"TROTHS" PILLORY.

NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 4

"TROTHS" PILLORY.

A SCURVY SKUNK. Some individual mortally scared tp death to put his name at the bottom of his cowardly screed has had the following to say m an insignificant pence-pinching paper at Christchurch :— "The police prosecution of the ''Lone Hand' for publishing a study of the nude has failed," as every ordinary person would .have expected. The public will be inclined to wonder why a reputable maganne should be attacked while a Wellington journal that treats it's readers, to weekly doses of • the most objectionable matter is left alone. Johannesburg has somewhat of a reputation .'in connection with publications of the purple variety but, according to one recent arrival m 'New Zealand, it could learn something from the Dominion. 'I have seen a good deal of lrictfilv-flavored newspaper matter m 'South Africa,' he said, m mentioning the sublet, 'but I never saw anything worse -.than rome of the stuff "I have seen m one of .our, papers. Why doiiS your' Government, which suppresses Tattersall's and naughty post cards, lolerate^irh f'i«graceful print .? ' " Thd* , c.f .con i;se, is the Wellington journal singled Out for this vile attack, ond if-, is only natural that this journal should hit, back, if ; the thing resionsi^le dar^l show its head. Perhaps the nu'li^ are really wohderinc: why' .'Truth' 1 ' has been left alone so lon^ md no doubt if J. J. North and his mon>v mob had their wav tlus paper woul I be prosecuted out of its very sex. Now, "Truth" would- doailv- Jove. 1o know who the slimy rr^li!« is .who has not the courage of ■ Ms'--convic-tions, to sign his- itnme to his sa^a-^e screed and make Ih»»rs wore cva 1 - Doubtless, hp has ffl f "Truth's" -l«jth himself and daren't jisV *noin<»r. This naper keons wii'pin the" limits? of the Law and knows wiu»n +o 6vr>--sten ■ t-he bounds, and the Hro^n is not likely to he snarinp- m thn u c " of its rod. 'Anyhow, the Peo'-ls's Paner doesn't mind the ruUlr-^Rh JiVe. snuirts of thpspV ; ?nrnyri-"vs pkunks. hut oh. what a" different t 1* it would, he ' if 'a. name -was at the bottom of the said smm-t. THE BOY'S OVERTIME. For a Premier. Joe ignorance is colossal, .and his Recent .remarks at Auckland ancnt the overtime of telegraph messenger boys,deserve to be thoroughly, dissected. The boys, it seems, have been sweated and not. paid overtime, and .a system was adopted on the part of some ape to give the lads time .off instead of receiving overtime, and the. Premier didn't know of »it.. Now, this system is contrary to all instructions, and m future all the boys are to be paid overtime, and if one reads between the lines there is a great future, m store for the messenger boy, who might jn the long run become a Prime Minister. Anyhow, he will get .paid overtime, and everything m the garden will be lovely for him, providing he gets amove on and doesn't loaf too much. This is very pleasant, Qf course, but whenever. "Truth" hears the query, "What will, we do with our hoys ?" its only ddvice' is not to make telegraph messengers of them. Down at Christchurch a 'nice state of affairs exists. The boys t.lier© have been sweated and have' not been paid overtime, and it further looks as if they are to be; diddled out -of it. That's bad enough. The lads there when having lunch are obliged to go out into a yard or something which is assailed by pungent odors from closets and latrines, and if th>s is the proper sort of thing for boys to put up with, good luck to' the Service; These few 'remarks • will no doubt have their proper ■ effect. -but the boss' at Christchnrch wants, n shake hadlv, and if he was at all intw*«?ted m the lads' welfare he woulfl have long^ ago seen to it that such a flisasreeable state of affairs as' thi* had been remedied. It looks, anyhow. as if. the Government ate the worst sweaters m the land. Joe Ward's ignorance on such matters -is sublime. SINISTER SHCRFCY. What is there about Henry -Strat- , ton Izard, solicitor and ihie£, who robbed widows and orphans io ! hc extent of £25,000 m Ihe Wairaraoa-, that he should be treated with deference when he is hailed before -> ('o'nt of Justice. The" Wairarapa bankruptcy proceedings were held m camera, and every effort was made to hush up the stupendous thief. Irard.'^.-ho was given away by a diiscardid vko-- < man. had peculiar-, relations with bis youthful ward, ' 'M^ariha' : ' Mahupuka, and while he 'wras tried m Masterton S.MV rCourt; an injunction, or something was sought for the removal ot! Mart ha from the house of Izard on the score that he was exeroisine undue influence over her. Rut the whole thing was done m a frightened manner and with- bated breath for fear Izard's • 1000-ton relatives might he o^nded. Eyery possible effort was made to keep the proceedings out of the press, whereas if Tzard had been an ordinary sort of burglar his exploits would have been blazoned forth to the world. This week a case was heard m Wellington Supreme ' Court to determine whether Arthur Feist, a. Carterton baker, or a person named Judd, should bear the loss of £70|0 • stolen by Izard, and that reviled convict appealed to give evidence. However, for fear his sensibilities might be shocked by the publicity. Izard was not dragged into the open Court, but was examined m a private room, and Bell, K.C., was offended beyond measure when the press representatives forced their way m. / .