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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9629, 18 March 1910, Page 4

From the wilful destruction of property by explosives, to the assassination of individuals who may have failed to please the labour unions, is but a very short step; and we may at auy time expect tho Aberdare colliery outrage to bo followed by still more atrocious doings. It is hardly surprising, when we find journals claiming the title of "respectable," actually passing votes of censure on tlie Prim?! Minister of a British colony for having

insisted on the law beiug respected and obeyed; aucl iv so many words telling their readers thattobe law-abid-ing is to be a reactionary and a fool. It is really inconceivable that sane men, with the menace of the Eastern industrial invasion closing in upon them rapidly, cau waste their timo aucl weaken their industrial fibre, by such utterly futile aud pernicious methods as strikes. But it is by no means inconceivable that, being so utterly foolish, they should resort in their idle hours to the use of dynamite as an argument. The strikes do incalculable harm, not only to the public welfare aud peace, but to the strikers themselves. Their loss of wages is loss serious iv the long-run than tho effects of their idle .ess; for, during that vacant period, the edge of industry gets blunted and the mind reverts to ciHiigerous channels. It is time tho papers gave houe.se counsel, a,ud discouragod aud condemned strikes with all the energy at their command.