Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 25, 25 August 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

The Capitalist system makes criminals and then* taxes the people to pay for the punishing of them. * * * Aii empty-headed voter means a fullboll ied politician. ~ * * * Profits is the business of the employer. Profits are reaped by exploiting labor. See ? * * r. Horses, like men., are divided into classes—those who do tho least work are waited upon, housed and clothed with almost the same care a.s" the shirkers among men. * * * •When we divide the workers from tho shirkers and fight upon that issue there will be bad times in store for the shirker®. * . * • Blacker misery and more overwhelming drudgery seems to be the workers' share of the advance in the mechanical arts. * » * It is true that a sovereign to-day purchases more of the luxuries a.nd less of the necessities than formerly. • - • « About tho only right the average wage-slave enjoys is that of starving. If he tries to take his miserable life he oomo3' within the clutches of the law. .' ' * « * A rational state of society would, give to all the right to be lazy for at' least a small fraction of the year. I-.' The census returns reveal the fact that in England arid Wales it is the poorest and "least fit" portion of the population that is growing most rapidly ; there is hardly any change- in what -is-known,"as "the efficient and intelligent' , portion. '■ - - •■*; ■ * „ It is a great blessing if one is gifted with the possession of an adaptable conscience, such as the average capitalist possesses. The most unjust treatment is then excusable. .-•-■'.* * ■ * Until the workers know Socialism they arc the hopeless, victims of Capitalism. Spread the light! * ■ ■. ■ * * -Agitation is the. life of society. Be a ; ii agitator and get yowr neighbour or work mate grumbling ; that is the way to the -•fullest freedom. «• . *- * Because agitators are condemned by the. press and its followers is the surest .sign of their necessity . i The political action of the workers must have for its object the organisation of the workers for the overthrow of the present, svstom —not its reform. * * • The brightest hope of the workingclass> to-day lies in the decay of trades unionism and the growth of Industrial Unionism. k< •* • * As important as political action may be, it never surpasses or indeed equals the necessity of thorough industrial organisation. That is the way and the life of the working-class movement. * * * A mother once refused to turn over her child to King Herod. Why should mothers now turn their children over to the king of greed?—" Chicago Socialist." ' • • * ■ • Theoretically, the people rule; practically, wealth rules. Hence it follows that the people must' possess themselves of the wealth of the nation. Only where wealth is equitably distributed is freedom possible.—"Chicago Socialist." * * * Once upon a time, all the working men of the world were so discontented, some for want of work and others with low wages, that* they advertised; and presto! everyone of them got good jobs -right away as foremen. —-"The Public."

Industrial Unionism will put a pair of overalls upon the legs of every capitalist.—W. D. Haywood. • • , * "No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance."—Samuel Johnson. • • * The inhabitants of this singular planet have been reared in the notion that there are, nations, frontiers, and standards. They have such a feeble sense of humanity that in every nation it is completely effaced by the sense of the fatherland. . .' . It is quite truo that if those who think wished, to come to.an agreement, this situation iV-'uld change, for individually no one uesires Avar. . . . But there exists those political combinations which furnish livelihood for a legion of parasites.— l^lammarion. *#' * • That we should bring up our peasants to a book exercise instead of a bayonet exercise! Organise, drill, maintain with pay and good generalship armies of thinkers instead of armies of stabbers! Give prizes for a fair shot at a fact, as Avell as for a leaden splash on a target. What an absurd idea it sesins, put fairly into words, that the wealth of the capitalists of civilised nations .should ever como to support literature instead of war! —John Kuskiu. X: * W "The other day," said a man passenger in a street car, "1 saw a woman in a street car open a satchel and tako out a purse, close the satchel and open tho purse, take out -a coin and closo the purso, open tho satchel and put in tho purse. Then she gavo the coin to the conductor and took a" penny in exchange. Then she opened tho satchel and took out tho purse, closed tho satchel and opened the purse, pui in tho penny and closed the purse opened tho .satchel and put in the purse, closed the satchel, and locked both ends. Then sho felt to see if her back hair was all right, and it was all right, and she was all right. That was a woman."

"Blessings on him that first invented sleep; it wraps a man all round like a ■a cloak."—Saincho Panza. * ' * * ; Washington, with all his virtues, never" appealed to the imaginative mind after his inhuman refusal when •a child to tell an almost necessary lie.—lt. B. Cunningham Grahame. * * * "The remembered innocence and endearments of a child stajid us instead of virtues that have died older."— Leigh Hunt. * ','.#■ # In the House of Representatives'' at Washington (U.S.) Mr Kahn proposed that there should be a heavy tax upon the dowries of United States brides who married foreigners, "so that a pecuniary but titled fortune-hunter shall secure ■'but a small portion of the price which the bride pays him for the namo which ho himself dishonours by putting it up at axiction to the highest bidder." * * * THE WILD FIFES CRY. And "England, England, England} ,, I hoard the wild fifes cry, "We are here to rob for England, And to throttle Liberty." And "England; England, England," I heard the fierce drums roar, "Wo are tools for pious swindlers, And brute bullies evermore!" And "Tommy, Tommy. Tommy," I heard the wild fifes cry, "Will you never know the England For which men, not fools, should die? And "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy," I hoard the fierce drums roar, "Will you always be a cut-throat And a slavo for evermore?" And "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy," I have* , -hoard the wild fifes cry, <f lt is time to cease your fooling; It is time to do or die!" And "Johnnie, Johnnie, Johnnie/ , I heard the fierce drums roar, "It is time to break your fetters, And be free for evermore!" —Francis Adams.