A POINT FOR SOCIALISTS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 17

A POINT FOR SOCIALISTS.

D,xir Sir,—The elections have come »nd gone, and many lessons can be irom the results, that will fcorieli , . us in the future. A question I W'ViM like a little space to discuss is, iV/iiv wa3 the Socialist vote so small yi ChristchurchP There were two men in the field representing the Socialist Party, in the persons of Messrs. Cooke and Howard, and yet the combined vote was only 943. Now, I am not a Revolutionary* Socialist; I em jiut a plain Socialist, and in my ©pinion the reason for the smallness of the vote 13 not far to seek. If the Socialist Party would spend more of t'j«?ir time preaching pure and unadulterated Socialism, and less time to 'discussing the methods and tactics of o*fier organisations and individuals, t'lAir vote would very soon largely Take a case in point, the Salvation Army (the most successful organisation the world has «?-.">r s?en)— they never waste any of their time discussing the methods emp'.v/Ad by other religious bodies; they epotkl all their time and energy in pr.vicliin" salvation from sin, hence (•(•Mr success. Let the Christchurch fiKulist Party devote their whole time nrri energy to"preaching Socialism, and I v.Miuire' to predict that in three v-WTi' time the Socialist vote in C::i:ir.church will run into thousands insv-ad of hundreds. , TT^m Cac'ji. A PLAIN SOCIALIST.