OUT OF WORK.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2133, 4 November 1875, Page 2

OUT OF WORK.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star..)

Sib, —A correspondent signed " Sympathy" figures most singularly in your issue of last light. He seems to approve of the most of what I said in reply to " Nil Desperandum," but not in that hearty manner which a spirited working man would have done. It is a fact worthy of notice that however bad the circumstances of most working men may be generally, they would spurn to do such a dishonorable act towards their fellow workmen as to endeavour to reduce the hard earned wages they were receiving. " Sympathy" says I am one of the fortunate. Should I make him wiser, it would not serve his purpose one bit, nor should his sympathy be of any benefit to me,therefore as he is so good at guessing I will allow him the privilege of guessing for himself. Well, sir, in his , letter there is a tone. of sadness, but whether it's real or assumed, or indeed, as it might be all "gammon," of course I cannot tell. However as the former might be genuine, I will let him off without such an answer as he richly deserves at my hands. The expression " live horse and you'll get grass," I cannot perceive how any person of reasonable intelligence could construe.its meaning in such a manner as he has done, consequently his explanation of it must be a wilful misrepresentation, a^ad if that is so he must be not only an enemy to the class he assumes to belong to, but also to the cause he advocates. I think it will appear evident to the reader that the reason I made use of that sentence was, a number of persons who assume to sym- . pathise with the unemployed, seem to be | of opinion that if lands for settlement j were thrown open, and thereby settled upon by those who have the means and wish to do so, it^would relieve the distress of the üß«nl£loyed at present. Now supposing that, every; facility was. given to persons wishing to settle upon those lands, would that give immediate! relief to the unemployed ? Nothing of the sort! In the course of some time it might be the cause of taking a few men from here; but; how can j those men who have no means to subsist upon live until fchat time ? It is clear they coald not do so j hence it is exactly "live horse and you?ll get grass," which is just the very reason w.hy. the case of the unemployed should sbe ponsjdered and immediately remedied, without making it the means pf pther parties agitating their favorite theories, so as to serre their own ends evidently q% the expense of the unem-ployed.-—i am, &0., A MINER, Thames, Nov. 4; 1875.