"GAME COCK" ON SOCIALISM.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 May 1913, Page 2

"GAME COCK" ON SOCIALISM.

(To Llif Kditor"!. Sir. .Mr Lexer's twist about the iKiJilinij; fowls is a clever one, but lie should say ferret. If ferret* were coming to liis yard ho a i»11 Id be (|iiiek enough to train li is dou; to repel the invader, and it : tlio doji pleaded he had no stake in tin; Inwlyard .Mr would ask him \ arioiis (ji lesLions about social economy. If a man stole all Mr Lexer's liens. .Mr l/o<j;cr no doubt would appeal to the law. quite rightly. liut the law is based on and the nower of the community to cnforcc its will 011 every individual. "What is true of each community is true

■■I' each country and each nation. Tf New Zealand as a whole is not able !o defend herself with military force against any nation desirous of subjugating her she will go under. "Socialism'' won't save her: neither nolif ically nor from war. Tin- world's history shows that Irom two tn three thousand years ago in the Uomau empire down to less than a hundred years .ago in France. Socialism is like crystal gazing: you can see many things while you dream. '111( unless yon bustle for yourself vim will get main hungry. Yours, etc.. OA ME CflFfK. Kimlierley lioad. May 20lh. 1013.