The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
THE NEW NEW ZEALAND.

Peoples Waterman, Sacred Heart, Minn.)
We present below the summing up
of Consul Connolly on his report made
to the State department for 1896 on
the sOcialistic changes conSumated in
the government Of New Zealand dur
ing the past five or six years. The re-
port is an exhaustive one, and after
reading it carefully from advance
sheets we cannot but admire pee
pie that could take government
that had long been in the hands of
the aristocratic and monopolistic
classes, and overthrow their influence
and adopt such radical and sweeping
changes in SO short period, and all
Of such changes being in the interest
of the home-builders and the laboring
classes, and still be able to show a
large increase in the wealth of the
country, increased prosperity, and
force from the lips Of those who Bit
terly opposed the change words of
commentator Of the new policy. No
one can fail to note the rank paternal-
ism that prevails:-the government
buying land and leasing same, even
loaning money to her farmers, adopt
ing an income tax, relasing improve
ments from taxation, and giving to
women equal suffrage with men. The
history OF the movement in New Zea-
land is carrying out In practical way
many Of the demands Of the People,
Party Of our country. The opposition
is no more pronounced here among
the monopolistic forces than it was
there, but our system which develops
such intense partisansh hip has delayed
the work here. 1t was not until the
producers and laboring classes had
been ground almost to powder by the
burdens imposed by wealth, that it
ignited and burst forth in a blaze Of
resistance that set them free. The
gold standard is doing it's work in
this country, and ere long the shackleS
that now bind tie people will be torn
asunder, and the people will make the
step New Zealand has. 1t might be
we'll to remember that New Zealand
is in the same latitude as the United
States, only south Of the equator-in
a latitude in fact where the highest
| type Of real manhood is developed.
Keep at it, boys. Our turn is coming
soon. The following is the report.
81 have been studious observer Of
every phase of social life and legsla-
| tive change that has taken place in
this colony during the past seven
years. l arrived at the very beginning
| of the experimental era-and it is no
misnomer to call much Of the legisla-
tiOn Of the past few years experiment
| tai in the truest sense. But while it
| is so, there is most gratifying fea-
ture which compensates for the VIC
lence done to the feelings Of those
| whose motto has been ''let US permit
matter to remain as they are, they
suit us we'll enough" That the legis-
lative innovations of the immediate
past have shocked the senSibilities of
a large number Of prominent and
well-to-do colonists is unQuestionably
true, but, at the same time, as against
any Inconvenience they may have ex-
perienced on this account, there is
the fact of increased presently in
nearly every branch Of trade and in
dus trial life throughout the country,
farm products are fetching satisfac-
tory prices, manufacturing industries
are running full time and paying good
wages and fair interest on the capital