AN ANOMALY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5018, 28 May 1889, Page 3

AN ANOMALY.

[To the Editor op the S.O. Tjjies ]

Sißj—'Some time in the year of grace 1886 there assembled together a grave, serious company of gentlemen, their object being to discuss a matter of great importance—to ■wit some new legislation for the good of their fellow subjects. The very room they mot to deliberate in added dignity to them and their subject. As the discussion proceeded each of them desired to show his zeal and his knowledge in the good cause, and the depth of thought and the display of wisdom even astonished themselves. They said from nine or ten o’clock in the morning until four five or six in the evening, averaging six and seven hours per day, was too long .for any one to toil uninterruptedly. So we would pass an enactment that everyone should have a half-day’s holiday in the week besides. As Time’s wheel revolved it turned out that these toilers did not always want this holiday on the particular day stated; so now and then if spited them to alter as they wished, by — thus making all those grdve and grand deliberations and conclusions practically useless. Of bourse the limbs of the law say nothing, as they take part in the evasion 5 neither docs tho vigilant oflicer whose duty it is to threaten pains and penalties for breaking tho commandment. O you wise men from the East, West, North and South, make a public recantation of your errors, like other great and noble men have ‘done, and fepeal this ’unworkable imposition §u§ allow tbeep toilers to take a holiday whoa

.they please. For, don’t you see, it interferes too much with thejiberty of the subject. Then you will be immortalized as sensible,farseeing, wise. City Fathers. I remain, etc. Equity.