The created should not have greater power than the creator. - Dr. Maloney, M.H.R., on Elective Ministries.

There was once a man who made a weird machine,
Employing dynamite and kerosene.
      His subsequent destruction
      Was a matter of deduction,
And a circumstance that might have been foreseen.


This gloomy incident I merely state
In case you have a yearning to create.
      In which event, be wary,
      Else, mayhap, a sad quan-dary
Will arise and face you when it's far too late.


Now, take the case of Toryphat, M.P.,
Created by the voters - you and me.
      Then in matters legislative
      He becomes, in turn, creative.
And creates a Deakook Fusion Ministree.


You will notice that this question, as a whole,
Is a matter over which we've some control;
      For, it we'd contemplated
      Ere the members we created,
We would not have landed things in such a hole.


And, in regard to this strange Ministree,
We are the folk responsible, you see.
      For it couldn't have existed
      Had not some of us assisted
In creating its supporters - Q.E.D.


Then, when a weird political machine
Of Tory flare and Fusion kerosene
      Blows our policies to blazes,
         All our most embittered phrases
Won't recover e'en the smallest smithereen.

"Den"
The Bulletin, 29 July 1909, p20