NEW CHUMS. AND OLD CHUMS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 17

NEW CHUMS. AND OLD CHUMS.

•" Dear Comrade, —It is with surprise that I see you allow any Socialist of the calibre of "Citizen" to deliberately insult unfortunate members of my class without a reason, but I can see running right-through the- lines of Ids ar-: tide ."Child Immigration" that colonial animus to the new chum. Now, 1 should think that once a. man has become converted to Socialism, he should throw to oii'O side his narrowness of mind, and not commence discriminating between country and country. Capitalism is international; so is Socialism. Now, ho says we havo waste lands, but we don't want them peopled by waste humans. What a gross insult to offer a poor little child who has had the great misfortune to have lost- both its parents while young, and being left alone in the world, it has been" housed in the workhouse. Why; some of our best men and women today can. look back on tho time when they lived in the workhouse. Of course, "Citizen" may think that because a boy comes here to this country with his father and mother (who have £100 in tlie bank and also weak backs and weaker hearts and very soft hands) that that same boy cannot be a hooligan, and that the poor workhouse child can u-ovcr become a gentleman. Does "Citizen" mean to maintain that the now chums, young and old, do not compare favourably with the old chums physically, mentally, and morally? '"Citizen" again says that. henceforth the label of the Dominion will be, "•Rubbish shot here." "Citizen" had better lie low, or he will be in danger of stopping that shot. Now, the last skit about empire is the sentiment of even a lot of colonial Socialists. Too much England! The Empire means England and England alone. All this is the outcome of a weak brain and a very, vory narrow mind. Now, if the Socialist movement is to bo as sueeesful as it can be, all that narrowness will have to be got rid of. — I am, etc., Auckland. " WM. MURDOCH.