OUR POLITICS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 4 December 1899, Page 2

OUR POLITICS.

TO THB JSm.OB Sir,~-"Supplementary Observer's" letter in Friday's issue, is no- exxageration of what is looming should the present helmsman continue steering the Ship of State. What with lee way, unexperienced mariners (possibly pirates), taking too much latitude, the otherwise" decent craft is a long way to windward of "Prosperity Inlet." However, as a working man speaking to my fellow workers, I ask you- what are you going to do when you have killed the comely bird that lays the golden eggs for you e.g., the N.Z. farmers' pastoral or ag-ricu-tural !• Welt, you will soon bring this about if you vote without reflecting for Mr Seddon's crowd. Tammanyism and Seddonisro being akin means to you centralisation of everything affecting your - labour under party sway, and woe betide the units who are opposed, to its dictates. I venture to predict that eventually employers and employees will no longer exist outside th** State independently ; it will be made ape nal ioffe_.ee \o lohtoin. "laJbouV otherwise than through a Government Labour ' Bureau. The independence of choosing your employment arid vice yersa— choosing the employees—will be a thing of the past. Working men of independent opinion, _!>as not the piesent Government done more' to degrade .our manly independence than, any other. Self-refiance is no longer a virtue, and what is the opinion re the class created by Seddonißm! Is the term suckers and crawlers too vu'gar, too true, more | forcible than polite? Is not the motive political, their votes and interest. How many qf you pioneers 1 of the pick, shovel and axe, if you sjioke your minds, would prefer the shilling an hour, the old contract style without the stigma attached to co-op. work of being a relief works — a haven for deadbeats^ — t^ho from a working standpoint yos don't know from crows. We'l, you have ifc in your hands at the coming ballot, to keep the slimy tentacloa-of- Seddoni.im froni ] strangling "your birth-right — freedom of | opinion — which is the true meaning of th. liberty of the subject. Further, I would give * warning note to my fellow-workers anent the perverse side of "Trade Unionism," which spells tyranny, and must eventually militate against its votaries much much and malign as Seddonism. Taking most of Mr Seddon's legislation, is it not — more or less — of an experimental'nature, and if failures, who "pays the piper?" Not the experimenter? He quotes precedents or makes theml Between fjeddonism and Trade Unionism the outlook is for one, and the comely bird before mentioned —as between the d— l and the deep sea. Where can we find a tonic or antidote? Well, in returning men who pace "Country before Party," misnamed Conservatives, men who will treat their preference by you—the least to the greatest— as public trustees, men who discern and work for true progress, versus fads. In, concluding, thoughtful w-orker., not drones in the national hive, I appeal to you, isn't the Premier demeaning his position by toadying for voles, his noniineeism, and by thus to all intents and purposes (from a patriotic view) he is more "i'raitor than "Trustee," Moral— Wash your hands of him. and his'l—l uin, etc, " pplNpff NgZ.