GUTHRIE'S GALL.

NZ Truth, Issue 161, 18 July 1908, Page 6

GUTHRIE'S GALL.

Tlie; Parson and? Politics.

iTite parsoir. steers clear- of ; politics^ .!»; foe- a wise devil^dodger, , if hot m Ins actions-, at., least/ m his public utterances.; but whfen' l he does; open Ins mouth on economic matters he invariably" putsMs foot fin it, and as it As a large hoof and -well Shod, thp trayrirapper's size m mouth is gigantic;. The Faunder of Christianity "was «eyer onti the side of : t_»' poor man and' *he worker: but His Disciples nowadays (aire. -Hie- sl^jpiipi-efe ofFat. AJiaughty ,gpsp£_-*_.o(nger. named: Rev. E, GL Guthl_ae ispbke iia tean&bfgi^tri severity of .the ■flnssjjent, ' Labafc '' Party 'm Chalmers '.Ch^Ddi, Timaru, the* other; Sunday. "The <___£J__tamea_l,- grudging, resisting spirit m which labor renders its* services ' not . only Ingres capital,, but kills; itself," remarke_a the -well-cloihed, weil-rfea,> well-housed ; bihl&ihanger.- > more the laborer (loafs, th» dearer; he makes the joint proiduets of capital and labor," hP added* .qfo_.te< unconscious of the absurd picture "conjured up of :the motor-riding capitalist actually producing someiMng. This fody advocate of the -rich appears to he •gnorant of the first rule of economics, ®amdy rf that capital is the product of labor; The irroyv Guthrie attacks our later, laass as taingJng every man down to ;ia dead levet m the. matter of wages . and ,*__o_____3fcion, forgetting that the law mereIfo fixes, a minimum wage and there is~no- [ thing to. ptjawertt-any employer giving any 'tlabQj-er a_sum m excess of that minimum [if be wants to pay for extra brains and. j sldlt. This. GuSrtie person once ' heard a | trades and Labor orator tell a story to. i\a^ street crowd about some logs that were f fflbatting down • the ssrollen: dtream. Many ftaen /were unemployed and watching, the ?ogs, when a young man came along with

; . -AS CIGARETTE IN HIS MOUTH jand- wearing a straw hat," and made a proJpositionito. the men that they should resjlCoe the lpgs. fir return for this the -men itwduld. get a third of their value and the wotmg man would take the other twojrelfirds. The environment of Parson Guthjirie has ever. been amongst; the monopolist jfclass, and he actually applauded this impudent robbery by the straw-hatted young* man.. "Had it not been for. the raongbt that flashed beneath the straw Slat,,' said the Timaru suHshifter, "there would have been no one-third for the men ' nor . twowthirds , for himself. ' ' Assuming that th£ enteiT^ereali^ £20, the straw-hatted dude, who looked on while fhe stupid toilets worked, would pocket £13 Gs Bd, while (say) twenty men would take £6, 135. 4d. as their share, Jbx 6s 8d each for a job ptrobahiy lasting several .'days.. Parsons of the -Guthrie type are .always : howling because people won't go to chinch, yet Guthrie furnishes the solution himself, when 'he explains that Iris church is on. the side of the boadler and the swindler ev^ry time. Most parsons make an_ attempt ' to > conceal the fact : that they work for Fat, and Guthrie will be regarded as an ,ass by bis-own crowd for giving the show away. What did the Founder of Guthrie's religion say:. "Sell all thou hast; give unto the poor, and follow Me," "Truth" preaches Christianity every week, and its -most bitter, opponents, are ministers of religion. .