Rangitikei Advocate TWO EDITIONS DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. EDITORIAL NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10516, 28 November 1912, Page 4

Rangitikei Advocate TWO EDITIONS DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. EDITORIAL NOTES.

SOME idea of the extensive business done by the well ; known;! firm of Abraham &]Wiliiams, Ltd., may be gathered from persual of the Chairman ’s"speeoh~at the annual; meeting published in our columns yesterday. From small beginnings at Bulls, Feilding and Palmerston, as “Stevensand Gorton,” the firm now operates over the large extent of country lying on each side of the mountain ranges, and its business is extending so rapidly that the employent of„more capital is 'necessitated. It is always pleasing ;to record successful business operations, and in this case the business is intimately connected with the welfare of the leading natural industries. It would be noted that the annual turnover of stock alone now closely approashes a value of a million of money, and with the land value dealt with considerably ex-, ceeds a million. The producers especially are therefore deeply interested in the success of the firm. Its expansion.[and-the profit it has made, including a large increase of the reserve fund, show that it is being well managed, and that its energetic and capable manager lias selected an excellent staff.

THE Labour Unionists in America evidently do not scruple as to the means to attain their ends, or rather to indulge in their propensity to destroy. According to the confession of one of the ringleaders in the dynamite conspiracy, the destruction of public "works was deliberately planned, and this because men were employed who were willing to work but who did not bear the union stamp. But for the firmness displayed by our own Ministry, which gave a complete check to anarchism, the American methods might have been adopted iiere—indeed during the Waihi trouble some of those taking part advised their adoption. A labour movement that adopts destruction as a weapon has no claim to consideration, and as destruction of property usually involves some loss of life, such criminals should have short shrift. It is time this country enacted some laws against conspiracy to injure the interests of the people.