MRS. DORA MONTENTORE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 44, 12 January 1912, Page 8

MRS. DORA MONTENTORE.

for." Our gifted comrade incidentally mentions that she was sorry to see the elections hinged so much oil the prohibition question, and not on tho Socialist question. "It is not that I minimise the importance of temperance in all things, but I don't believe in sidetracking the workers away from Socialism on ANY PRETEXT." Mrs. Monte bore urges Now Zealand to aid in getting a strong Australasian group (and some women comrades among them) as delegates to the International Socialist Congress at Vienna in 1913.

Rev. Father Bowdon, formerly editor of tho "Catholic Leader," at Kansas City, is another clergyman who investigated a bit and gained some new light. For years and years, he says, he "raved and tore" and "preached and wrote against that dreaded revolutionary and agitating party, the Socialists," Father Uowdcn continues: "I wrote and preached Socialism and common love; I wrote and preached Socialism and atheism; I wrote and preached Socialism and the destruction of the home. Finally, in order to more clearly and thoroughly show up the weakness of Socialism, I started to road Socialist literature. There 1 discovered my miserable mistake. There I found them dealing with tho causes of the conditions I was so anxious to change by silly reform. They tell mc I cannot be a Socialist and a Catholic at the same time. When did Jesus of Nazareth ever say. 'Thou shaft vote the Republican or the Democrat tic--ot[}UO v oq qou ppioa j puoquoa J lie unless I was a Socialist."

Archibald Crawford, editor "Voice of Labor," Johannesburg,' South Africa, who recently toured New Zealand, is again tilling the editorial chair, having completed his world's tour-