Milk and Meat

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 2

Milk and Meat

Tho best time fo agitato is now. * * . When agitating, agitato for the only thing worth while—-Socialism. _■ _. Screaming 'Syndicalism I" will not put an end to industrial organisation. * * * l-neasy lies the bond of the muderii . politician, - . « . An intelligent workman is a thing feared by plutocracy. : _ The agitator who keeps on agitating is the one who does thiix's. * * ? ■. i -Empty stomachs are the result of empty heads. ■■ * * # The 'small farmer' is very often afflicted with a big head. * * » Politics does not necessarily mean crawling for votes. * _ _. Wo should always remember that everyone who seeks office is not consequently a fakir. * * » Pulpit oratory or sacred music will do very littlo towards working-class emancipation. * * People who want something now can-: not bo expected to remain silent till their harp and halo is handed them. * * * The automobile maker is a different person altogetluer to tho automobile rider, '* * * The oloalc of capitalism at present covers every institution that can be used to hold tho workors in subjection. I * * » The average citizen can wax very eloquent of intolerance abroad. There are always extenuating circumstances at homo. * „ * Money-changers were once chased out of tho Temple; now change is being chased in the temple. The surest criterion of the correctness of the working-class attitude is tho caterwauling of the capitalist press. * * * If it- were as easy to shock the public heart as it is to shock its stomach, progress would bo much more rapid. * * * The revolutionary workers are sifting nil ideas to east aside the chaff from the wheat. We accept what benefits us from the Socialist propaganda, we accept that- portion of anarchist action that is of value., and we retain that which experience proves to bo an aid in the class struggle.—"lndustrial Worker." * - - 'Work on," say the capitalists to the workers. ''We arc your benefactors. Be content, and heaven will bo your reward when you die. The note'sof this siren song aro as soothing as tho scratching of a -nan's back will) a hot rake."—Mcnton. » » » Mankind has reached a point wherei tho means of satisfying its needs are in excess of the needs themselves. To impose, therefore, as ban hitherto been done, the curse of misery and degradation upon vast divisions of mankind in order to secure well-being for the few, is needed no more ; wellbeing can bo secured for all, without overwork for any.—Kropotkiu. "Yes, that's liow he treated mc, and I've been 39 years in the colonies, and never a man oould say to mc, 'Jack, you owe mc sixpence.' But, by the Lord, the first time I g«>t a few beers in mc, I'll talk to him."