Sugar

Mr. Charlton moved:—"That the Government be severely censured for referring the sugar transactions to the Public Accounts Committee before disposing of the amendments moved by the honorable members for Swan (Mr. Prowse) and Bourke (Mr. Anstey),and thereby delaying decision on the question of reducing immediately the price of sugar."


Brothers!

We all remember the time when our mothers
Said, "Not another spoonful, son; One 
Is quite enough."
We tried to put up a bluff—
Worrying mother every minute
To wangle some more sugar,
(Because of the alcohol in it).
And now,
When we have grown up, somehow,
Sugar seems to obsess us.
A craving for it seems
To possess us.
Even politicians,
Despite their exalted positions,
Seem to have sugar on the brain;
And beside it all other commodities
are vain.
Soap, starch, sardines, silks or singlets do not
Intrigue them much;
They turn deaf ears to such;
But just one mention SUGAR in the
House,
And hear the members "rouse!"
For in this zero hour
Sugar, somehow, has turned the whole
crowd sour.
You'd think it made for
Sweetness and content;
But it embitters all the continent.
Wild members rave
And so behave
That innocent electors stand amazed.
And wonder if they're crazed.
Why this persistent "sugar" all the time?
What is the matter with ling fist and
time,
Or lingerie, or lard, or lemon squash?
This sugar's getting on our nerves, by gosh!
We dream of it at night;
And when the light
Of early dawn comes creeping through
the pane,
The papers throw it up at us again.
"The Sugar Crisis"— Why should sugar be
Thus thrust itself into this stark publicity?
I want to know
Why can't they go
Wild and on mustard, margarine, or
matches?
The Government sits tight what time the
Opposition hatches
A scheme to oust them on the Sugar question.
The whole thing gives me mental indigestion.
Why sugar? Toujours sugar?
Seems to me
I'll never more take sugar in my
tea.
Is it the sugar that the members get
That causes all this foolish fuss and
fret,
Friends, for the welfare of this continent,
We need less sugar in our Parliament.