Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1895. "THE RED COW GROUP."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5068, 4 July 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1895. "THE RED COW GROUP."

«, Uxiikk the above heading, "Arthur Morrison," a prominent iiutlior of the present day, skutohes in his " Tales of Mean Streets," a political typo named Sotclmr, who might almost he discovered in this .Uritain of the South. Hotelier and these working men whom he was wont to address, were the salt of the earth, bullied, plundered, and abused." Wy are we pore \" Soldier would say, " 1 ask you straight, wy arewe pore ? Wy is it, my friends, that awlten and awften you lind yer ain't got a penny in yen poeket, not for to git a crust o' bread, or 'alf a pint o' reasonable refreshment. 'Ow is it that 'appens? Again, I ask 'ow? J'll tell yer, mo friends, its 'cos of the rotten slate o' sieiely. Wy d'you allow the lazy, idle, dirty, do-nothing uppcrclasses, as they rail themselves, to reap all the benefits of your (oil, wile you starve an' starve, to keep 'em in lukshry, an' starve yerselvcs ? Wy don't you go and take your shares o' the wealth lyin' round you ?" For the biography of Soldier, and the uiifortnnale scipiel to bis career, we must refer our readers to the book itself, which is available at a certain library in Masterlon, but the teaching of Soldier is not unlike the teaching of our Liberal rulers and masters. We have often wondered whence our Liberal policy came, and in whose brain it originated. After reading Arthur Morrison's "Talcs of Mean Streets," we have come to the conclusion that it came to us from " the lied Cow Group," and that Soldier was its author,