PITHY PARS.

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1925, Page 7

PITHY PARS.

“He who has no house has no word in the community. ” —. African saying. —o — —o — Men’s hearts ought not to bo set against one another, but set with one YUriothier and/ agaiinst the evil; thingonly.—Carlyle. — o — —o—- — for the drones of the social hive (hat there arc. hoes of an industrial turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the nonoy, to undertake the labour of its fabrication.—Hood. —o— —o— Tn spite of character, capacity and loyal service, the workers are often the victims of a. system of class rule which overworks and underpays them at one period, and then throws them on the industrial scrap-heap if greed and selfish interest so dictates. ■ —A. TTendorson, British Labour M.P. — o * — —o—- — discover to the world something $ which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his follow creatures. —John Stanrt Mill. —o — —o — Tt is the profiteers, not the prophets, who have honour in the country (England). —James Douglas. —6— —o— Wo have made enough progress in armaments; it is now time to make progress in learning to do without them.— Constant. —o — —o — Ono great need Is for a thoroughly good working-class education, so that the workers cannot be stampeded with scares and plots as they were at the last election. —A. J. Cook. If it were possible to bore down to hell’s fire through the earth enough heat from the molten mass would be found to work the industries, and the landlords would claim a royalty even on that. —Robert Smillie. —o — —o — The owner of the means of life today partakes of the nature of a high wayman; he stands with, his gun before societies’ temple; il depends upon him whether the million mas s may work, earn, cat and live. The capitalist. system of production and exchange must be supplanted il progress is to continue. —Rt. R<*v. William Mont gomery Brown, D. D. Government ownership of radroads is better than railway ownership of] Government. — Eugene Debs. —o — —o—“T don’t think L like ‘clever’ people very much, unless there is something much deeper beliind it than cleverness. I like a stupid, loving person better. •’' —Olive Schricner. —o — —o — The notion of ending war by the sword is not only chimerical —like the notion of ending beards by the razor --it Iris not even the moral value of the most Utopian ideals. —Zangwill. —o — —o — The Stock Exchange has acquired an influence so great that it is able to call armed nations into the field to fight in its interests. Blood flows in order that the demands of High Finance may bo liquidated. — Von Moltke. —o — —o — G- men bowed with labour O *women young yet old, O heart oppressed in the toiler’s breast And crushed by the power of gold. Keep on with your weary battle Against the triumphant might: No question is over settled TTntil it is settled right. —o— —o — The worst of war is not the death on the battlefields; it is the meanness —-the cowardice —the haired it awakens.—Olive Schreiner. —o — —o — A crowd is not company; and faces are hut a gallery of pictures, and tallc, hut a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. —Bacon. — o — —o— The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relations, houLl. one of uniGn • •<!! working people of .<)]' nations and tongues and kindred*. —Lincoln —o — —o--We can never have any form of So- ( eialism until the people want it, and t.ho very noblest and most perfect form will end in failure if the people arc unfit for if.—Robert Blatchford. —o'— —o— The singers have sung and the builders have builded. The painters have fashioned -hieir tales of delight; For what and for whom hath the world’s book been gilded, When all is for these but the blackness of the night? —William Morris —o — —o — A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty ' is worth a whole eternity in bondage. —Addison. — o — —o — Reading is thinking with someone' else’s head instead of one’s own. — Schopenhauer. —o — —o—- ! To degrade science and intelligence is all that capitalism has done for brain workers. —-Paul Lnfargiio. —o— —o— As coal is an industry upon which all other industries depend, it is necessary that private profit and private

| interest should be eliminated from it I -Mr Robinson Dennison, M.P . I —o — —O-— • Every man us an individual is secondary to tv hat he is as a v/orker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him. — Stedman. —o — — n — The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money collecting macnine, and capitalist; and when the mob Wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sots its money-making machine to borrow the money from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob. genera-/on after gen er at ion. —Rusk? n. —o— —o—- — lead and save the world and the world knows them not til! long afterwards.—John Burroughs. ——o— I Stanld with 'anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part, with Jum when he goes wron g.—Li ncoln. — o — — o— Little things that, fight and fail And die in silence and despair; Little things that fight and tall And fail on earth and son. and air. All trapped and frightened little things, The mouse, the coney, hour our prayer. As we forgive those done to i»s, The lamb, the linnet, and the Imre. Forgive us all our trespasses. Little creatures everywhere. —Tames Stephens. , —o — —o— The only practical nltomativ*' to monopoly exploitation G a 1-emoeratic public ownership in industry, and that 's the programme of the I nbour Move ment. —Wm. Graham, MF. —o — —o — We must strive to make of humanity one single family.—Mazzini.