GERMAN CULT OF THE PIG.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 7

GERMAN CULT OF THE PIG.

The German “Vorwaerts,” indignant at the conduct of Agrarians and other parties concerned in maintaining the high price of pork, seeks a precedent for this scandalous state of affairs in Scripture story. In Exodus the Socialist newspaper finds its parallel in the worship of the golden calf by the Israelites. The “Vorwaerts” then enters into details of the tricks resorted to by every one through whose hands a pig goes before it reaches the consumer in the shape of pork. The bribes and tips, the commissions and percentages are lesion, and everp spark concerned justified himself with the remark, “If I can get it, why should I not take?” “The German nation,” indignantly declares “Vorwaerts,” “must not tolerate that producers and dealers continue this cult of the swine which exactly resembles the worship of the golden calf by the Israelites. The gold is being dragged from the pockets of the people, and the swine has been declared a god round whose altar we are dancing a degrading dance.”