WAKE UP!

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

WAKE UP!

By the way, do you deposit much money in the bank? Do you' often visit socially at the banker's home? Did you ever see a cheap. 10-dolbir-a----inonth soldier courting the banker's or tho big manufacturer's daughter: Well, hardly. Wake up, my working-class brother. These leading citizens strut before you and fill you full of fierce and splendid talk about becoming ''brave bo>s behind the gun;" but at the same time they despiso you socially. Don't foolishly get behind the gun or in front of the gun—not, at least, till you have studied the gmi.

Under no circumstances should the delicate flesh of a big business man be exposed to well-aimed bullets firedfrom a modern rifle. His fiVsh j s , 0 f course, specially sensitive and pronoun. Moreover, it is wholly unnecessary, because he can buy the flesh of a' common working-class man for bulletstopper purposes very, very cheap, as a substitute. That is a much better arrangement, the big business man thinks, and, of course, the Workingmen agree with tho business men on this matter, just as they do on nearly everything else.