BUCHANAN'S BOUNCE. THE SHIPPING STRIKE

NZ Truth, Issue 437, 8 November 1913, Page 5

BUCHANAN'S BOUNCE.

THE SHIPPING STRIKE

Bucolic Bluggoses Braggadocio ♦'Face Them and 'Fight"

Ho! lie! The farmers are up! After a long series of fat y.nr». In which they have well feathered their neat* and have, after p*rtd»i<.nt agitation, mnjured the freehold at tho original value, they find the worker beginning to aak awkward questions. fl«i v...m> to know "Why?** Why hf« t>uurr should bo anything from la Jd to Is 6d

a lb? Why his bacon shobjd be 3 s S3 a lb? Why he should have; to eat the ' third-class' meat and pay i more for it than .hli* brother 1 'wor.tr r [Is paying for first-class moat ; in the i Old Dart? Why his egsrs range from Is 6d to 2s fid'a^do-Boh?* * And so on through -the long; s4d! list which* comes under the question of, "Tbe High Cost of Living." .'. ■-.'■'' ■'' During .alt these fit .years the farmer' has been reaping the boheifit. and | his calling has become' easily the most ! prosperous In the^Diminlon. In face of all these pelftinent -queries/ -which I threaten' the cohtin-ied existence of his ; privileges, he raised his alarmed Uud at Carterton last Wednesday night; and through his mouthpieces, the new betitied Walter Bucl«n£auYand Hughia Morrison, uttered '-a wail and used inciting language that would entail on a striker- a ♦^stretoh* on tho Tvrace. Listen to the latter;, IF WE fIAVE BRITISH BLOOD ENOUGH WE WILL GO DOWN AND.JFAdB THE RSVO- ' LUTIdNARIES. . And then 'listen to the hoary-headed old Tory bachelor, Buchanan, talking about -an offer ho had made to the bludgeoning Government: You Yean imagine my keen disappointment at an able young '• fellow like myself being turned off 'as 'I s , was, ■■' ■•• - ; ' ■'.- J - He went on to say that the question was whether New' Zealand was going to remain a ttee Odutltry. and whether men willing to work were to be allowed to do so without Interference. 'Truth** smolea Brail* when It beaid this, and said to Itself: "That la just the question, Sir Walter. Are tho wealth- producers of this country to he i free men, or are they to accept cmditions that will keep them under the heel of such corporations as the Union S.S. Co., the Wellington Meat Export Co., and the Gear Meat Co.? How these crusted old Tortca. do give themselves' away I Unwittingly, the King's anointed Buchanan has told the whole story. "There is no saying how far this trouble will spread," he continued. True, p YKing*! Tho men know snpro than they did th '30. They have learned some things, since. They know hy what devious -methods tho moneyed class aro enabled to live In retirement and luxurious ease, while they and theirs have to continue the grim struggle to obtain the barest of bare subsistences. "I came up here the other day to see how many horses could be got, and I was met with a, willing response to my appeal." gravely stated the wlre-pul-ler-tn-chlef i{o the^, Massey Marionettes. Yes, you got horsas and men, too —but men of what .sloes? Ask your detective officers.. The position to-day recalls the days of the Boer war; "Accusations had (Continued oa Next Pago.)

(Trrstde_nt, ITntud Federation of Labor and Secretary Wellington Suamcn's Union). A worthy old hauler !« he, Though hts longur may waarabltfreej IhH whon dcsjtitna; with Piute Ii«? would #iv<? him ''the boot,'' Fo w« <«m't tey that Tfrm'a Taj- at

been made against New Zealand's brave sons that they had been guilty of -outraging Boer girts and women, ijick • Seddon took up the cudgels on behalf of the virtuous Cohen-tingen-ters, and called an indignation meeting m the Theatre Royal. Dick, with tears m his voice and his lungs fully distended, indignantly, denied tho allegations. And m good round" terms denounced the "alligators." Sir Robert Stout followed him, and In his calm, philosophic, milk-and-watery style, said that" he was quite -sore that no New Zealand -boy , -mould bo guilty of such outrageous conducj:. "Truth," who was present, indulged m a quiet ehockJe, for ho had read, m the previous* day's paper, Lady Stout's annual report on a maternity home m Wellington which she was then ' conducting. In one paragraph she said: I am very sorry to have to report that fduti«» of the Maternity ifomV "liaye been very much increased* 'by the presence of Boer contingent.? -in Newtown Park. ■ .[ ,-y'''-.: ! '-.--■ It never" caine' ; dut whether Sir-—erst-while ntdlcal free-thinker— Bob had revised that' report or not. ■■-.• Now comes 'Sir .'Walter's piece de resistance: "I have been a' workeV all my life, and any Bs»si#pn I have attained has been attained -by hard work/; Splendid, when* -you- come to think of / It. Here is tho. weadtliiest bachelor m New Zealand, Ywh|},.,wlil leave behind him. acknowledge^, neither chick nor child, boas&ng ibtl he has made himself. InYfacii.' h'e'*'Has been so busy making' himself -that he has not had time td mafce others; "Truth" would rather Tjq f he father Of five or six wellgrown r bby£v and "&irls ■ than the owner of Sir Walter Buchanan's thousands. But even the newly-roado knight cannot boast ofc tbosc/t thousands being made by^ himself... , They have been made by the ib^gstry of the .people e£ Sew Zealand, wbose produced wealth has been «p^j^,by the Meat, DairyProduce and Shipping; Rings In which Sir Walter hast been such a potent factor. Self-made: Sir' Walter. It is well that $jDr"WalEei i? &dmit_s it ajjd relieves his 'paTehts 'and God ' of all blame m the mactter; "But, go to! you and your class 'artf* parasites on the patient, long-suffering toilers who only receive a beggarly pittance out of the. wealth they produce. ,