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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 77, 30 August 1912, Page 5

I In Our Opinion j I f»TH week. And still we're smiling. '•mflE MAORILAND WORKER" *is at the boom at last. Keep it it the top. - » ■ \ IIpHE essential little detail of why '. Parry ruled that motion out of order was not mentioned by the howling newspaper Dervishes. Turn to tho Waihi budget and find it, i - • — nPHE concluding paragraph of Reef- , * ton Reflections is at once the kragedy and comedy of the present prisis, with a taint of cynicism in the jneaaurement. ; ♦ fPHEY'D have scabs at Waihi if they 'Vr could get them. Rhodes virtually tells the world so. If the engine-driv-ers aren't what it is said they are will , -_hey please declare who'll they be with -' in the eventuality? « |f\LD proverb: "Muzzle not the os that treadeth out the corn." Mod_r_ version (after military training): Every worker "disciplined," every mind muzzled is another point to the exploiter. 9 TyANTED KNOWN.—Oath-faking a - specialty. Special terms for flunkeys and others amenable to discipline. Persons with reasoning faculty reed not apply. No credentials necessary.—lnternational Murder Bureau, Wellington. 4 ,_ XTATURALLY, Dr. Gibb on Paid Agitators and Labor Bosses met with the affluent approval of the viperish •"Dominion." After all, it's another case of the pot calling the kettle black. In the diagnosis we're all in the same boat. Houp-lal » /YN his deathbed a man who loved, ' lived and died for his fellows said -. u l never oould believe that Providence bad sent a few men into the world -ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to lie ridden." We never could believe it .ither. Do you believe it, reader? o "rpHINGS are not what they seem," said the poet. Neither are things what they are called. For instance, some men consider it a libel to be called Socialists, while others again glory in the name. This preamble may not be out of place in quoting the Federal Attorney-General's definition of syndicalism, a word much in vogue now, and so far not quite understood by the people. "What is syndicalism? It is the working-man'- idea of profit-shar-ing. He says, 'We will take an industry, Work it, and share the profits, eliminating the capitalists.'" ■♦ 1-ERHAPS no movement has suffered more vilification and abuse at the ""Tgraph writers, biased ministers of reli- ■ gion, and would-be politicians than the Socialist movement. Socialists pity from the bottom of their hearts the poor unfortunate Christian ministers of to-day who try to harmonise presentday orthodox Churohianity with Chris- > tianity. Apropos, L. R. Wilson had a good letter in a recent "Lyttelton Times" in refutation of some statements made in an interesting address on Socialism and Christianity by tho Rev. T. A. Williams, of Christchurch. The reverend gentleman having quoted a remark of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, of New Theology fame, to the detriment of Socialism, Mr. Wilson supplied this quotation from the same source: "The churcheß are ono thing, the Socialist movement is another* and, despite individual instances of clerical Socialism, official Christianity is not only quite distinct from Socialism, the two are antagonistic." Further, "There is. good reason for the antagonism, and the reason is that the churches havo been captured to a large extent by the •forces which Socialism seeks to destroy. . . . We are thus confronted with a most curious and anomalous situation. The Socialism which is / developing so generally in antagonism to conventional Christianity is far nearer to the original Christianity than the Christianity of tho churches." _* a doddering, humorless oid thing is the Wellington "Evening Post." Wooden is not the word to apply to this "Post." it's petrified. A .sense of humor is tho saving salt of life. It is. the redeeming feature t_at . jnakes even some capitalistic papers 4iofc wholly distasteful and) unpalatable to the intelligent worker. But the •"Post" has nob the slightest sense of humor in its make-up. One would need a Na_myth hammer to knock the point of a joke into its thick and adamantine skull. It's a pa}>er that scarifies its op- ,- ponents most vituporatively. Tho Federation of Labor has been its target ipr abuse and misrepresentation for ptonth-. Yet bec-nso -Oiiie Federation speakers at those Opera House meetings during the c6n_fvjej-.ee poked a lit. .1. harmless "borak" at tjj. press, interlarded, or course, with ■seme severe 6-ric.ur-e, the "Post" vowed to be revenged by not reporting any further Federation speech... Lately i., lias fallen foul of Minister of Marine' Fisher. It has bee*. hvttt again -fn tho tenderest spot of its most vulnerable region—the region whore is situate its feelings of traiiso-nde-nt superiority to the common CTOW- of papers and people ifmd its serene unconsciousness that i_ ever prints anything that is in the slightest degree lacking in good taste, anything that is not couched in the most chaste and courteous of language, anything that would bo an -/fence to the most delicately and carefully nurtured in _h_ re„lien.chis of speech. Tho "fW"* -.trst s_r.ly laboi- under this d-1-flton of exalted impeccability. As regards Fisher, it is now «fa ml big on itß "dig.." ami the tint has rv.i.'.o forth : | "__••. Fisher's c-YiTro'versia. manners have not improved sine. hi. promotion, and WO Cannot "liiiclertaTcb Hi nceepb in future, even from a Minister of tho Crown, l*t_r*T_ whMi tto iioi efimplv | kith tho ordinary riiles of courtesy." ! Jlisher is still dazed from tho shuck. ,