Coffee and Cream

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 1

Coffee and Cream

Does the Lord love a cheerful profiteer? —"Appeal to Reason." If a man ask for bread shall we give him a bayonet?—" Appeal to Reason." Diplomacy is the art of disguising, a lie until it looks like the truth.—Ex. Blessed are the poor in spirit. They do not find the War Regulations irksome, "England is not what is called a Christian country."—The Bishop of Ohelinsford. "Wβ back General Hunger to win the Xobel Peace Pfriaa thifl year."—"Forward." "Rat bites Eat!"—a "Labor Call" headline *rhen Hall and Holman turned on Hughes. "You live in poverty, Mr. because you vote to live that way."—"Appeal to Reason."The man who would' wish to rise with the lark should keep clear of the midnight ewallows. —"Labor Call." How to end the war. Order the jingoes and war makers to get into the trenches by 10 in the morning—and peace would be declared at 9.30 a.m. If capitalists remain in power we shall have a capitalists' peace—and a capitalists' peaoe is not a Trotsky peace. Better kick them out. Roman Catholic Archbishop McGuire of Glasgow, has just described Lloyd George as "'the most deadly enemy of the workers." Faeta will out. Editor: "Have yon submitted these poems anywhere else, first?" Poet: "No sir." Editor: "Then, where did you get that black eye?"—" Judge." The Cunard S.S. Company's profits for last year totalled .£2,501,840! The dividends work out at 60 pier cent, for the last three years. Be quiet there I Nβ peace talk; He did not know much about Sir' William Irvine, but he had heard enough to convince him that he was the nearest approach to a Prussian to be found in the Commonwealth. —Dr. Mannix. Billy Sunday's remark that "if hell were turned upside-down, upon the bottom would be found 'Made in Germany,' " knocks the bottom out of the old theory that hell is a bottomless pit.—Ex. "The Bible tells us that we should lore our enemies/ said the good vicar. "Yes, but the Bible was written before the armament trust was formed:," eaid the mere mtm.— u'x. . . I think workmen on strike are always in the right—at bottom, I mean. You've only got to look at them in a crowd together; they don't starve themselves for tun.—Arnold Bennett, in "The Clayhanger " A little girl wrote the following , composition on men: "Men are what women marry. They drink and smoke and swear, but don't go to church. Perhaps if they wore bonnets they would. They are more logical than women, also more zoological. Both men and women sprang from monkeys, but the women sprang , farther than the men. , '—"Ladies Home Journal." But if men would live up to reason's rules. They would not bow and scrape to wealthy fcols. —Lucretius (B.C. 95-52). NEWS FROM THE FRONT. The Allies at the Germans lunged, And won a fight at Name-Expunged, But French's army was defeated Upon the field of Place-Deleted. From Town-Blue-Pencilled, lovely spot, The Uhlans galloped, fierce and hot; But hundreds bit the dust and grass. In Plaoe-Press-Buxeau-Would-Not-Pasft, The hottest work in all the field Burst round Locality-Concealed. -•■"Newsnet." DOWN WITH THE SECTARY. Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights at my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried. If he kneel not before the same altar ac mc? From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss? No, perish the hearts and the laws that try Truth, valor or love, by a standard like thisl —Thomas Moore. OLD VERSION. "For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear." — Mark iv., 28. "But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also."—Matt, xiii., 26. NEW VERSION. First the blade, and then the ear, Then the private profiteer. —Melbourne "Fellowship.