CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 13 February 1909, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

LUX OR NOX ?

They’ve been writing to the papers, j tearing fibre all to rags, Some reckon it’s Manilla, and some say the wage that drags The market price to bed-rock with a rattle and a bump ; But, Lux, old man, your letter—well, it gave us all the hump ! Take my advice, before your next effusion can be mailed, Get up-to-date on pen - names, Lux take on “ The Light that failed.’’ Disraeli said that, next to facts, the best things to mislead Were figures, and you’ve proved it, for we’ve only got to read Your letter when you figured out the mills that had been closed. Say did you guess those figures, Lux, or dream them as you dozed ? Did you never as a youngster learn what future was entailed For such as roughly handled truth ? 0, Lux—The Light that failed ! It’s the royalty that ruins (wer’o a democratic race !). Let’s quit tinkering with symptoms, look it squarely in the face. Not the wages of the worker, but the increment unearned— That’s the thing you want to cut at, that’s the lesson to be learned. In vain across the track of truth tire labour herrings trailed, A brcast-liigb scent won’t cover up, 0 Lux —The Light that failed. It is miller versus grower—it’s not miller versus man; There’s the whole thing in a sentence, Lux, deny it if you can. Get in line this time with Labour, that’s the course your interests steer, For if you don’t the reason's shown, significant and clear, The auto-ear autocracy ot Hax-growers have prevailed On you to sink your cause in theirs, 0 Lux —The Light that failed. —-Te Arawa.