Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS If you've got a thought that's liappy, Boil it down; Make it short and crisp, and snappy,

Boil it down; Wii-en your brain its coin has minted, J>own the page your pen has sprinted, If you want your effort printed, Boil it down. ■Take out your surplus letter,

Boil it down ; flower syllables are better, Boil it down ; Make your meaning plain—express it fJo we'll know, not merely guess it; Theu, my friend, ere you address it, Boil it down. iSoil ont all the extra trimmings,

Boil it down ; Skim it well, then skim the skimmings—

Boil it down; .When you're sure 'twould be a sin to C?ut another sentence in two, Bend it on and we'll begin to

Boil it down.—Ex. ■X- ■«■

What infantile ridiculousness is it that makes a poor man "fork out" to give a rich man a present merely beeauso of the accident which named them both "George." By George, there seems no limit to popular asininity.

ON THE ROAD. Tho Fatman whirls by on his cushioned way. I see him frown as his motor passes; A peaceftil road and a bright blue day, Jβ ut ho fouls it all with his dust and gases. Tho rich man rides, And the poor man strides; E belong to tho walking classes. —Francis E. in "Bulletin." «■ * *

Cardinal Moran's troubles about the law of the land when the law of the land isn't Catholic towards "the sacrament of marriage. ,. It, is the law or the church, ho says, that must .be conformed to. A moral obtrudes. When the working-class has sense enough to put itself before the law it Trill break «,nd bend the law to suit tho workingclass. The Class can learn much from tho Church.

A noted clergyman was in his study writing. His five-year-old daughter esked nim what he was writing, "l am .writing a sermon, my dear." "How do yon know what to write, papa?" "God t>ells mo what to write." After watching her father for a few minutes, the iittlo girl said: ' 'Papa, if Ged tells you what to write, why do you scratch some »f it out?"

You Socialists in the Labor Party, why do you covertly derido the Socialist Party? Do you think you could be in the Labor Party as Socialists if it .Were not for the Socialist parties outside the Labor parties? If you're in (the L.P. in the interests of Socialism, you ought to be glad to see and to •upport a party all for Socialism.

Alf. Giles, a staunch and well-known unionist of Broken Hill, N.S.W., has written and sent to the authorities ♦he following protest against the registration of his son for tiae conscription: ; *'l emphatically protest against any ■on of mine donning the livery of licensed murder, or being trained and drilled in the ignoble art of slaughtering humanity at the behest of minions of the law, and I object strenuously to a law that may insist upon my son shooting mc dead when I refuse to scab upon my fellow unionists. Conscientiously I object."

Mr. E. Tregear, ex-secretary to the New Zealand Department of Labor, ■peaking at a meeting of the Labor Council of New South. Wales, referred

to the work of social reform which had been in progress throughout the world in recent years. He said it was certain that Labor was going to guide the destinies of the world. Capitalism looked upon the workers' movement as a nightmare, .but they would soon wake, 'because the capitalist regime could not last much longer. They could, not but see that the social edifice as at present instituted was doomed to fall. The Labor movement was going onward and upward. In its ranks were to be found the brightest and clearest spirits. All Laborites loved justice and hated oppression.

When the Governor has to issue a cadging appeal to the Georges of New Zealand to "stump tip" to the King George TTund it looks not only as if the humor-sense has departed, but as if Babyhood is reigning in high places.

Captain Hickey, D.S.O-, Assistant-Adjutant-General, according to the "Otago Daily Times," has not met one employer, amongst a large number interviewed, who expressed disapproval of the principle of compulsory military training. Not one employer—class instinct again. The employer never expects to be held in subjection by the military. That's for the- worker to expect and receive. * * *

What about your order and cash for 60 or 30 or less copies of our one-hun-dred-thousand number ?

Adelaide "Herald," a Labour daily, quite seriously runs its "Boy Scout" feature above the pseudonym of "Patriotic Paul." Pr-estirnably it has never seen the kiddies , paper in which "P.P." acts the goat to the delight of the young Harkaways.

Capitalism is the enemy and destroyer of essential private property. Its" development is through the legalised confiscation of all that the labour of the working class produces above its subsistence wage.

"There was no 'ism , in the world— Socialism, capitalism, or any other i sm —that would better the conditions

at present existing if religion could not. , ' Thus a parson. Could not— has not, friend, has not. And how do you know that Socialism can't better conditions. Give it a chance? You've had yours. ' * * *

Political power is only useful to the workers for the purpose of, overthrowing capitalism, Parliaments being assentially capitalist machines designed to enable that class to perpetuate class domination.

"Continental Socialism" is the Socialism, and don't you swallow anything different. * * *

Are you seeing that your "Union swings into line with the Labour Federation ? That's the way out' of sectional unionism.

As defined by the Marxians, the State could not possibly exist under a Socialist order. The State, as interpreted by the classic Socialists, is the organisation of force for tho maintenance of the existing relations of property and social rule. .It is based on class antagonisms, is the product of a class struggle. Thus, with the triumph of Socialism, and the disappearances of classes, the State would cease to exist. When the State becomes the representative of all classes, it ceases to be ia State. Its/ evolution endof lin a revolution.

The fifth day drew to its close, with the twelfth juryman still unconvinced. The Court wa* impatient, "Well, gentleman," said the Court officer, entering the juryroom, "shall I, as usual, order twelve dinners?" "Make it, ,, said the foreman, "eleven dinners and a bale of hay \"

Of parties pushed up, so to speak, by the entry of the Australian workers into the realm of political government, —there have been two —Liberal and Labour. The first did not satisfy, the second is not satisfying. A party that will satisfy is in the making— the Socialist Party. Liberalism, Labourism, Socialism—thus is the track

of evolution. From the standpoint of working-class emancipation, it seems clear as if Liberalism and Labourism have exhausted the possibilities of* error. Socialism cannot err, even if it would. It is emancipstion'a weapon. * * * "ONE GOOD SUIT DESERVES ANOTHER." A tailor who had committed some law business to the hands of an attorney well practised in his profession had a bill delivered to him containing such a variety of unexpected charges that ho theugiit himself fleeced most unmercifully. The only satisfaction which occurred to him was to prevail on the conscientious attorney to have a suit of clothes from him, for which ho in his turn gavo the following bluish s. d. To measuring and taking orders for suit ... ... 0. 6 8 ~ warrant and instructions co my foreman for executing the same ..." 0 6 8 ~ going three times to the woolen draper's ... ... 010 0 ~ fees to the woollen draper 4 4 0 „ cutting out the cloth ... /O 6 8 „ materials for working ... 1 1 0 „ trying the suit ... ... 013 0 ~ alterations and amendments ... ... ... 1 8 0 ~ entering it in my day book 0 10 6 „ posting it in my ledger 0 6 8 ~ engrossing the same ... 013 4 ~ writing to the button merchant 0 6 8 ~ filing his declaration (16 sheets) 0 16 0 ~ fees x> the .button merchant 2 12 0 ~ removing the suit from my house to Gray's Inn ... 1 1 0 ~ removing by certiorari from Gray's Inn to Surrey (your country house) ... 1 6 0 ~ writing out a receipt with stamp 0 12 0 ~ filing the same ... ... 0 6 6 ~ service of the same ... 0 5 6 „ ditto eight times more ... 2 0 0 £19 12 0

N.B.—Probably this was the cheapest suit of the two—i.e., best worth the money! Where was the Labor and where the Ability? Which was which?