Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 13, 2 June 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY

LFor The Maoriland Worker.] Riso up ye workers in your might. Tho' empires and kingdoms fall; From dark gloom into glorious light Com«« Demos King of all.

No longer workers shall ye toil Till aged prostrate fall; A light to guide and tyrants toil Co*n«!K Demos King or all.

I*o more, O nations, shall y-o go To fight at masters' call; Ah brothers all can ye be for With Demos King o f all.

O toilers all of every land Hark I to the clarion call Welcome Demos, hand in hand JAnd crown him King of all. C. E. Lambert * * *

We cannot divide thought and toil.' To divide them is tragedy for both. 0* * * *

Tlio trust deliberately organises to eliminate competitors for its own benefit. Socialism will do the same. But i ruler Socialism ALL will benefit.

Socialism may come like the cyclone, unexpectedly, but nevertheless inevitably- Likelier it will come by wise men harnessing the economic forces and ruling them.

Unless the Socialist Party is prepared to take the place of the Labour Party, what the devil does it mean by slicing up that party? And if the L.P. isn't acting correctly, what else shall, unless the S.P. accepts the responsibility?

The Boy Scout Movement has been growing and making headway in unexpected places. Like all movements of the kind under capitalism, it is designed to furnish effective servants to the capitalist class.

'Possibly becarise of an excess of emotion and joy at the thought of the coming coronation, people in India are flying at the rate of 25,000 a day. Yet ib may not be emotion that is killing thorn/ The reports state that "hunger prevails everywhere. The poor, devoted patriots may have been starving themselves to save money to attend the festivities that are to cost tens of millions of dollars.

CONSOLATION

An old Glasgow couple, who were in etraitened circumstances through unemployment, wrote to their son in Australia telling him the position they wero in, and that if they did not get lielp soon they would have to go in the poor house. Some time elapsed when fjack came a letter from their son saying :-— Mithor and Farther, try »ndl hand oot for three weeks longer, aand I'll come hame and go in along wi' you."

Tho worried ' scout-master waked Little Willie, the boy-sccmt sentry, from a deep sleep. He pull-ed out his note-book. ''Now," he snarled, "you liavo been found asleep at your post. Iα timo of war such an offence is punishable by death. If it occurs again I shall fine you tuppence !"

*'T ask you to think with mc that the worst that can happen to us is to endure tamely the evils that we see; that iso trouble or turmoil is so bad as that; that the necessary destruction which reconstruction bears with it must be taken calmly ; that everywhere—in State, in church, iji tho household—we

must be resolute to endure no tyranny, accept no lie, quail before no fear, although they may oome before xis disguised as piety, duty or affection, as useful opportunity and good nature, as prudence or kindness."—William Morris.

This is the story' of another minerhero, name of Frank Smith, Maorilander. Smith and Joseph Bates were working on the Roiind Hill (Southland, MX.) Co.'s claim, sinking a paddock, or hole, in drifting sand, when somehow Bates's leg was jambed in the pipe of the big suction pump which was keeping the shaft clear of water and sludge. The leg was smashed and the pump put out of action. Smith, a youngster, just turned 20, held up the injured man and worked with a crowbar to wrench open the mouth of the pipe wide enough to get the broken limb clear. How long he worked nobody knows, but lie held up his injured mate so long that at last the rising slime pinned him as in a qxiieksand. What followed in the dark, with the filth climbing slowly up their bodies, no man will know nor wish to know. The midnight shift found their coats floating on the drift, and when the shaft had been pumped clear Smith was still holding up his mate. Where Men go at the finish they had staked out a new claim together.—Sydney "Bulletin."

London Stores, Ltd., Melbourne, is to be floated as a limited liability coy. with a capital of £100,000, 30,000 worth of shares held in. reserve, the vendors to receive 30,000 in £1 shares, 40,000 shares to bo offered to the public. This business comprises five shops. Whether you like co-operation for use or trustification for profit, you are bound to have one or the other. Which do you prefer ?

"The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employer to refuse to labour."—Judge Higgins. * * *

So long as we love, we serve. So

lone; as we are loved by others I woiild almost say we are indispensable; and no man is'useless while li-o has a friend —Stevenson.

The latest American Labour papers to come over to the support of the Socialist Party are "The Union Labour Record" (Seattle), "The Labour Record" (Galesburg Ills.); "The Labour News" and "The Workers' Tribune" (Alliance O.). There soon will be none of the old school left.

Trebor: The curse of the New Zealand trade union movement is the time-server. The man who takes a paid position in. a Union and sleeps on it, Jives on it, loafs on it. Taihoa. Knowing the ignorance of the workers he sets the ignorant to fight the few militant spirits who are doing what should be his work of instilling the true Socialist philosophy into their fellows. He uses all the wiles of the accomplished politician to discredit militant efforts—base innuendos about "breaking the Union up," "getting away with the funds" — ami thus arouses needless enmity to keep himself snug.

Judge Higgins: '"'The employer thinks all this registration in wages a defiance of natural law." The employers' machinery is evidently in conformity with natural law when it casts a thousand workers from the factory into outer darkness. Eh, what?

'■In conclusion, permit mc to say that I am nob asking the mercy or leniency of this court. I have committed no crime and there is festering in my conscience no accusation of guilt, but if my conviction and punishment will serve to rivet public attention tipon the abuses which I have tried to pointout, then I shall feel that I have not suffered this humiliation in vain.

"After all, this is the price of liuman progress. Why should I expect immunity? The- courts hare ever been and are to-day the bulwarks of the ruling class. "Why should they not punish offenders against that class?"—

Eloquent extract from Warren's Federal Court Speech. ■* #- ■*

It was the ringing words of GI"S-

TAYE HERA"! , : at the Stuttgart International Socialist Congress that roused proletarians the world over into militant opposition to WAR, and that struck terror into the hearts of the economic masters of society from Germany to Japan. This was the clarion call that will some day render impossible capitalist wars and all wars between the nations of the world: "The Congress .... calls upon all comrades, in view of the diplomatic incidents which, coming from all qxiarters, threaten European peace, to answer any declaration of war, from WHATEVER side it may come, by military strike and INSURRECTION.' ,

The internationalism of the Socialist movement was well illustrated in a conference which has been held between six Socialist members of the Dutch Parliament and eight representatives of the Socialist group, in the Belgian Chamber, to deliberate upon the proposed fortification of Flushing. A resolution was carried unanimously declaring that it was the duty of Socialists to upset a scheme which could only serve as a pretext for the increase of militarism in Europe.

M-elb. "Socialist" answers a correspondent : "Our correspondent makes the common mistake of supposing that the calling out of military or police in times of disturbance makes for peace and order. Exactly the contrary is the case. Nothing incites a crowd to violence so much as the presence of an armed force to repress them, while in riots and street brawls most of the harm is generally done by the soldiery or the police. At the Peterloo "riots," for example, all- the killing was done by the militia, the crowd being, ay usual, perfectly orderly. When you put a man in uniform and give him a gun or a sword, he will not be happy till he has shot or stabbed somebody, and he generally chooses the wrongs person.

"Dingoes of Civilisation" was », phrase coined by Sir Thomas Mcllwraith (Queensland) £o describe th« Jay Goulds and "Vanderbilts Mho were twenty years and more ago the boss Trust magnates. The dingo is a detested cur, a sort of degenerate dog. We were interested in reading the other day that Mr. A. Le Soeuf, director of the Sydney "Zoo," reckons that the ancestors of the dingo were undoubtedly introduced into Australia when the progenitors of the mainland Australian blacks arrived in the great island continent. In excavations made in pursuance of scientific research no traces of dingo remains have been found to any great depth. No doubt the animal had inhabited Australia for thousands of years, biit, in comparison with the characteristically Australian marsupials, the kangaroo, the wallaby, and others, the dingo is quite a modern intruder. Village dogs of low type, which bear a close family resemblance to the dingo, are to be found in some parts of India at the present day.

* * * A CAPITALIST WAR.

The autobiography of the late General Sir W. F. Butler,, who took a prominent part in the Boer was, has been given publicity. The late general makes gome startling allegations regarding tho events leading up to the war in, South Africa. He says he repeatedly warned the British Government that war was imminent, but his warnings were disregarded. He attributes his recall to his refusal to co-op-erate .in provoking a Avar. He states that prominent Englishmen in South Africa brought the war tension to breaking point, and then asked him to send home false Teports.