IMPOSITION.

NZ Truth, Issue 177, 7 November 1908, Page 4

IMPOSITION.

As the date of the elections draws near, the Dominion is being inundated with a horde of idle cold-water parasite wowsers, peregrinating from towp to town m the prohibition cause. These men fell put with 1: Ultimate work m their youth, and they've nc/er made it up since. In fact, - they'll never work again, or 1 at anyrate, so lon~ as a few silly crajiks will support them m their idleness, and so long as an 'unthinking public will tolerate their existence. They produce nothing but crbhk statistics regarding "Bung" and isolated tales of the effects of tire cursed der-rink. Any schoolboy knows the effect on humanity produced 'by excessive der-rinking, and long before that boy himself ii able, or inclined, to Hift the finger, he sees m the streets occasional horrid examples of the curse., it he has not the ordinary intelligence to' avoid initiating said' example, then he is •better out of the woxl'd altogether. . iSurcly enough, too, Nature provides for his exit; for the man. who must and will drink to excess soon passes out. . That is the natural law, and all the lsitts, the Tommy Taylors, the Palmers, and dead-beat water cranks of Ward's Own Country cannot deviate or inlljuence the result. The existence ol these cold-water guns m a healthy working community is as much a curse and scandal as the spieler, the card-sharper, and the welsher-."-The professional agitator of the lsit-t brand lives upon the game. He becomes a tax upon the rest of the human workersof the Dominion, and the workers should bear that fact m mind when they go to the ballot-box. Just imagine what would happen to Isitt and Co. if within tWentyfour hours they actually got all they insincerely or sincerely asked for ! Suppose, for .example, they succeeded m getting humanity to adopt air their wild, narrow-minded, cold-water, crank ideas j and theories. What would become 01 : Isitt? Would 'he turn to hard graft ? No, ■ he wouM promptly raiso some otljer-f catch-cry for a gullible public !, and odds , on it would he a no-graft job. In no res- , pect would that conduct differ from the | conduct of the confidence man. The m- i telligence of the public must soon assert itself . and drive idle impostors and'coldwater guns to "git work." It is the boimden du^y of „' every, decent workingman m, this community to explain, to ■every decent woman the grave imposition of cold-water guns, m order that the vote of the Dominion may stamp the parasite out of existence. ' How long will Labor stand the imposition?