SOCIALISM.
bin,—l see in your issue of to-day a letter from " Ringarooma " concerning what lie is pleased to style, the Sunday entertainments at the Fountain. Is ha not the correspondent who about tlirte years ago advocated in your columns t'lio blowing-up of the Cargill Fountain with dynamite? But three years' propaganda work with good results have gone on since then, and will go oil till llio glorious time arrives when tho wage slave, emancipated from the present system of capitalism, shall begin to know 'what life and happiness really arc, as lie cannot do to-day while living in dread of starvation, or semistarvation at the best. If "Ringarooma" is content with this system, lam not. If Socialism is repugnant to him. he is not compelled to listen; but that others appreciate tho efforts of your humble servant is evidenced by the fact of an intelligent crowd attentively listening for over .an hour in spite of the counter attraction of tlie churches. Our forefathers fought for freedom of speech, and wo, their descendants, will, if necc«ary, fight and suffer to maintain it.—l am, etc., Ri: VOMJTIOK AHY SOCIALIST.' March 5.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 14
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