Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-06-07

Used in manufacture, their trees equal to
he India Teak or English Oak for ship
building, the Maori superstitiOns and Co
Onial policy, the free trade that made i'm
ports cheap, tea, for instance, costing only
80 cents per pound and absence of manu-
facturers that left the people poor. dis
abused his mind of the common notion
that living must be easy where there is lit
lie or no winter, by informing him that
lumber. flour, clothing and groceries are
all to import, and the laboring class often
without work.
THE POOR.
1t is sad to find in all these colonies so
many poor people, suffering in health,
broken in fortune, desperate in character.
They are the prey of Adventures and the
dupes of demagOgues. Old country peo-
pie do not readily adapt themselves to a
new country. The land is held for rental .
in large blocks and they cannot easily OBJ
tain a right to the soil Then they lack .
faculty. They are not handy. They have .
not what Caleride calls brains in the head. - |
| felt shocked in visiting some intelligent, |
well dressed people of my congregation in |
their homes, to find that these homes where |
they had lived for years, and were bring /
ing up families, were rude cabins, with /.
earth floors and hardly a chair. Yankees, |
put down there, instead of beer bibbing |
would have taken to whiting as natural !
ly as ducks to water. They of course don't |
understand why any tool using animal
with only a jacknife, can't manufacture all
that he needs in the shape of furniture
As to themselves it is universally known
that they construct everything from wood
en- nutmegs up to a political constitution
with all the bye laws in working order and
warranted to run century or so, if only
wound up regularly at election times.
ASSISTED EMIGRATION.
This is one cause why habits of self-rc-
lance are not developed The different
colonial governments make arrangements
to have immigrants introduced at halfprice
on promise of being refunded the expense
they are at. They also employ lecturers
who travel through Great Britain to dis
seminate information in regard to the com
parative advantages of the different settle
ments. As there Is considerable rivalry,
these lecturers paint their descriptions in
gorgeous colors, as if they dipped their
pencils in the bright hues of those south
ern skies. These colonies, according to
them, are all new Edens. They are the
veritable Ophirs, whittier the wise king
sent for gold apes and peacocks." There
nobody dies. Nobody can grow old. No
body need be poor. The sky is always
bright, and the air serene. There are no
thistles in the ground; no winter in the
year. All are respectable and religious.
Such exaggerated statements lead numbers
to 90 out who are utterly unfit to grapple
with the hard realities of a new country.
Such are ready to say, "The government
| brought us out and will have TO support
US" So they are pauperized and thrown
| for employment on public works; or they
| are sent from Natal to Auckland or from
| Otago to Melbourne by the ship load to
| find themselves not much better off. felt
! thankful that one land still remains, where
| the poor are not pauperized, where "Agur's
| petition can be answered and the large
middle class, hold fast the golden mean,
and live according to the golden rule which
are worth more than all the gold Of these
countries. All that any race or class
should ask for is "a fair field and no IA
yOr." We help the poor mostly by help
ing them to help themselves.
sHARPERs.
| | might have interpreted Pharaoh's
dream as | saw its fulfillment here in the
lean kline eating up the fat kline and well
favored kline. | saw lean, lank, hungry
looking adventures, in all kindness swai-
low their kin or kindred and digest them
at their leisure. | hope your readers will
not be shocked. 1t is true am speaking
of New Zealand. But it is not of the can
nibal natives but christian colonists, and
so of course l speak in a figure" 1t is
this only that Englishmen and Irishmen-
good christian souls out of pure kindness
will swallow and digest a countryman, and
remain as lean, lank and i'll favored as be-
fore, whilst they lie around loose watching
for another meal. | have now one such in
eye. A sober, quiet, smooth sort of man
who to the wisdom Of the serpent" adds
his powers of deglutition. He usually
took in strangers. But | remember his
entertaining relative for a few days, and
then in return for all his hard cash he rent.
ed him for few years q section of land he
was to clear, no trife in that jungle, anc
occupy by building house, and making
other permanent improvements.
THE MAN IN THE IRON CAGE.
Intemperance is the curse of all thes,
lands. 1t is not unusual for men to get
nobbler" eight or ten times day. Treat
ing to drink takes this name, | suppose
from hob nobing. The equivalent Sian.
term in Australia is to "shout." AnC
they shout as loud and as often fol spirit
there as they call for nobblers in New
: Zealand. Bar maids serve as walters
am so much Of an opposer of woman
rights" as not to think it right for any 0
their sex to be found in such places, wait
l ing on such company. Itseems the devil
r trayesty of that promise, "Thy daughter
= shall be polished after the similitude of
palace" to find them polished after tn
similitude of gin palace. We could no
l help witnessing every day the sad fruits Q
S intemperance | may give an example :
|, One evening | was called from my stud
r to see person who wished to converse wit
me on the subject of religion. found hin
. in dark, despairing state of mind II
! appeared bound in the bonds of sinful hat
: it. | was fain to accost him in the word
, of Bunyan, "What manner of man al
! thou" And he replied, was once
- fair and HOurishing professor of religion
!, | drew from him gradually his sad histor,
n He once owned in a mountain town in Ca
. ifornia, ranch, a store, train of pacl
! mules, and many mining claims All tn;
u he touched turned to gold. He enlarge
: his business. He took in partners an
trusted agents who proved unfaithful. H
d still had what so few Californians the
~ had, a home as we'll as a home in IL
~ church. His child died His wife sicl
y ened and died. He himself was prostra
rs ed with sickness, but did not-could n
&c die. He rose up from his sickness an
o., went forth into the world to find it di
?, ferent world, and to find himself alone, b
ID reaved of friends, broken in health, ban
es rupt in circumstances. Against all advic
,e he removed to Australia, where he lost q
:; that now remained to him-his religio
- hope. Thus he went to far country.
In And there he did not join himself to a ci
izen of that country, who might send hi
t. into the fields to feed swine, but he Join,
:, himself to the tyrant, strong drink, WI
ed thrust him out into the gutter to wallc
lie amongst the swine. 1t was in vain that
a tried to instruct or comfort him. If
,d quoted a scripture promise, he repeated
~ awful threatening If referred to insta
&c ces of Sovereign mercy, he adduced exaI
- pies of Divine justice. The man was in
re cage. He might well say, 81 cannot, O
oe cannot get outr And | haG interpret
81 there, as l had not in the Interprete
le' house," what the iron cage was. 1t W
ks the body. That body imbruted, alcoholic
. and possessed, was the prison house of t
se soul. He needed to be cured in order
be converted or comforted. | saw me
p than ever the place and use of temperan
ce societies. | remembered that our Savio
healed the sick and demoniacs before
in discipled them. And knew that he wor
,o have us not neglect the bodies if we wor
.ei save the souls of the classes and oharacte
nv He came especially to save.