A SCOT IN NEW ZEALAND.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 61, 10 May 1912, Page 14

A SCOT IN NEW ZEALAND.

Sir, —I am very much struck with "Tho Worker." It is undoubtedly tho best paper I have come across, and I wish you every success. I have seen a lot of suffering in tho ranks of the workers in the Old Land, and unless you are successful, the samo state of affairs will arrive in timo in this country. Wo already have our slums and orphanages filled to over-* flowing, and when the Hon. Myers gets a free hand to turn Gulling guns on the producers when they ask for a little bigger bite, then all the horrors of the poverty of older lands will be with us hero. I havo been in this country about six years, and even now ennnot erase from my memory the impressions of my boyhood, when I used to look on tho lonely, deserted straths (valleys) in the North of Scotland, from which tho people had been turned adrift (by the ruling classes'! to make room for deer forests. When I think of those days I cannot help wishing the Socialists, and especially tho revolutionary kind, every success. My wish and advice to you is to go on, on. on, and agitate. Ask*-and demand tlie utmost. Tf you ask for half a loaf you won't be listened to, hut ask for the lot. and people will begin to wonder why you should ; then perhaps when they learn that the world's wealth belongs to the world's workers, they may be a little less antagonistic to Socialism than they aro to-day. Your hand is to the plough. Let there be no looking back, so that when you come to your journey's end your faithful leader and Socialist up above will bo able to say, "Well done, my good and faithful servant, enter thou into the efforts of tho Lord."—Yours, etc., Invercargill. ADMIRER.