THE 'TRADESMAN'S ENTRANCE'

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 6

THE 'TRADESMAN'S ENTRANCE'

" OR SEEING IS BELIEVING. An amusing story, the truth of which is vouched for by an actual spectator of tho incident, conies from Sydney. Tho narrator, who may bo called Air. A., with a friend (Mr. B), was having an argument with a trades unionist ot the agitator class, tho subject of the debate being, in effect, that ihe rise of Labour meant the extinction of all social distinctions, tho levelling down of class superiority. At length Mir B. remarked: ''Lookhere —you talk about levelling down. Very well, come along and I'll show you something." So saying, ho piloted 'his friend Mr. A. and the agitator to the private residenco of one of tho Labour. Cabinet Ministers—an imposing edifice —and pointed to it. "Whai'do you think of all this magnificence?" ho said to the agitator. "Personally. I don't object to it-. If he can afford it, then by all means let him. Now, cr.mo round here," and so saying he led the way. round to a sido entrance to tho mansion, and pointing to a legend above the doorway : "Tradesman's Entrance," lie asked: "And what do you think of that,?" Tho agitator stared at ill? legend, choked, and then exploded. "That's the end of lim —he's finished," he declared, • excitedly. "Tradesman's Entrance! Why lie's always telling us that wo'ro ' all equal I"