Office -Holding.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 May 1914, Page 3

Office -Holding.

(By Walt Mason.)

A man holds office for a while, and bleeds and dies in flossy style, to save our bulwarks from decay, and tiien upon a fateful day he finds he is an also ran—the office job has dumped the man. And does he then gird up his loins} and 'say: "I'll go and chase the coins a 8 in the sunny days gone by, ere I began to bleed and die? ,. Ah, no! He's done with useful toil; you will nob see him till the soil, or curry down old Dobbin's legs, or scratch around to find the eggs. He will not plant the corn in May, or bale the fragrant, juicy hay, or paint the fence or prune the trees, or herd the humble bumble bees. The office germ is in his brain, and all your pleadings are in vain. He has no use for sweat-earned kale; he'll camp upon the party's trail, wllere all the dreary has-beens throng, and beg for hand-outs from the strong. He'd rather have some dinky job awarded by the "statesmen" mob than ornament his native town by holding sane position down. You learn a lot of tricks and guile, yon lose your grip on things worth while, to useful work you close your eye, when once you've learned to bleed and die.