"UNITY" AND ITS DISCIPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 5 August 1913, Page 7

"UNITY" AND ITS DISCIPLES.

(To the Editor.) Sγ,—Oscar Mcßrine disclaims all knowledge of Cain or his doings, but in this innocence or ignorance he seems to stand a little apart from his fellows, for ■ one hears quite freqnently round the soa.p-box, lurid language in regard to th* ' unfortunate capitalist, and about the urgent necessity for "raising Cain," etc. 1 In regard to Tom Bloodworth. the other high priest of "Unity," if erer a ' man was stricken with his own bludgeon ' he must be the one. for what a splendid case he makes out—quite innocently, of , course—against Socialism. In proof of this, let its take one example from those ho has mentioned: "Who work? hardest, the fanner who tills his own lnnd, or the hired servant?" et<\ Certainly anyone ontside of infants and lunatics knows that in most cases » man will work Itarder and longer when the land is his own. That is just the point that the opponents of Socialism h.ivp always been contending for. and 10. Tom Bloodwortu now comes n'ong with it fresh from the Socialist mini! Hitherto thf socialistic dogma has been that the State was to collar everything—peculiarly so in the case of land —and as for the individual rights of the poor unit— well, they werr> to be merged in. the State. It sounds almost too good to be true, this latest news from Tom Bloodworth, but if you have correctly reported him, and if it is really genuine, it will bring intense relief to Mr. Maesey and all his friends of the freehold, as well as to others likr your humble correspondent. COMMON SENSE.