CONTENTMENT IN DUNEDIN. By THE VAG.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 March 1912, Page 7

CONTENTMENT IN DUNEDIN. By THE VAG.

Jkniedin is :i glorious city, i>ml when t'lio mil is shining anil one is Mire of where- tho next meal is comins: from, ikih! .fuels glad to Ijo alivo and able to climb luT many iiills. It l>ll to my lot to bo able to pay a visit to tJiat city the other week, and 1 wandered around trying to find tilings out. 1 found tho people in a beastly st.atn of contentment. Tho unions and all Lalwr organisations scorn to think iJwit everything is w< , U. Tlic Socialist Party lias Mime of tho finest spoolers in tlio Dominion; in fact, it hap, in my cst.imation, more speakers to the square inch than any other town in 'God's own/ , and yet with all this talent the organisation -down there is in a lackadaisical state. Tho party holds no regular indoor liifoliiijiSj liufc holds lvgular outdoor meetings every week. I li.slonod to its speakers to find out tho reason of the contentment, and I seemed to •understand the position after one of tlio speakers had given a good address. This comrade is a fluent speaker with a good voice, bub hi) told his audience that certain economic forces were at work that would inevitably overthrow capitalism and bring about Socialism. Ho did not state how long it would take capitalism to commit suiiido, and whilst I admit that this is possible and probable, yet there ficenis too much of "fatalism" aVoub it for mo, and I think such a theory is likely to <Io moro harm than goo<f to the cause, "We are all too prone to accept the idea that Avhat is t-o be will be, and i.o let it slide at that, and to tell tlio workers it will come whether or n«t seems to mc to bo highly dangerous, and cnli'nliit*d !o take tlio fight out of those who (,\i-J\t to be fighting. Btill tl'.ero rue .eood battlers down there, and we can safely sny t,he 1?m1 iwa.!' will lic-ver bo haulc-d down whilst Uiey remain in Thinedin. We held two meetings, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday evening. T.hero was a good attendance, and wo %<>b a pood only enc qncstion bcinp; asked,