Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 82, 4 October 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

flPhat it cannot be emphasised too strongly /that there are only two classes-'-the producers and Xhq parasite^.

JPhqt tetany of the parasites, the unempftfqcl,' for instance, wotild become producers if industry wer? socially organised.

yhat the Socialist is tho wprld'3 schoolniaster.

JThat he is teaching the world how to liire-HMtier capitalism people merely

That organised. l*bor is a, menace, not to industry, but to the control of iudvitry by erguniwd «»pHalJfjbat a blessed trinity of love and be the rewa-d of the workers when Labor comes into itf ioWμ.

That the workers do everything, but get , only enough to enable them to eputinve working.

That the capitalists do nothing and get nearly everything,

Hhafc the ris# of the joint stock α-p----pany is reipenMble for the mewling number of id}§ rich whp Jive on djridends.

flhiit tbo cry that "Socialism is impoß» Bible*' is arrant r^t.

That many miraeJss of science and inVfirfripfl wf> nowadays as. a mat4#r et eours* w#re declared to be "impossible."

That "It can't be done" was said of it was done. That, f§F jns|apee, it was said of aerial navigation, ten years ago. $iat Joe Lesina, estrQuieetLjland ILabpr M.P., is *p revive ft sajary of ;g7GO a year and travelling expenses as organiser for ibs ligwr interests in New Zealand.

That a Bananaland paper comments that it was really time Lesina got out of the Labor movement, as he was long ago fishing for this job or something similar. That JBnng and IJoodle synonymous terms. fhat if it were not for the German SoIPariy \Europ? wouid bees up to her neck in war months ago. Jfiat; ?4%fltßQ 1C- Jereme, author t£ l\ f rr "' a,flo»t," ha-.:. joinr»< Tliat ?»S#t #f thg Ifa-ding wrlferß and thinkers of the day are Socialists. That America has favored Australia with a visit from the world's champion skater.

s"hat owin? to Presidential engagements, the •world's champion skiter is not available.

That moving pictures are performing one great service.

That they are showing the poor how the licli wallow in luxury. That it is no wonder there is industrial unrest with the evidences constantly before the toilers of the wasteful, wanton excesses of the parasitic plutocracy.

That tlieJ "Lyttelton Times" scissors editorial emanations from its con:temporaries and prints them under the heading of "Public Opinion."

That the daily press so consistently dis-•t.-*E y nn& misrepresents every view ojwjosfld to its pwn capitalistic interests that it is sheer tomfoolishness to ilabel its statements "public opinion." That both in moulding and expressing public opinion the daily press is fast ' jpeing wliat influence it once possess? cd. That while it had aforetime some claim to be called "the Archimedean lever that moved the world," it is now chiefly a clog on the wheels of progress. That, fres.9 AsflAciaiion bias was strikinp.lv—and n °t unfunnily—illustrated in the wired reports of the recent enthusiastic mass, mpe-tings in Auckland. That of the <?rewd at the jail gates on t,he evening qf September 21 we were informed that "the large majority of thp two thousand people consisted of spectators." That it would have puzzled Solomon with aj,l his wiadom to have applied any other word to them.

That of course they were spectators — . what els© conld they have been, unless they -were all blind? That of thefollowing afternoon's crowd of 12,000 we were also informed that tlwy -weie eierely spectators, only this time they were "curious." That they weren't half as "curious" as the Press Association report of the demonstration," which was more thun fi curiosity—it was a freak. That in a labored effort to minimise the enthusiasm and the unanimity of the meeting with regard to the resolution