Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-17

the government, and are giving much
better service than any of our rail-
roads giving free transportation in
many cases to encourage settlement
of the government lands. The gov
eminent is large employer of labor,
so that no person is without good
wages least from IS to S12 week.
This has emptied the jailS, and a
tramp is as rare as millionaire.
"These conditions have practically
been brought about by the votes of
organized labor-in fact, labor unions
dominate everything in New Zealand.
Forty-eight hours constitute a week
in almost every kind of labor, and a
violation of this law is severely pun
ished. A weekly half-holiday is as
generally observed here as Sunday is
in the United States
Extract from a speech of Hon. John
@. Bell of Colorado, delivered in the
house of representatives:
''Mr. Connolly, our representative
at Auckland, New Zealand, some
years ago reported to this government
that for many years concentrated cap
ital had possession of this fertile lit
tie country that the people became
desperate, filed the legislative halls
with the middle and laboring classes,
and wiped out, as it were, the law of
competition of all public works. That
government in building it's railroads,
dirt roads and public buildings, bridg-
eS, etc., did not put them up to the
highest bidder, but had the state en-
gineer estimate the real value of
roads, public buildings, bridges, ETC.,
made it's specifications and then adj
vertised to the laboring men, who
prepared and organized for the pur-
pose of completing this work as per
plans and specifications, and he re-
ported that the men did organize in
divisions, the strong and robust tax
ing the most difficult parts and leav-
ing the easier parts for the old and
less able
TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND EX-
PRESS.
The government also owns the tele-
graph and telephones, the rate being
about 500 per cent less than "our'
Western Union monopoly. Both pay
profit. The workers enjoy the eight
hour work day and the weekly half
holiday. The government also con-
ducts the express business for the
benefit of the people. Civil service
rules in alI departments. The cost of
sending message in New Zealand is
less than half what it is with us. A
message can be sent 1000 miles in
New Zealand for II cents. Excluding
the Maoris or Indian population
(about one-sixteenth of the whole
the people of New Zealand send four
messages each per year, or four times
as many per head as our own people
send. Every telegraph operator over
there is a s'public officer, unremoyable
except for cause, sworn to secrecy and
subject to punishment as a felon
should he ,divulge the contents of a
message" Each message is numbered
when received and dispatched, the
exact time is noted upon it. and no
one, no matter from or to whom sent.
can obtain precedence over an earlier
one.
Mr.. Kolkins, writing from New
Zealand to the New York Journal,
says:
Zone of the pleasantest features of
railroad ride in this country is to
witness the children focking to the
trains in going to or returning from
school They get on the train as if
they owned it, and no one asks them
for tickets. They ride free of charge.
Stations are provided at frequent in
teryals, and each one is a postohice,
telegraph and telephone Office. and a
savings bank as well as railroad and
express office. as the government con-
ducts ali these classes of business.
Think Of the saving in once ex.
| penses BY this system. and you s7ill b