Comments: Common and Caustic.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 9

Comments: Common and Caustic.

Hone't.v—in the Worker—is +be best policy—for the OanitaliH. Did you ever see a capitalist who vnuH -"ot promptly repudiate a monetary obligation if he could legally do so? Down with conscription. Justice may be blind, but the Courts have a queer knack of following the results recorded by the ballot-box. An old Tady at Market Drayton, England, reported that her cow had died of "land tax" (anthrax), "Land tax" seems to be scaring a good many rent receivers f over there just now. What a pity it is nothing more than a scare. In 1896, Professor .Walter Thomas Mills, now lecturing in New Zealand on Socialism. was known throughout America as the "Little Giant of Prohibition." and was smiting Booze and Boodle from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. It is stated that, remembering these thinrrs. the New "Zealand Prohibition Council is negotiating with him to tour the Dominion in the interest of No-Li cense. In a single campaign of Napoleon's over 150.000 boy,=i under twenty years of age were d"f= 4 No wonder this monster in human form eric 1 to the mothers of France for more sons. "And the b r ind shall see!" said the prophet. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says: "The forces of concentration and alliance are irresistible, and the practical question is how they may be used for the public benefit." And the Chioasn "Tribune" says: "Whichever view is riorht the law of economic tendency hap been working in silemt. majestic indifference to laws and lawmakers. Combination and concentration have gone forward a-d the transformation which was viewed w'th such plarn-i the late eighties has been completed." "TTe always was a bad egcr. but no-ho-d-** seemed to notice it while he was rich." "Yes. bad ncrtyx are all right until 4.1, „„ 9re 'broke.'" Money is n. '•>-'-+•-.-»• than charity for rov°."iii£r a rmfti+iKle of sins. It was Jes>-ur> who s.aid : "The soldier is the only animal that does not eat what it kills." Socialism would destroy all ixidiVii„_ f ]; o say t] lo quidnuncs who oush nans for the pr-T'ss." "Ra+s. Tt is tv-dor ea-pitaMsm that the Worker's individuality is crushed out. No man who depends on another man or body of men for his livelihood is free —be he prierfc. professor or pol.'tician, p-iana ger. foreman or an ordinary wharf lumper. Only through economic freedom can the worker obtain mental and spiritual emancipation, and only through Socialism is economic freedom realisable. The singing of "Gor save" and the .•beers of the patriotic always bring to mind a saying by Anatole France. Here it is : "Patriotism is the sentiment which has inspired the most silly things, because it is the sentiment most easily accessible to fools '' Capitalists have steadily coiibended that the Socialist philosophy falls flat when applied to the land question, but