Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 86, 1 November 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

That many people are against what they think Socialism is, while they are in favor of what Socialism, really stands for.

That some people who are sticklers for keeping holy the Sabbath day are equally anxious to keep wholly everything else they can lay their hands

That the capitalists are perfectly willing to obey the command, "Thou shalt not steal," as long as their politicians make the laws defining what theft is. That' it was the greed for gold that sold the gentle Christ and then cast kts for His garments. That an American reason why some people succeed is because others are "suckers."

That if you look back over history you will see that things have not always been the same. That epoch has succeeded epoch; society has constantly changed. That the future will not be like the present, though there are some who hold fast to the notion that it is now as it was in the beginning and ever shall be, world without end. Amen! That capitalism will assuredly pass away, to be succeeded by the Socialist system of collective ownership and control for the collective good. That the "W«st Coast Times," in chronicling the attempted assassina-

tion of Roosevelt, stated in two places that the wound was "pronounced fatal." That it then immediately proceeded to remark that "Mr. Roosevelt declares that too much fuss is being made over a trifling matter." That justice is sacred; law is a juggle, That the doctors of England are on strike against the Insurance Bill. That one of these days, when this professional corporation is looked into, the people will make the Sawbones trade a national monopoly. That it is the aristocratic doctor element that deplores strikes among the '"common people." That in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere the first Great Communist lovingly addressed himself to the ''sowers," "reapers," "harvesters," "vinedressers," and "builders." That he never addressed himself to the money-changers or Mammon-worship-pers, save in scathing terms of denunciation. That after a strike which lasted five years the Leather Workers' TJnion of Washington, XJ.S.A., won preference to unionists and increased wages. That the Holy Land has recently been invaded by Socialism. That a Socialist paper called "Haachduth," meaning solidarity, has been started in Jerusalem. That Carson, who is doing the warwhooping Red Indian picture show act in the North of Ireland, is suf-

fering from what an English statesman called "Ulsteria."

That it is interesting to remember that this Carson was originally a strong Liberal and Home Ruler. That after Salisbury came into power he turned dog, as many of our "good" young lawyers do —for briefs.

That W. J. Chidley, the "Simple Life" apostle of Sydney, has been released from the insane asylum on certain "undertakings" being given.

That this is an estraodinary position, to say the least.

That either Chidley is mad or he is not.

That if he is off his dipper no "undertakings" could make him sane.

That if he is not. mad, he should not have been confined in a madhouse; and once confined wrongly, no "undertakings" should have been demanded of Him on his release.

That some misguided though doubtless well-meaning people recently took Chidley to speud an evening in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly.

That this was rather rough on him, coming so soon after being released from a similar institution.

That nest January will see the departure for England from Australasian waters of the flagship Drake. That it will be missed by many little ducks.

That in one day in the New York Wheat Pit 6000 bushels of wheat were sold for actual use and forty-four million imaginary bushels of wheat were sold

for future delivery in gambling trans-

actions. That Principal W. P. Adeney, in his presidential address to the Congregational Assembly at Manchester, England, said that "posterity would be amazed at the callous complacency of

the attitude of modern Christians to-

wards penury and squalid misery."

That "amazed" is not the word —posterity will be horror-stricken.

That rumor has it that the butchers at the several meat works throughout the Dominion intend asking for a higher rate of pay as soon as the slaughtermen's agreement expires in February next.

That Dr. McArthur, the Petone stipendiary magistrate, truthfully referred to himself as "an old fogey" in one of his usual homilies to some territorials up before him the other day. That he might have added "fossil" to his self-judgment while he was about it.

That in their efforts for the physical betterment of the human race eugenists will have to walk warily. That, with our lack of knowledge of the influence of heredity, it is sheer folly to lay down any hard and , fast laws for the improvement of the race. That no one may dogmatically say what ia the best way, outside of environment, of elevating mankind. That very often the greatest mind is in the frailest body. That what the world owes to invalids would provide material for one of the most remarkable treatises ever written.