JIM THE MILKER.

NZ Truth, Issue 90, 9 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 let the 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 man 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 fam--bly ? no wonder, that there is so many cases before Dr. McAtthur who is the only •magistrate, m this colony who is riot afiraid of the fat : man, his troubles about fat men he deals m justice all the same the fat gouhl would like to 'see Dr. Mack swinging by the neck, they" hate a '• juSti man. Now going back to the/ usurar, there was ' 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 jockers were "excorriunicated arid' left to feed the straggling ' swine who came that way their soles were also handed over to Judas m Hell as the onley place fit for ; tliem. Yer must no 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 him? 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- arid is still m quod. • But the. usurars who caused all this abomonatiori are theyin 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 wprriking man never gets more than his tucker no matter ho.w much he worricks while the employer, alias the fat man, gets more greasy every day ? If this fat locker would, do any wurrick it > would be all right, but does he do it ? no he refuses to do a dammed stroke but ' grinds m oney 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. Byandby.l got her suthed telling her not to be vexed as f, time.- was comming when I would come ■m me glory and smite -fihem (the fat man) hip and thy even as me servant smote • the Emalikites m the valley of Jepopit. Here Madam, reminded jaie that T was not omnipertent and as a' truthful cove I- had to admit the fact it is a -dam pi-tty all the same. Now getting away from ; me high p.ossi'tiori that I thought I hadjrwhat is allvtthis rumpus ...about; the domestics union ? the /bosses wife (Madam Sharkey V points out to me that yer see m the -papers what the mistresses will do and what they Wont do, is a mdstris a woman who is cohabiting with a well-to«do cove? I hunted up the dictionry and found that such was the, case otherwise these snob women the wealthy lfiwer 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 "Westbroke I send greeting ', and trust that through "Truth" the lean man's paper somethine may be done to releve a. bard, used class". ;T.he bosses wife informs me that as soon as a girl goes to service m a fat mans house, that he, the fat mans, wants to seduce her.- he looks on it as a matter of- right, and as the domestik worriker is always better looking than the mistfis she the mistris makes it x hot for all it may concern.

'JIM THE MILKER