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Otaki Mail, 17 July 1922, Page 4

££ALfSATaGN. In, v.onl in,tcci) ■ iiy a l '. J. iiyciei*. H<; ai.-ci a.-keli them whul section oi He pUOUC >..IS the ilUldCtt V. 011-CCI. iviv, min one acclamation, they ail* he oiu .iiiutii iiis in an aim t am. gciitieuien. loii never inane a my* | il l- mistake m your iiie, for it is l He j i cuv iu small farmer, ins wile ami j .'a,any. aho are carry my you all on l m u hacks to-day. The sootier you j vaiisc that tliat is the truth the betel* lor us ail. jiou* do you make out | !o is harder v. orkl-d than the labourer, mu* he is his own boss and cun do as lie likes while the labourers have to do they are told.’ Well, i will try ami explain to you. The small farmer, to ; make ends meet, has invariably to work iuna hours, for there is no from eight to live with him, it’s from early till jute. If he has leased land ami bought mud he has either rent to iiml or inter- : est to fray, uud more often than otherwise lie has a tenable job to scratch ap same. - Therefore there is no "go slow policy” for him, and the dishonest worker, trader, merchant-, etc., causes lii.ru to have a terrible time. He has i ! u . weather also to contend with, unci alien after growing* a crop has it spoiled Ihrough no lault of his own, If it was net for this class of land the wot id would nut be getting sul'Ueieat food to cat to-day. The sooner you labor leaders realise that the " eoekv” is the 'hardest worked man on earth the better it will be for the whole community. How. gentlemen, X am going to ask you to lend your men. Don't try to drive them, and above everything see that vou, its leader, set a good example, for example is better than precept and >!iou them by both action and deed licit V, e cannot, have better conditions until we have more honest and good principal people. Xow you call readily . iiuders: and that these were very bitter I -ill- f--i* these labour leaders to have | to swallow and they naturally looked : -i e: - another. One said. ‘‘Well, old ( uu you have hit us hard and given us j ... king 10 think about. But there | m. Imi what you have told us ■ i :; - i nub. and X. for one can see that ; i- :: vuu say. We have’and must i vi our worket*' to be more honest amt -0i1..1n forward, and by setting a good . .*. a rsr- -K* la future' tel! them the truth j Par vu-uid help to improve matters.” the chairman spoke and thanked u i :.;au for i ringing them togethe! j,,, slum ing* litem their folly and , i-i-idity, and said in future they woultl a,,- i on ail the assistance to carry out ; c.iu.-e that he had undertaken ,i liw-y possibly could. If you do. a i in, ~.it y *u will do nnue . ini ui one yea;* than you have done n tne pa--i Ji.lty. Wee that you tell your nvv tne truth, uud demonstrate so .i * , - hat a certain amount Of work is ; wiuijvd to give them good eullli, and that if they see and reul- ... ,'cu ,-i-i*i ai a that work is the meatus! U sing Christ brought to earth. Withal n wo cannot be either healthy or ■i . : ,:d .blow tin-ill tin- absurdity of vi.g* good workers and bud workers icthet. Cod did not make all men ike. iin ;uline they cannot till lie n> : o,i! a.s one auotlu'r. and while some ic, become cine lent at their oriv otUci's try to do its little as poslili. and this class is always looking v* assistance from their unions. The hole world is like a hive of bees, and - made up- of king.-, queens, drones, ud uoikeis Tin- priuciple drones are i.'ioiigst the bad workers and the other roue- are those that live by loaning .oner out to other people, thereby t,aiding them to live without work, in: a here there is one of this elas.are quite a number of loafer-, i.i.e hmer are the worst, tor they eiii.ei n.-e ihcii heads nor iheii 'hands il.e former does use hi.-, brains. Lc dro-ies ir a hide of bees are e-sea-.a:, civic the drones in the human ice not e.-sential, and only go to -. in .;iuk, tiie test id the comm unity ;v-u;„, ;-uc; -uud unhappy. Xovt. is •iking in paitieuhir that the uiad-.J* of this great union did.’ Yos. e tic menu- of bringing about a •i. !., .state of alVtiirs between town and the country people. You e. i.i you, day nitttiy tuwns-people le.igbv that tilt their country cousins •d to do was to sleep, eat. and drink idle the grass grew, ami the wool re*v on the sheep's backs. I’rav. what id the old man do to convince them iu; tHr ■ was not so Why he got'the m, matugj-aj'h to work and showed ■ a, rue; arcs that revealed the truth. ... took pictures of farmers doing all ms of lu'oourioii.s work hugely caused -.- ■die weather over which they had ■ eoniiui. For instance, he took pie---1--s of ae: * ,*■ of potatoes before they id been attacked by the blight, and -• viity-four hours afterwards lie took eg’nei pictures showing the crop ruini. Then he showed fruit rotting on v Trees, showing all the work there . - to be done to cope with blight and i diseases. He also showed them a -au.iifu! cow in full milk and one i'ii- farmer had just bought for *i.-y pounds, and the following morn- _ ar.nthei- picture showed the same *■ t.rar-iicalty ruined with mnmm’.tis. : !*-*; u;iftil cow was shown that *. niin.nl and hue to be -old for a ere "cong” t, the butch-.: through lortion. Thus it was by illustrating ese solid facts to the rowns-pcople at helped-.to bring about the lovely ufe of affairs that we have to-day. tight the town people the real uth and l--t them know that it was not eir .-i.-it.try cot:.-'i.s that had tin- cosy I . after all 1-ut tliat it was they emselvi «. Til's broke up their raise nressions that had lead them n«rrny i ag,-.- passed. Yes. that was good .or-, but i? there anything further at tills old man did that has borne od fruit? Oh yes, there is tons more, r instance our shops are not run as •v were in vour day. How's that?

Well, 1 told you thin the iul*» Vet to | 1 work to co-operate, and instead of liav- I : iag big showy shops (.ha: had had heavy ' j rents attach* (.1 to tiiciii in which ro sell 1 their goods, they Hail a special room at ' tlie factories, and you simply asked for , the class of goods you required and \ ' they wore supplied to you without any | j show. . This cut down overhtiaa charges i ■ and enabled the goods to be sold for a j song in comparison with' what they : were sold for in your day. To what class of goods did thuf, apply ? To prac- j tie ally everything. Why. one can now buy for a shilling that which at one | time cost a pound and they are still ( coming lower. Now we have l hous-J anils of men and* women who give their whole time to the good of the great tin- i ion. Oh. but they must get money to ! live and. be aide to pay their way. Oh what 1 * bosh. ’ * Take a \ oluatury doe- s tor. He is fed'anti clothed gratis, and : the time lie has he is tu be envied, not i pitied, for the people know how lucky i they are to have such a man amongst them, and they now know he won’t' make two trips where one will do. He sees that his people know all about first aid and he al-;o sees that they get all i the secrets that used to be held by the 1 medical profession to enable them to i make heaps of money.. In fact I was ! talking to one medical man the other day and he told me on no account would * he now like to practice for money only. (To be Continued).