THE FATMAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 749, 25 October 1919, Page 3

THE FATMAN.

Dear Truth,"— In these times when Uie profiteer is raging throughout New Zealand with a free hand to rob the people there is a great wail of sorrow throughout the land. In the meantune the politicians and the Board of Trade are doing their yery best how not to do it, and there are false profits abroad m the land. I ask "Truth," who always defends the rights of the People, if it believes there is any desire to rescue the people from the sharp teeth and claws of the profiteer? The average politician wags hi* jaw, and sometimes foams at the mouth, and declares with tears m Ma eyes that he is a friend of the people. lam sorry, very sorry, to say that h» Ls not Instead of being a friend of the people he is « wretched truckler to the fatman. He cringes to the fatman when ordered to do so. Though much distress prevails m New Zealand the fatman lifts up 'ids eyes to heaven and cries with a loud voice, "Behold, oh, Lord, look at the wage 3 I give them!" But he does not cry, "Oh, Lord, I take it all back, yea, every penny, on Saturday night" It Is yery hard for the wage-earning masses to live m New Zealand, and if a man Is married and has children, be is. Indeed living m a hell upon earth. I wonder how long this state of affairs will last At present the profiteer wags his Jaw (during the war It was a flag), and calls down the wrath, of God on all disloyalists. He also puts his tongue m his cheek, and prfctes of honesty, anyone objecting to being swindled Is denounced as a rogue. There is "no doubt the fatman, alias the profiteer, • has Brought much desolation into the world; likewise, «he has also abolished God and all Christianity, and nothings all the churches can say will alter this dreadful fact Yea, the fatman has unchained the Devil, or the A Devil has unchained the fatman. Anyhow the result ls tha «ame^Yours, eto~,

WILLIAM PETER GRANT. Wellington,