Comments: Common and Caustic.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 19, 14 July 1911, Page 10

Comments: Common and Caustic.

Beelzebub will not cast out Beelzebub. Neither will capitalism abolish capitalism. People of Christchurch declare that the Council's by-law against speaking in Cathedral Square has been "cooked." But that is nothing to the "roasting" in store for some of the cotmcillors. A sensitive young artist named Ernest Goes, who could not bear to have his work criticised, caused a sensation at a Budapest art exhibition by tearing

down his own rhcture and slashing it to pieces with a knife. First part of his name seems all right, for he takes things in earnest. But why Goes now the picture is Gone, and it was Ernest Went for it. It was David McLaren who said : "It is immaterial whother there arc Wages Boards, Conciliation Boards, or Arbitration Courts, or any other system of regulating wages, as tho workers will never get justice out of the present economic system."—"Lyttelton Times," 1908.

How many subscribers can you get for The Worker? Have a try and see. Glasgow' corporation is for extending its own insurance department to cover all municipal property. The insurance companies have drawn from that city during the past quarter of a century £100 in premiums for every £24 paid for leas by fire. Earl Granville, speaking in the House of Lords, 1859:—"It is impossible to put an end to strikes. They arc the last resource of workmen—just as a Chancery suit is among litigants. The fear of them unquestionably exercises a wholesome influence on masters." And Earl Granville was no ReJutionary. "Ribbons and laces," guslies a fashion writer, "are cunningly planned into the fashioning of some of the smartest

tea-gowns, and many of these are simply 'dreams' of beauty." Pity it is such things remain only dreams, and nothing more. It is the nightmares of fashion that becomes the stern realities. At the No-license Convention held at Wellington, one of the speakers at the women's meeting said that the young women of New Zealand were going to form a union and pledge themselves thus: "Lips that touch wine shall not touch mine." Upon- which "West Coast Times" : "This would no doubt be a serious menace, if carried out here,, to some of our young "smoodgers," and has led our office boy •to remark: '' What O ! boys! What are you going to do about it?" Recalls to The Worker a clover pictorial skit in Syd. "Bulletin," in which was depicted

a beauteous maid of 65 or so, with scarecrow features, reciting before rapt audience, "The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine."