DESTRUCTIVE OF SOCIETY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 14

DESTRUCTIVE OF SOCIETY.

Sir, —A Levin landlord with a very pronounced bump of self-importance and a nice, polished way of saying foolish things asked Mr. Fowlds at his local meeting what tho Labor Party would do with such papers as Tttb Maortlaxp WoRKEit and men of tho Hickoy and Co. stamp, who wero "destructive of society." Mr. reply was somewhat evasive, but a minute or two earlier ho had made a rejoinder that was absolutely decisive on the point under discussion. Save and except, perhaps, the enquirer the listeners saw the point. Mr. Fowlds had stated that, during tta last 19 years. 22.500 land-

lords had taken from tho people of the Dominion 126 million pounds, to which sum tho landlords had no moral right whatever. This was certainly the greatest destructive and parasitical force in the nation. Thousands of workers have been in jail for stealing infinitesimally small sums. Can you see the irony and impudenco of it?— Yours, etc., H.L,