most uelicious wine. Our best German poets Schiller, Goethe, Wieland, Herder, and Heyne— iiavo given their poetry to them, advising them j to go into the world as directed by their great teacher and not to be confined in their present | limit. | Another strange thiDg we find iv the so-called lead cellars below the Koman cathedral, the bodies there deposited do not corrupt, but are as fresh as they were centuries ago, when they were buried. Scientific men argue that this is due to the ground being saturated with lead chemicals. I have seen the bodies myself, and can vouch for ti.e truth of this statement.— I am, &0., February 18. j. H. JOHN PLOD'S SHORT DISCOORSE ON LONG SERMONS. Maisteb Editor,—Though I ken Lauir aboot high-cut in plooin' than I due o' theology, I venture f.nu nttack what I'm glad tae thir.k*is no ?. prevoilin' tout wi' the ministers o' oor day. I rofer tae lung difiooorses whilk aro gien on the ■; r.aething-ava " or " ilka-thing-in-lhe-warld " text, mi', as :■. rule, ftre mair productive o' roi>airdless thochts an' expressions borderiu' on profanity than onyttiinff else I can think o\ Nou, I'm nu £sun tae bs personal, 3S oor am minister is. par excellence,'* short-sormon-and-micklc-in-it-mr.il; but as wo are uoo an' then afflicted v.4'_ v veesit frae a lang-sermon-aii'-iiauthiiig-iu-ifc-inan, it behooves me tae lift my humbla voice against this over-zualousness in a quid cause. Wi' inysel' a lang sermon, besides boiii' a weariness tae the flesh, gars my thochts waudc.r awa (o'c-n in God's hoose) on sic vain an' warldly things as to the wechfc o' that muckle fat .'.tot o' oors, an' hoo mony bushels the 10----acre paddock '11 run, an' if the greasy'oo' is risin' or fain i' the London market. Noo, sic thocbt's shoudna tak' possession v' ane's mind iv sic a place; but wha is responsible? I •iaurna fay I'm blameless, but I dimm think but what a wee sr^irge o' the rcud sticks tae the minister's coat t:,u.;. The sermon niicht be quid, bnt there is sic philosophy ns g&ttin' ower rnnckle o' a quid thing. At the begmniu' o' tho discoorse we settle doou an' drink in "tho words o' truth an' soberness " that fu' frae the lips o' the worthy man, an' whan we think we hae gotten aboot as muckle as oor mind's slamack can assimilate, we are raither surprised tiio hear the secondly o' the text gien oot, r.n' then, o' coorae, thirdly, fourthly, &c, follow ana anither, but no in rapid succession, an' aifter we hae beeu treated tae the "in conclusions," " r.e minute mairs," an' " juist anither words" we begin tee feel the auld Adam risiu' in oor hreists in onvthing but a fieenly epeerit, an' the quid effoc' brocht forth at the first vanishes, "like the early mist »n' morniii' dew." We gang hame converted iutae auo o' the genus irritabiie, an' whan Jenny or ony o' oor frien.-s epeir hoo we liked the parsons we riHher change the conversation by reniarkin', " It's * line morniu' " (tho' its afternoon), or we explode in bitter invective, an' oor "last state is waur than oor first." Leavm' this appeal wi' the public, o' whom I am but a unit, I subscribe mysulf Broae.ha', 18th February 1890. John Plod. —Tho reason pigs arc proof against snake bite is that the poison rarely, if ever, readies tliu circulatory system, owing to the i'at curried by tile pig,