Political Pellets.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 10

Political Pellets.

Supposing Lloyd George's Invalidity and l-ncmploynicnt Bill does do what it promises—and it's a terrific supposition —will it, can it. remove from 3England the length of its awful povertyline and the stnm of its stricken submerged tenth? The Home Rule envoys are confident that Home Ruk- for Ireland is gained bur the .shouting. Payment of members, rather. By what" twisted development did it come to be thought right "and proper for the national work to he performed for nothing, and thus by the wealthy a lone P When I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of iiigh genius, the first question 1 a.sk about him is always —Does he work? —liik-ikin. A sonra.tion lias been caused by the Buenos Ayrrs newspaper ".La Argentina",' : stut.no; that tho majority of the roeent land 'sales near Buenos Ay res have been bogus. Philip Snowdon, Labour M.P., -peaking at f.ondon, .said that s.nc& LdhO Great Britain has .spent £."){X),OOr),(.XK> on war, and of this huge sum £100,000.000 would he spent m the Di-cseiit year. This represented 4-iii pVr htad,*or 4:s per week for every wording itsari's family. It was not true that trade foiknved the flag; it followed the price-list. "I am tired," says Horace Traubel :;;)niew!>r-re, "1 am tired of hearing that the la.'xnuer is worthy of his hire. 'J he truth is, he is worthy of his product! God said: I. vm tired of kings, 1 suffer them no more, Up to mine ear the morning brings "The outrage of the poor. I will have never a noble, Nor lineage counted great; Fishers, and choppers, and plowmen •Shall' constitute a state. —Emerson. Australian Minister for External Yffairs, Batf-helor, .sarcastically referred to tho' throat that Mr H. V. McKay was about to erect a- factory in England. Mr Barohelor said that as he understood it this move had been contemplated before, and apart from the implement makers , strike. __ Commerce knew no geographical bounds. When Mr McKav had" wanted more protection lie had waved the Australian flag enthusiastiealJv, and had appealed i'or resistance to an essentially Australian industry. Later Mr McKay had led the fight against the Act passed to better the conditions of Australian workmen. The removal of the industry from Australia would seem to bo a fitting climax to the whole unfortunate business. Yet labour troubles were not unknown in England, Europe, America, or even Japan. 1 erhaps China offered the best iicld for those Australians who, though nurtured in the lap of protection, wanted to take their industries where industnai troubles would cease. Bernard Shaw on. Wm. Morris: — "Morris brought to the professed Socialists of the Leagues and Federations a conception or life which they never assimilated, and concerning which they could teach him nothing; whilst on'the general public, already educated to &ome extent by Kuskm, v "•aired to an extent which Morris himself wa* the last to realise. The Socialists boast-d of him as their tame great man; and ail the ttkimpolcs and Autolvcus'es in the ranks borrowed money from him unmercifully, besides occasionally dragging him from his bed with untimeTly application for prompt bail at police"stations. It is true that tiiese oood-for-nothings were very fev\ : n number, but in capacity tor worrying Morris, and wasting his time, they easily outdid the whole capitalist system against which he was warring. Tho hair-raising paradox istG K. Chesterton, is like our girl. With alt his faults we Love liim still. In serious mood on "The Coming Slavery" he recently said: —"I am only concerned to point out the direction in which things are moving. It often occurs to mc that there is only one thing the matter with the poor, and that is that they hare no money—(Hear, hear, and laughter) — but the tendency of legislation has not been in the direction of giving the poor more capital. The tendency lias always been towards bossing the "poor more and more, and so I say that there appears to be coming upon us a vast slavery of the lower classes, not because any one is trying specially to tj'rannise over them, but because the curious thing called 'social reform , has taken the form of giving tho people, let mc say, none of the carrots but only the kicks of social reform."