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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 511, 27 September 1890, Page 3

It seems that Mr Ne'qan aeted very rashly in recently sending a telegram- that now was the time tn knock Unionism on the head. It is stated that Mr John Burna has been communicated with qn the subject, and that the melter will not be allowed to rest. Nelson Bros, have a large business in England, besides their colonial connection.

Prince Bismarck la amusing himself (says the London Spectator) with talking to interviewers. to whom he makes speeches, as he used to do in the Reichstag, whioh look frank, and are just as frank as he pleases. He says, for example, that Napoleon HI. once proto him to drive England out of the Mediterranean, and that he disconcerted him ; rut what possible aid could Prussia have given towards that project ? We must also quote his extraordinary view of the labour question I— *• The discontent of working men,” said the Prince to the correspondent of the Novoe Vremya, •" is a kind of violent fever, but the dissatisfaction of capitalists is worse and more serious for the State. The existence of factories depends not upon the workmen, but upon the masters; and’ these must be considered, or it will be a far more serious matter. The majority of working men are not terrib'e. Les minoritAs turtulantes font la lot." Working men, he added, can never be contented.. Nobody is ever contented in Western Europe, or will be till beliefs change; but what does the Brines mean by the first sentence ? That all capitalists if too much irritated, will strike, and so, by throwing all workmen into the streets, produce a tremendous social convulsion ? That Is not a sensible suggestion. A threat of that kind was, we have read, addressed by the great employers of labor m Paris to the Provisional Government, but it came to nothing. Grave disorder can never be the interest of capital, which, if deprived of a fair return, retreats silently and slowly to some place where interest is still obtainable, It cannot retreat if a revolution is raging, money unprocurable, and figed plant worth nothing to sell.

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