Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 88, 22 November 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

fhat with some men it's a long time between thinks.

thai in 18C0 there were but two millionaires in the tJnited States arid no tramps.

That to-day there are 35,000 millionaires and 3,000,000 tramps, and the country is seething with industrial Unrest.

That millionaires don't make a rich nation.

fhat the more there are of them the greater is tho general poverty. That the late General Booth once said : "We have converted every kind of professional man but the journalist." That whether this is because the journalist is past redemption or because he doesn't stand in need of it, we aro left to surmise.

Kiat maybe he expects to get to heaven on his press ticket. That Socialism means securing to every man the results of his own industry. That the only people who can consistently object to that are tiiose who believe in securing the results of other people's industry.

That "men are but! children of a larger erowth." \

That without education in work inn;----«las8 ideas and ideals they remain children till they die, bluffed throughout life by a parasitic capitalism. That the workers should not "stop to think," but keep moving right along while they do their thinking. Ihai> the insectibane of Socialism wili deatroy the bugs of industry—the parasites who live on rent, interest, profits and unnecessary work. That th© greatest home destroyers are the landlord, unemployment' and the mortgage. That an authority on waspology says only the female of the species is known to stina. That there doesn't appear to be any difference- in this respect from the female of another species with which man is intimately acquainted. \ Jbat the desire of every man to be - '•'■ Afifo*<3»ni boss is a natural one. , fhftt that ia why th* private employer 'i ■ffihftfe WfounrtAjaaph in pjffirt urodnottaM' - man. will be his ; That the "Public" says that "The citizen who is not at this time enough interested in Socialism to learn what it is and what it is doing ii a civic blight." "iat the greatest war the world has j ever seen is between Capital and Labor —for it is a war of centuries, it is a 'war of five continents, it is a war hemispheric. That tram conductors are usually fareminded men. That a remarkable thing about Fat is I that he liv<« largely on the lien. That on June 30 the old-age pensioners in Australia numbered close upon 80,000. That as the total population of the Commonwealth is under five millions j these figures are strikingly arrestive. That they indicate the magnificent prospects which confront individuals xmder a so-called individualistic system which permits the majority to produce the wealth of a country and a few to grab it. That there is only one short cut to Socialism —that is, to cut short the flow of profits into the hands of the non-producers. That) when the Israelites despoiled their masters ere departing from Egypt they provided posterity with an inspiring example of confiscation. That Irishmen in the United States iiave sent £71,975 for use in the Home Rule campaign during the past 11 years. That the convention of the American Irish League, sitting in Philadelphia recently, pledged itself to raise £2Q,----000 more as the final contribution. That the "Westralian Worker," in chrpnicling the visit to Victoria of E. R. Hartley, says that "a feature of

Hartley's work is his weekly budget of organising notes, which are always eminently readable." That Socialism stands for construction ; that's why it abhors international wars, which signify destruction. That the fundamental doctrine of Socialism is brotherhood, whereas the basis of capitalism is every man for himself—the doctrine of greed and selfishness.

That the gospel of Socialism is the most hopeful ever preached. That when people are happy they will avoid the wrong, which brings unbap-

pme33. That under capitalism J he spoilers have carriages and the toilers ambulances. That no man can become rich by his own efforts. That this is the outstanding fact about capitalism which shows what a gigantic robbery it is. That there is nothing new under the sun.

That a Chicago doctor asserts that appendicitis, which we considered a new disease a few years ago, is described by Egyptian physicians in a papyrus 7000 years old. "Ben Adhem," in the "Petone Chronicle," suggests knocking "L" out of the United Labor Party constitution and say it was all tJ.P. That a Sydney "Worker" writer, in satirical mood, says: "There are so many opening ceremonies in these times that it wouldn't be surprising to find some public person making a speech over the opening of a tin of sardines."

That private persons often make speeches over the opening of tins of sardines and such like, but the remarks on these occasions are generally totally "unfit for publication."