Coffee & Cream

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 243, 13 October 1915, Page 1

Coffee & Cream

"War ia delightful to those who hare bad no experience of it.—Erasmus.

Tho'peace advocate whose work is of value is the one who talks peace- when others are talking war. —Allan Benson. "War is the faro-table of governments, and nations the dupes of the game." To havo real world peace we must havo real world social and industrial justice. _nicker:"Whom does the baby look like?" Bocker: "Ho is neutral."— "New York Times." Berlin, we understand, uses readymado cigarettes, but Vienna rolls. — J "Columbia State." Jingo patriotism means the blind approval of the acts and policies of whoever happens to havo possession of their reins of government. The only thing Sooialism proposes to take away from any maa is the power to make a profit from the labour of any other man. "Tho trade of governing has always been monopolised by the most ignorant and tho most rascally individuals of mankind."

Profits and luxury for the few, war and poverty for the many, or Socialism and peace for all—it's up to you, Mr. Worker; it's all in your hands. As you vote so shall it bo done unto you.

Recruiting Officer (to girl): "Aren't you going to let your best boy go?" Girl (tearfully): "I've .let five go. I supposo you'll have to have the sixth." —"London Opinion." As long as the people are willing that commodities shall be made for sale and not for uso they shouldn't growl when profiteers cheat them. —Queensland "Worker." According to tho Melbourne "Age" "Christianity, in the opinion, of Archbishop Clarke, has received a great uplift in Melbourne as a result of the war." No wonder Peaco weeps 1 The time is ripo and rotten ripe for peace; but the war-controllers say "nay; thero lmißt-te-fliorsvhjp-d.''.- Nothing like "bel-lud, lago," to cement the 'pact of peace.—Q. "Worker."

According to a Sydney weekly, the wealth of Australia is £1,221,919,393. But tho trouble is that the few havo tlio millions and the many aro lucky if they have much more than units. — "Australian Worker."

The Labour and Socialist forces in all the belligerent countries have decided to press their respective Governments to declare, "not in vague meaningless generalities, but in clear and specific terms, what they aro fighting for." The social revolution. . . cannot draw its poetry from the" past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past.—Karl Marx, in "The Eighteenth Bruniaire of Louis Bonaparte." "No, Joseph, of course not," said the grocer. "The usual proportion in days like these 1 Where's your patriotism? Only half the usual proportion of sand, as long as our gallant troops at the front have such need of sandbags."—"London. Opinion." In order that thej may have the privilege of pulling cows' teats, Al&crilandera have lately paid the ing price of £135 an acre for Jarying land near Gisborne. Now what liWr.B the Cold Hash Government think is going to be the end of this soit of thing?—" Bulletin" (Sydney). It is only by their legal ownership of tho natural resources and machinery of production of the controlling industries that the capitaus-'s are able to dictate the policy of this government. To remove them as Frank Holt attempted to remove would be absolutely silly and do no good. Killing Rockefeller wouldn't kill Rockefellerism. Changing men and not conditions gets nowhere. — ; "Appeal to Reason." j A British magistrate recently made , some scathing remarks about silly women who went about sending white feathers to men who had not enlisted. One man was driven to suicide by some of these scandalous females. Queensland "Alert" (Labour), in commenting on the British case, remarks: "We have heard of the 'White Feather' female here in Australia, and advise anyone who is made tho victim to deal with all such by putting them across their knees and smacking them good and hard." Little Worker Spratt could eat no fat, His wife could cat no lean; Mr. Capitalist camo along With a smile nnd a song And now tho platter's clean. —"Appeal to Reason.

Rome, from tho Vatican. July 28» 1915.