Title: The Financial Condition of New Zealand; Facts and Figures for the People. Being a plea for a more equitable adjustment of taxation, etc

Author: George W. Cole

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Oh Fountains! when in you shall I
Myself, eas'd of unpeaceful thoughts, espy?
Oh Fields! oh Woods! when, when shall I be made
The happy Tenant of your shade?
Here's the Spring-head of Pleasure's Flood,
Where all the Riches lye that she
Has coin'd and stamp'd for Good.

—Cowley.

"And everywhere a doleful and monotonous spectacle, the women and girls who toil all day with feverish energy for their miserable wage. Every where the life that is not life; the same slavery, the same oppression. The Children of Gibeon (Besant).