A Truth or a Lie?

Maoriland Worker, Volume 1, Issue 4, 15 December 1910, Page 7

A Truth or a Lie?

I have often heard the master class say, that the men who work with their hands are of no benefit to themselves nor to anyone else unless they have a boss to drive them. I ha?/e never heard that insulting expression used but what it made my blood boil in my veins, as I came from a race of what the master class is pleased to duu common people, and I know that those who work with their hands possess as great an amount of brains as those whose hands are soft from idleness. But after I watch the colour of the ballot which is cast by the average man who works with his hands, I often wonder if the master class are not correct, as those who work with their hands seem to enjoy slavery and persist in casting their ballots to elevate slave drivers to office. If this slur of the master class is correct, and the slaves, by their ballots seem to prove that it is, then the science of Socialism is a fallacy., and those who believe in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man are fools, and their publications should be debarred from the mails and their editors should be hung. What say ye, Mr Workingman ? If the master class are liars, then why will you not register your disapproval of their insult at the ballot box this fall, and cast your ballot with the only political party that resents this infamous lie—The Socialist Party.—The National Ripeaw.