POINTS BY WILL CROOKS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12710, 1 December 1909, Page 1

POINTS BY WILL CROOKS.

It is time indeed that someone, came out to save this Invperial race which is made tip not of Dreadnoughts and armies, but of men and women ! Whose fault is it God's sunshine is .shut- out -from human habitations? Greed of gold! (A voice : "We've got it in WeJiiiigto.ii.") No doubt. Well you've got manhood suffrage, so get rid of it. 1 shall upver forget the dear old chap f:i Lord). I think you really ought to Imve a few out here. You'd make a fortune showing them round. This one was absolutely so enamoured of ancient laws and ancient customs that ho would rather part with his life than look at a new moon ! Let me tell you the Old Land is not played out yet. its inventive capacity ;ii!<l gomjs and its power olr initiation arc. us strong to-day as at any timo in . bygone days. j Nothing goes down so quickly as the I unemployed man. Tie falls lower and lower in the scale until it is impossible to raise him-np again. Keep a man i out of work long enough, and by sheor • neglect, by lack ol' opportunity, you've robbed him f>f all that made him of I value — of his very manhood. ,. j 1 have r..n^ much faith in a loader ; who can't push up behind. It is not freetrade or protection that '. is the matter, but the fact that forty million acres are owned by 2500 people ; thirty-eight million people, own i:o land at all. Unemployment, and by and by© loss of self respect. Then you read those stories of tho Thames embankment ; of fifteen hundred to two thousand lining up at the Salvation Army depot for their basin of soup and bit of broad. And then they crawl away somewhere — the Lord alone knows where. — and hide their wretched existence till it gets dark again. They wanted eight- Dreadnoughts, and the silly coons went around the country chanting, l; Wc want eight and we won't wait!" And the labour party replied, "We don't say we won't pay." But when tho Budget came with its Dreadnoughts, plus provision for social reform, they didn't shout so loudly ; they weren't half so patriotic t^cn, The Empire, is a good place when- it doesn't cost anything. The greatest fight is for the children. Let me most solemnly warn you as man to man., and as a father and a grandfather — whatever your suffering and sorrow, keep it away from the children. Let the children have a happy life, and not be little old women and little old meiu They will have to bear the burden of life soon enough. No crime or degradation could live on God's earth if" the British people would live up to their British tiaditions.—"N.Z. Times." ===== |