Political Pellets.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 7

Political Pellets.

It has always been dangerous to democracy, hurtful to humanity, when a Church held power presuming to speak with the lips of God. ■* ■* *

The best work in this life is done by those whose daily thought is "Tomorrow I may die."

' "ConfoxiJicl tlieir politics, frustrate their knavish tricks" is England's singing attitude to the rest o* the world. Beautiful Christianity, sublime .Brotherhood ! England's National Anthem is the poorest in the world —as poetry and as sentiment. It is doggerel and shoddy—altogether unworthy. Grand tune for meretricious spirit. Ketain the tune, and in the saturnalia of "Gorsave" sing instead sacred Comradeship." 'i'eacn the words to yotir children, who for weeks have heen stuffed with Coronation rubbish.

"What is the necessity, asks W. T. Mills, of England going to war with Gnermaiiy over her markets, seeing that England's best market is Germany ? * * *

The Labour Notes writer in " Lyttelton Times " says " What we want is β-nother John Ballance, and we nrust find him." But we have moved on eince the days of Ballance. What -wo don't want is a man, but rather the mass. And we want the mass for Industrial Democracy. Nothing else will serve.

The Secretary of the United Labourers' Union at Renmark (Aus.), says their main principle is the emancipation of labour by the abolition of the wages system. "We want disputes settled by conference," h.e said, *' but if the conferences fail we are for a general strike. Wo don't believe in arbitration." -

Cabled that King George has ordered a stand to be erected to enable the aged poor and children from workhouses to witness the royal procession on the 29th. Kindly meant, no doubt—but isn't it rubbing it in ?—Sydney " Worker."

Josiah Thomas, Australian M.P., delivered an address on '" The Nemesis of Nations " at the Wesley Church, in which lie said that history recorded that empires in the past, relatively as great as ours, had been brought to destruction and ruin because of slavery and the oppression of the weak by a powerful minority ; because they had shown the converse of that wise picture depicted by Isiah, " My people L/uild. houses and inhabit them." Wo had the seeds of corruption within our Empire when our people were not housed or fed properly. Of the people ■who died in England fully five-six hs left behind them only a little cheap furniture and clothing ; they had been all then? lives close to starvation. If the heart ©f the Empire was rotten it could not last. Unless the slavery of wagedom was abolished and the common people liberated, our civilisation, so-called, could not last.

The use of false hair, false'teeth, wooden legs, or "hobble" skirts is prohibited by law in Texas —but Texas still leaves false politics alone.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all ether countries because you were Vorn 111 it. —Bernard Shaw.

Premier Wilson, of Westralia, now drunken with Empire in England, was jon-ce a shop assistant. In the days of this i>oil ho was a fiery agitator and pronounced rebel. Circum.3tanoes do alter cases. Some "great men" forget when they were up against poverty .and bossism; others don't. ITrank .Wilson isn't one of th© latter.

Shampire Day is how th© " Bulletin" put it. * * *

The G-reymouth correspondent of the "Star" telegraphs to the"Colonist ■Jjhat an interesting rumour in connection with the coming r-e-distribution of seats is current, to the effect that tihe Motueka electorate will be pushed B-outhward as far as the Buller river, while Mr. Colvin's constituency (the Buller) will also be extended south, £o as to take in Cobden and Runanga. "fifoe report also has it that the Westland, electorate is to b-e extended farther north, thus extinguishing the Orey electorate, making it sphere is a design either against Mr. "ptuinness or the electorate which he lias represented for so many years. The report emanates from Wellington. A certain feature of the change it is eaid will be that Mr. Michel, Mr. T. •3E. Y. Seddon, and the Hon. A. R. Guinness will be fightimr in the one constituency.