CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 November 1913, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

|Our correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility o.L editorial ones makes suihcient ballast for the editor's shoulders.]

HIE L'S 1) UST RIAL STOILVIY

I.'EXCELS

(To the Editor).

Sir,—Un Saturday evening more of the soap-box orators occupied the foothold, and gave vent to ilieii ]jeisonul spleen against the siak of unrest, and the crimes of modern society. Tlie cause of the strike was enlarged upon/ but nothing seemed to come forth bearing on the great third party (arbitration or not) who have to sulfer accordingly—to wil, the general public. To detail ail the diatribes and specious pleading to outsiders and birds oi a ieatlier oil Saturday evening does not appeal to yours truly. However (this word was often m quotation, i noticed), I aver again that these agitators are the scabs, out and out. The epithet hardly becomes a decent mouth, but nevertheless, it is adaptable and transferable, it is only cancerous for the cantankerous. The mosquito w objected to by the majority of humans owing to the way he or it getc its living. What are the great points of difference between the pest and the breed of flitters one terms agitators?' In New Zealand the term "the poor are always with us" seems absurd and out of place—poverty appears illogical. There is the old adage or law "whoever will not work neither shall he or she eat." This applies to all of the able-bodied; not the unfortunate. But in what category can we place the pool agitator- rich drones at the expense of the working bees of tlie ila.v, watersiders or any of those who have a place in the national .hive of our community. Agitators in or out of their natural element ("quod") when outside or let loose .seem to me to have a certain pride in their convictions. The question must crop up to our notice: what is the status of these migratory birds or pests in the body politich They haven't any. OnJy by brazen self-assertion and strictly adhering to the something-for-nothing rule they manage to caich the eye and ear and the collection plate of irresponsibles and colonial "Arries. AVhen one has heard Parry only once one can tell his voice and manner ever after, and one concludes that is the stamp of man who has to move on. TJk seditious appeal by certain spouters, the utter flaunting of the Red Flag as it were, the reviling of all laws, and the vivc la disorder and anarchy concluded at eight : three cheers being given for spouters (and those under lock and key) by the local array of healthy, wealthy terroists.■-I am, etc., OHI-IKE. Shannon, November 10.