“WOWSERISM.”

Taihape Daily Times, 26 January 1918, Page 7

“WOWSERISM.”

Apropos of the Sunday-observanes question now being discussed in our correspondence column, “Private Tom repper" writes under the above heading to the N.Z. Times: “A question. If Igo out to trim my utile liowcr garden on Sunday am I to understand, from the prosecution of a law-abiding Chinaman, that I am to be lined ? t thought the Sabbath .vas made for man, not man for the

Sabbath. Now, some time ago the Hon. A. L # Herdman said he wondered the people did not rise up in rebellion against our wowser tyrants. It is becoming intolerable. Freedom, sir, where is it? I expect to fight the Hun as soon as the 34th go. By the powers I am wondering if the entire 34ta before they sail, had not better play the cat and fiddle with our shrieking she-males, including the entire lot of narrow-minded policemen, magistrates, and local preachers—screechefs I mean—who think that coercion is conversion. Here you have it. Our pictures are dished up for us as if we are little children We are hardly allowed to whistle in the streets. The law dictates what we are to eat and drink, and so on. They will soon be regulating the number of times we are to kiss our wives. Where is it going to end? The other day a poulterer told a few of us that -he was afraid of putting a plucked fowl in the window on account of being fined for indecent exposure. Is New Zealand worth going away to fight for? You had better make a clean sweep of the old women who are running things by the time we come back. No drink after 6 p.m. too —the worst of all.”