MIGHT IS RIGHT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 8

MIGHT IS RIGHT.

Might was Right when Christ was hanged beside the Jordan's foam; Might was Right when Gracchus bled upon the stones of Rome; And Might was Right when Danton fell, when Emmett passed away— " Tis the logic of the Ancient World, and the Gospel of to-day." Might was Right when Spartacus went down in seas of blood, And when the commune perished in the self-same crimson flood; And Might was Right at Cripple Creek, at Tampa, Homestead —yea, " 'Tis the logic of the Ancient : world, and the Gospel of to-day." Might is Right when children die by thousands in the mills; When jewelled hands reach down and take the gold their blood distils; And Might is Right when maidens give their lovedreams up for pay— " 'Tis the logic of the Ancient . world, and the Gospel of to-day." Might was, It is, it e'er will be the One and Only Right; And so, 0 Hosts of Toil, awake! O working men, unite! Unite! Unite! For Might is Right; 'tis freedom's only way— " 'Tis the logic of the Ancient World, and the Gospel of to-day." "Industrial Worker."