"A GREAT MAN"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 476, 28 April 1920, Page 1

"A GREAT MAN"

know you've read "Self-Help" and wished to be the greatness you have now attained, the man mighty beyond all circuTtislances. and free lo build a world according to your plan. Like

"all smiles" heroes from Ihe lower Mi-ader. you piled up power and weallh, but more than Ihis: Dictalorpjiip. a Roman pride, the shades of Caesar and iN'apoleon are your bliss. And yet the wounded ranks thai toil for bread, who cry you up and read your lofty name. In myriad papers where your light Is shed, what are they all to you but things of shame. Yours is the outlook harsh, the samp demand that stirred the Pharoahs and their ancient law. spoils to the victors, pomp, ihe mansion grand, but to the masses the crude dragon's claw. But there is change upon the world's old face. n grim half-smile —Ihe waking of the true; a light to brush away the old disgrace, and it will find a bittc-r foe in you. Not bloodshed, but a claim for standards worth, not war. but that, our songs prove honest rhymes, not hate, but n. new land in newer truth a welcome to the fairer, jusier limes. —J3. <-!• August.