Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23

longer than the white people Of the United
States.
In 1900 workmens compensation act
was passed, which insures workers lives
or against permanent disability for 49,
100. AS this becomes the employers risk
he not only insures against 1t, but is
mighty careful that the conditions under
which his employees work do not expose
them to any extraordinary risk due to
his negligence. For in that case, he can
be sued for additional damages by the
person injured or by the estate Of the
man or woman killed We have similar
laws in a few of our States.
look for the minimum trouble be-
tween employers and employees in New
Zealand once the country becomes dry.
The efficiency of labor will lie greatly
improved and the Ego slow policy,
which was founded on the inability Of
the booze fighter to keep up, will dis
appear and the necessity for getting
wages back to the old basis in order to
reduce the cost of production will have
solved itself.
New Zealand Is more universally
unionized than any other country in the
world. Even the reporters on the news
papers belong to union and work only
eight hours a day. The destiny Of any
country depends to a large extent upon
the reliability Of its press.
Many misleading cables are published
in New Zealand from the United States.
This Is not the fault of the local pub
Usher or editor in New Zealond, whom !
have found most friendly and expressing
the greatest desire to work with the
United States, just as if we still were a
British colony. However, Washington is
far away and New Zealanders are so lit
tie acquainted with the standing of our
public men who introduce fool bills into
Congress that the editors are unable to
cut out the unfavorable propaganda
stun which is included with the cables.
SOME SAMPLES
OF THESE CABLES.
l will give you the essence Of three
cables as samples of many that have APP
peared since l have been In New Zealand.
The biggest joke we have among the
members Of our lower house of Con
gress, a man who always is introducing
some fool resolution or bill in order to
get himself into the newspapers, intro
duced a bill to send a minister to the
so called Irish republic" The story
was duly cabled and published here OF
course the publishers here did not know
that nobody in the United States pays
any attention to this Congressman and
Furthermore that all OF our foreign re-
latio1s are handled by the Senate our
upper house and not by the lower house
The correspondent who put this story on
the cable knew better and hurt his
country.
Another sample is a story that fire.
quently is cabled-that the United States
is going to put an embargo or an ex-
port tax on something used in New
Zealand that comes from the United
States
In the first place, our Constitution pro-
vides against an export tax and. in the
second place, an embargo can be laid
only in time of war. The cable editor
in the United States who passed such a
story as this either is densely ignorant
Of the laws Of our country or has sell
fish motives for reporting that which
is untrue and impossible.
Another cable from the United States,
received and published by the news
papers in New Zealand while was there.
reported n British cabinet member had
given out an interview in London in