The Nursery of Criminals— rthe Burnham Industrial . School. Fagan doesn't exist there, but his junior prototypes do. You must apparently raise great enthusiasm at a religious meeting— make them money mad, m fact— to get a big lot of squash on the plate. Enthusiasm is full ■ brother to emotionalism, and balf-oousin to antiDe Viltz. Wonderful what a lot of ink is wasted ih the writing of anti-gamib-ling petitions to Parliament. Why, a woman m Christchurch who signs them with gieat regularity bad a Court case th© other day over a gambling debt. What's the use of the slips of paper ? "The capitalist class used to send rotten ships well insured, out from England— and sink them. They went to church and prayed to God that the ships might sink, and then dropped a sovereign m tbo plate for the widows and orphans of the lost sai'ors. They drowned our class to make money. "— i Socialist Geoke at His Majesty's^
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NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 5
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159Untitled NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 5
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