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Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 5

" The moment a people allows itself to be represented it is no longer free; it no longer exists.—Rousseau.

* * * # The idea of 'representation is modern; it. comes to us from feudal Government, from that inquitous and absurd system which degrades humanity and dishonors the name of man.— Rousseau.. «•• * * * There is but one law yrhidi, from its nature, needs unanimous consent.. . This' is the social compact; for ciril association is the most voluntary of all acts.. Every man being born free and his otrn master, no one, under any pretext ■whatsoever, can make any man subject -without Ids consent., To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.—Tßotisseau.. * #■ » # And .so, ■when bishops go on to platfoxzn ftp advocate the flogging ; 61 men who "live on tho earnings of prostitutes, if'helps them to forget tliat thoycleo ere living on tho earnings of t>rostitutes,and ape, by their support of a capitalist system, involving sweated labor and degraded housing conditions, neatly and efficaciously driving the prostitute into the hands of the malo "bully," ■whom they tUieu flog- for extracting his profit from-a damaged article -which, in the public market of supply and demand, they, have already \ming dry.—From "Crtao and Punishment," one of Ten Lector©? on $oclftl Subjects by Laurence. Kottsmaß, Incorporated In "PlougnaliateTand Phlulne Hooks."*