Socialist Illusions

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 243, 13 October 1915, Page 3

Socialist Illusions

! MORGAN WILUIAMS AT CHRIST- j' CHURCH. | ' Thero was a full house at the so- i cialist--tail last, Sunday-.- when Brother ] Morgan Williams came iv from the j •jpliice 4rhoro the' 't-hatt" grows', tell f ; somo of tho bottom dogs that 'they | wero barking up the wiong tree. Hoi ■said it-was not true that -the- capitalist p nvas not paying the blood tax'equally j|with Henry Dubb. He -must havoN •been reading Mudyurd Tl'plina, because'" ihe ssid irlfc-n he road the casuulityj' ;list, he found c.mongsL the killed and;' i wounded, dukes' sons, earls' sons, and; [the'sons of millionaires. He said iti ;wasn't Henry Dubb the worker who,- ---! paid "for this war, it was tbe capital-{' h»t.,. "How could Henry pay for it.''j j says Brother Williams; ; 'Henry doesn't lowa a stick." ..Someone interjected, I "Then why should he tight to protect I what has already been stoleu from I him;" Morgau said be didn't believe ;it was the capitalists who had brought 'about this war. In his opinion it whs ithe ignorance-of the governing chtssos. i."W.ho governs;-" Someone asked. /"That's according 'to the country. In j '; this- country, for instance, the workers j .j could govern if thoy had enough brain's, j .{"■"fyy.. blame, the poor capitalist for the) j shortage.or brains iv the workers';"' LMorgan. dealt, with' the subject irr his j iisual kind ' and sometimes brilliant | style. No matter how hard a question hit him, up he came smiling again. ; Some, of the proletariat felt like scalp- | ing our brother at times, but the ■ speaker dealt with a knock-out yblOw I when he said he didn't believe"; we •should ever-go back to the bad' old '[system. He believed this war-would 'bo followed by an industrial revolution. '■! That satisfied our I.W.W. boys. So ;long-as they believe that they aro go- ' ing to havo a scrap with their natural J enemies they don't car© a damn who I brought, about the war. VAG.