FIVE AND FIFTY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 51, 1 March 1912, Page 1

FIVE AND FIFTY.

If fifty men did all the work And gave the price to five, And let those five make all the rules, You'd say tha fifty men were foolsUnfit to be alive. And if you heard complaining cries Fitm fifty brawny men, Blaming the five for graft and greed, Injustice, cruelty, indeed— What would you call them then? Not by their own superior force Do five on fifty live, But by election and assent And privilege of governmentPowers that the fifty give. If fifty men ere really fools, And five have all the brains, The five must rule us now, we find, But if the fifty have the mindWhy don't they take the reins?—C P. Oilman.