LABOUR AND CAPITAL

Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 20

LABOUR AND CAPITAL

Are the great factors in our nation's prosperity. They are as dependent the one upon the other as the foot mpon the hand. The hand cannot s*ay to the f*-t, I can do without thee," or the foot say to the hand, " I can do without thee." ' Each is dependent upon the other. There ought to v be the most kindly relations existing between them. There always will be distinctions between tt» rich and the poor. The Bible says V the poor ye have always with you." There are 10.000 circumstances going to make man's condition different in life. One man has better health than another ; another has a large family to suppoit. With one man, whatever he touches turns into gold; with another, though he touches the same thiug, it turns into ashes. There are 10,000 circumstances going to make the difference in men's condition. I don't complain of that, but what I do complain of is that a Government professing to be Republican or prof essing to be Democratic should lend all of. its powers and all bf its influence to make the distinction between ihe rich and the poor greater than they otherwise would b». (Cheers.) What I most complain of is that the Government should lend, itself to pass laws in the special interest of capital and to the detriment and enslavement of labour. (Cheers.)— Colonel R. J.'lngersoll.