THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 79, 13 September 1912, Page 4

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

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The master-class of thia country, when they sit down and pass resolutions in favor of compulsory. fejHojfi little dream they ai*e manufacturing rods for their own backs, fjre. Socialists have been for years -propagating their ideas, but could, not get the children to tata any interest in -such a. dry old subject a,s eowopws- $» ■$«■* fence Act has changed all that, and to-day the boy is seriously studying the reasons why he is called upon to sacrifice the best -part of his $&,& time to the learning of *|hi§ supposed scientific art of A* $-W£J#% *© found a Passive Registers*. tJnkn. At Runanga we found. § %kx\°M ■ponapany of this unien, with their. Red flag and tho enthusiasm of yeuth, holding forth on the soap-box and organising' meetings. This "Vag."* thought thj? surely is the zenith, and we shall not $nd finy more of on the Coast. But I received a call to go to Millerton for a meeting. I went and we held a splendid meeting, and when the hall was full and we thought it wouldn't hold any more, in marohed the Passive Resistors vith the same old Red, .fty; MW *P d if genera! Gedley ha<jL been h.e would have grew with envy to think he could not command the cervices and loyalty of these boys, with all the bribery of gold lace "and uniforms. But the finest" point, of the. is the boys are not "blind leaders of the blind;" the* are not. resisting tfei§ Qonscript ion Act for the pure love of lawbreaking. They have asked themselves why,' if this country is in daHger-, tlie grown man should be so cowardly as to shelter himself behind the growing youths of the country. And iu> asking themselves this question, they have stumbled right UP- asain.it U»! game called capitalism. They are now study. mg;«00W»iC8, and woe betide, the exploite*? ia tf w k ai - the Conscription Act is doing. It has taken away the sting ef the jaiWn fact, the bey is now s.esj-u§ \os% &*> wea-ring with pri«te : the medals that are being presentyd %? £•%& to J ail - a _ nd now the boy, and more dangerous still, the mother! are studying Socialism and realising it is tho only way out from thia miserable b^nes*.