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Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 12

Law |a,nd equity are thmgs v/u : cu God hath joined together,, but which man hs,th x>ut asunder.—Colton.

I The evils ef the capitalist system j are fundamental in their source, their naiure, and tlieir effects. No "tinkering .willi" -or "patching up" or "refornung ,, can make tlie system other than a system of injustice and inequality, of oppression and. exploitation, of immorality and inhumanity. The talk of "reforming" and "patching up" the system reminds us of the story of the poodle who was "reformed" in a number of ways. His body was shaved, a tassel left at the tip of his tail, ia hole bored through each ear, a blue bow put on one ear and a red bow on the other, a brass collar : placed around his neck and a fancy blanket on his fcjack; he received different treatnient anfl was put to .different uses, but a>*; the end of it all— a poodle he was ana a poodle lie reniafnedl.