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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 13, 2 June 1911, Page 9

I In Our Opinion.

BIAX is fallen. The dictator who a. year- ago iua.de hiinse.'i* Mexican President for the eighth time has bitten the. dust. Dictatorship moots its retribution. The rule of Diaz has been an. infamous rule- It is typified by a. brilliant Mexican's cartoon, which pictures Diaz grasping in 'his hand a blood-stain-ed sabre surrounded by vultures. sitting- oil a heap of tskulls. Ail who opposed Diaz met banishment, torture or deivtjh. Mexico has l>eeji full of slaves called peons whose awful lot baffles description. Eighty-one years of age, Diaz goes to "lis- grave an unseated Czar. It is fitting that he lives to see another Dictiitor jrone.

IT is Id be hoped that the workers oi the Labor Federation mid the Socialist Party will leave no stone unturned ut the forthcoming- elections to rout tihe Conscript ionists. Unless they do. New Zealand is like in hr trodden under the iron heel of Military Caste. Already is N.Z. overrun with uniformed dandies seeking prestige and power- AJ ready is tire, loquacious Maj ctr-General Godley the leading figure of the Dominion —paid of capitalistic Defence. It is it bad day for a land when the civilian is overshadowed by the. warrior. N.Z. w scheme, of military training is the arrogant a n<l tlcsnotic* Kitchener's, and not (he scheme popularised by the Hon. McNiil). The "defence" which is based upon fd-f/TCMiii is a, poc-r substitute for the patriotism which in the hour of need springs prandly to the re.~cui>. Organise working-clas.s vote** to be effective ut the elections.

K'I'UKP ATTACK'S luminous article in this paper on the Hoy Scouts is attacked by the scout.-bposter of the *" I, yr teuton Times" as "filthily- worded" pud "not fit for pub]nation in a decentpaper." .Somebody lias lost his temper —you can't boat a <lisvingui'.>hed author like Kirkpatrick by slinking: mud. J.-et us hear how and where, that article was '■'untruthful" and "filthy," yon contemptible Jib.ner. you "surprised" paraxon (i f virtue. iDost know that. .'Robert Bhitchford, for all his military mania, pays tribute to the greatness of Kirkpatriek's "Wai —What For:"" We repeat that Boy Scout ism is a move to dragnet our nascent manhood into upholding- If oval tv (which is a nti- Democrat ie) and Terri-tory-si abb ing- and "In dcpemlc- nee-killing', and all the. devices of Plutocracy. So with the Ciirl Scouts —they too are b<?iii?Jf organised have their freedojii-buruinr-r hcivrfs «terilise<l with "loyal" , lies. Both boy and girl scouts itr& foi-cver being: sermonised by ign.oj'ant tutoiv; wlio- put Jvin-g>hip before Godhead, or at lea.st make them identical.

THE Tv.ranaki Dairying and Farming- 'Union of Employers has refused to meet in conference, the Workers' Union until such time as the latter has _registered, under the Arbitrations Act. .Depend upon it, that. Act in time will be the centre of conflict, the employers fighting strenuou-.-ly for tlie Act. and the employees against it. All the employers' antagonism to the Act. has been a. mer«s blind: they know it is for them. It Avas part of the deceptive process to persuade the workers that the Act was for the benefit of Labor. That game is vp — and n.O'W the bosses p.ire out in th open for Arbitration. Will tho workers longer hug to their famished breasts the delusion of Arbitration? The da.iry e-";npU>yees will not, at: all events; they may be congratulated. "Trouble'" , is brewing, and surely the public will be on the side of men slaving 70 hours per week inclusive of Sunday work. "l'e-memb?r the Sabbath ])ay to keep it. holy" is a Commandment religious New Zealand has ignored where nif-rc toilers are concerned.

WE licar a lot about protecting "infant industries , ,'"' but the first infant industry calling fci , protection is tii J-; IXFAN'T industry, and tlie- proper way to protect it is to abolish sliun areas, jerry built shacks, low wages to fa (here and intermittent employment. There should be schools where girls could bo taught the ruoper roaring of babes, just as we have agricultural and dairy schools where boys are taught how to rear pigs — hat then there is profit in rearing piss and babes are expensive. If you doiPt believe it rend the article- by Lady -McLaren in "The World." This Goddess of Wisdom says:—"The child is no longer an asset; it is a financial 'burden, the man depended, for comfort upon the extra earnings of his children, and both parents regarded sons and (laughters as an insurance against starvation in their old age. Modern politicians have changed that condition of things!' 3 We have won-dere-d why the birth-rate in New Zealand has steadily declined. All sorts of explanations have been made, but most of them lacked the convincing element, Lady McLaren has discovered the t.i"ue cause. List: " The grrn/nting of Old Age Pensions is aiiereiful. Jiiit the effect on population will As certainly as old age is sheltered fx-oan want without i:he aid of ehikh'en. &» certainly will families be smaller-" You're quite right, your ladyship. Who would go to the trouble of Tearing children when all on? has gal", to do is to- toil mi till he is sixtyfivo and he will enjoy his ten bob a. week for Life? What does it matter that theaverage life of the worker is thirty-nine rears r What if no ciluldren are born, there will be no one to provide the pensions for the o!dr These are mere trifles