Milk and Meat

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 45, 19 January 1912, Page 4

Milk and Meat

■Iguorance begets credulity. Intelligence demands facts. • • . • Change conditions and you change (iiimuii nature. • • • . Tho wage* of igitoriuico is wagosjtavorv. • • * "Tho'Workor" is the mouthpiece of your class. Boom it. * * » * Good speakers aro made at tlio expense of their audumeo. * * * # Industrial Unionism is tho batloring ram wK'li which the workers will i'oroe the doors of capitalism. • • • Socialism would causo the honest sweat of labor to dampen tho brow of the capitalist class. The militant members of the work-ing-class of nil ages have been tho Saviours of the Human Race. • • • The High Stool Philosopher is a curs« to tho labor movement. Get out and do something. Tho N.Z.F.L. is moving tho workingclass of Now Zealand. Mako it a grander force by pushing its propagawta. • • • Capitalists iv their lifelong rides upon the bucks of the workers vory rarely strike a bufkjumper.

"Poor but honest" is an everyday term. Tho price ol honesty is poverty. One never hears the expression "Rich but honest."

The trouble with the worker is that ho U so busy working in his master's interests that he has no time to attend to his own affairs.

Tie best way for tho workers to lighten the burden of their class is to throw the-plutos from their backs. • " •

Thore is nothing between the earth and the stars that can stand before a united working-class.—Debs. • ■ • » Ho who seeks flic Truth should be of no country. —Voltaire.

To organise at the point of production is the surest guarantee against petty tyranny.

Capitalism depends for its very existence upon the ignorance ol' its wagealavea,.

Labor is that thing which produces all wealth and ought to be able to tako care of itsolf.

The workman who votes for Ward or Maesey votes, for his children to suffer the pangs of want.

Science is the real redeemer. It will l<ut honesty above hypocrisy; mental veracity above all belief. It will teach the religion of usefulness. It will destroy'bigotry in all its forms. It will put thoughtful doubt above thoughtless faith. It will give us philosophers, thinkers and savants, instead of priests, .theologians, and saints. It will abolish poverty and crime, and—greater, grander, nobler than all else—it will tnal«« the whole world free.—R. G. lugeisoH.

Thus the worker, as he works and creates wealth, forges the fetters of hia own bondage. Nothing in the process can be altered by pious wishes. AH criticisms of capitalism which do not go to the core are fruitless; all attempts to remove the "excrescences" of capitalism, while maintaining its basis, are Utopian.—AVm. Liebknecht.

There is in every productive energy something mysterious and sacred, which it behoves us to consider as above discussion and judgment.—Paul lbiirgot.