JIM THE MILKER.

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 6

JIM THE MILKER.

DISCOURSES OF LANDLORDS AND USURERS.

Crime Caused by Wicked Usury. The "Mistresses" and "Domestics."

When me and the bosses wife (Madam Sharkey) were scoffing oysters and porter the other night 'she says to me dear Jim what would yer do if yer were Goard ?. would yer letthe fat man, the rack-renting landlord and the usurar tear the guts out of the, peepul of this city ? would yer' Jim '! No me dear I would 'dam the hole push of them and send them to hell where there is gnashing of teeth, yer make me blood boil when yer talk about sich double distilled notorious scoundrils. Let me tell yer that the landlord the usurar and fat mam generally are turning this city into hell upon earth. The Divel has the whip hand every time. The usurar charges yer from 60 to 120 per cent, the landloard demands half yer wages how is' a cove to support his wife and fambly ? no 'wonder that there is so many cases before Dr. McArthur who , is the only magistrate m this colony tv>ho is not affraid of the fat . man, his troubles about fat men he deals': m ■ .justice all the same the fat -gouhl wtmld_.like to see -Dr.- Mack swinging by. .the neck, they hate ; a •■just man: - Now going back to the usurar, there wa_s a cove named M. Luther who said this "After the Divel there is no greater enemy of the peepul than a usurar," also m old times the same lockers were excomunicated ; and left to feed the strangling swine who came that way their soles were also handed over to Judas m Hell as the onley place fit for- them. \Yer must ho also as a student of history that the landlord is even a viler cove than the usurar although as Old Nick said about his horns they are a pretty pair.' Let it be known to all men that m this small city there has been miiw Several coves through the action of usurar also a cove that was pressed by a usurar killed several of his kids, he was driven mad and is still m quod. But the usurar s who caused all this abomonation are they m quod ? no they are not, they are called high spirited citizens who are pushing trade. Trade my Gord it is a system to destroy the peepul. • Can any cove that : can explain how. the 'worriking man never gets more than Ms tucker no matter how much he worricks while the employer, alias the fat man, gets more greasy every day T If this fat iocker would dp any wurrick it would be all right, but does he do it? no he refuses to do a dammed stroke but grinds money out of the lean mans bones. Here the bosses wife fell on me neck and wept she. crying oh Jim yer are a profit after the order of Melkisidick. By and by I got her suthed telling her not to be vexed as a time was camming when I would come m me glory and smite them (the fat man) hip and thy even as me servant smote the : Bmalikites m the i valley of Jepopit. Here Madam re- j minded me that I w,as not pmnipertent ' and as a truthful cove I had to admit r the,. .fact it is a dam pitty all thetfsame. Now getting away from me Jiisili possition that I thought I had, what is all this rumpus about t& 'domestics; luiign? the bosses .wife. '6Madam^Shaykey );, points out.^ip. ...me ■ that yer ; see* in. the papers what* the:' mistresses will do and what they wont do, is a m/istris a woman who is cohabiting with a°well-to-do cove ? I hunted up the dictionry and found that such was the ease otherwise these snob women the wealthy lower order women . would hold their piece, but yer cant make a silk purse out of a pigs lug, so let the vulgar . creatures rip. Mistress Ho Ho, if they were decent they would not deny to their girls common justice. To Wcstbroke I send .greeting, and trust that through "Truth" the lean man's 'paper something may be done' to relevie a hard used class. The bosses wife informs me 'that as soon as a girl gpes ■to service m a fat mans house that he, the fat mans, I wants to seduce her. he looks oh it as a matter of right, and as the ddmestik worriker is always better looking than the mistris she the mistris makes it hot for all it m : ay concern. JIM THE MILKER.