A BOY'S IMPRESSIONS OF HARTLEY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 39, 1 December 1911, Page 6

A BOY'S IMPRESSIONS OF HARTLEY.

The following is .a bona fide letter sent from a scliool lad to his father at Wellington :—= , ■■''■'. Dear Dad, —We are all keeping fine, and ai'e glad j 7 ou are also. The weather s lovely here just now. On, Sunday we went to hear Mr. Hartley, and ho is ill right. He put things to the people ii a better way than Scott Bennett, • I think. He made the people roar, the way he did things. He imitated the swells by walking along with his arms folded, and the people roared with laughter. He told us all about the factory owners and merchants who pay men so much money and the goods each man makes are worth a lot more than the men are paid for doing them, thus making the merchants rich. At the end many people asked questions. One man said: "Aren't there any Socialist merchants who try to make money?" and Hartley said iTes." mit the Socialist merchants tell their men they are fools if they work too hard." He also told us about the bills , which are piit in the towns or in papers saying a certain number of hands are wanted for work, but when it comes to election times it is ladies and gentlemen, and also when they are cadging after you. He told us once he was talking to a, certain merchant, who asked if this was alright. This is something like what he said: ' 'Ten hands wanted for my factory," and when Hartley read it he said, "What about the. eyes?" but the man.did not know what h© meant till he told him. Well at any rate he was all right, a-nd did some good, I think. I hope this letter finds you well, Dad., so best love from Jack to dear dad.