Rather Warm for Her Majesty.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2075, 1 June 1887, Page 3

Rather Warm for Her Majesty.

The Australasian Secular Association have resolved to send the following peti. twn to the Queen ; —“ To Victoria, Queen of England, Ac. —Madam, — We can scarcely expect that this address shall give nsc to those pleasurable feelings, which in you will undoubtedly be called forth by the multitudinous sycophantic adulatory addresses with which you will be literally deluged on this your Jubilcr. Nevertheless, wo, the undersigned, honestly and boldly beg to outer our most sincere and Bokmu protest against the methods now bring adopted by certain sections of our fellow-colonists to give ctTect to the Jubike celebrations, and more [>urticularly, inasmuch as these arrangemeuts will entail the lavish, illegal, and unjust expenditure of the public funds at a time when honest industry is ill jiaid and multitudes of would-bo workers are absolutely starving through compulsory idkne.-s. We further beg to assure you that wo arc but a fraction of those who view with dismay and disgust the system under which such vast sums of money have, during the past fifty years, been (juietly paid over to, and pocketed by, your Majesty for no services whatever, in a land where the masses must drag through lives of arduous toil in order that eventually they may fill paupers’ graves. We believe that both nature and common sense alike revolt against the unrighteous system of which yoa arc the representative, and that every moral law is \ ioiated by the class distinctions, privileges, sinecure offices, Ac, which it creates and maintains, while every true instinct of the higher humanity is insulted by the wicked injustice to which it gives rise. Commending to you these expressions of oar thoughts, we beg to subscribe ourselves, Ac.”