THE SQUARE DEAL

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 90, 6 December 1912, Page 8

THE SQUARE DEAL

Which I wish to remark, And my meaning is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The Conservative Crowd is peculiar. Which the same I would rise to explain. William Massey, his name, Of the promised square deal; And Herdman, the same, With police at his heel. And he marched them all up to Waihi, Which he'll find very hard'to explain. And one hid from the crowd, And he guzzled champagne, And lie talked very loud That the law he'd maintain, In the teeth of the miners of Waihi. (Who were absent, I haste to explain.) But he fled in a car, Which, was frightful to see; And he looked on the war, Did this William Massey, From a distance, of fifty-five miles. (Which was safer than nearer Waihi.) And the Herdman police Clubbed our men on the head; Nor the carnage did cease Till a miner lay dead. And the gay little town of Waihi Is a city of terror and dread. For they jailed sixty-three, Whom they thought might go wrong, And they peopled Waihi With a law-loving throng Of half-breeds and scabs and police. (Which I think you'll admit that it's strong.) And they raided our hall, Our poor treasures laid bare; And our homes and our all Did they violate there; And they drove us afar, and they said "All is well! There is peace everywhere." And the deal we have got! And the deal is four-square I 'Tis a cemetery lot, And our comrade lies there! Now raise we a stone o'er his head, And we carve on it there : "By the Cod that made mc Do I swear on the gun, That the name of Waihi Will I teaoh to «ny son. And the miner shall come to his own In the day that Cod's will shall be donel" Y-HE.