INJUDICIOUS UTTERANCES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 10

INJUDICIOUS UTTERANCES.

(To' tho Editor.) Sir, —Whatever motives may have actuated Sir Joseph Ward's political actions during the last few years, and •his recent speeches in tho Honse, they nevertheless havo had a most baneful effect upon the law-breakers in New Zealand at this present juncture, as tho following will show:—While speaking to hot Socialist the other dav, and endeavouring to show him tho folly of his presertt actions, his following utterances arc worth repeating: "No good your wasting your time talking to me," he said, "I'll never-give in. We are bound to win, and as long as Ward, Webb, and Payne aro in the House, they'll never see any of us strikers go down without making a noise. Look how 'Joe' stood to us during the tramway strike in 1909; how he slated tlie scab' mounted constables the other day in the House, and stuck up for the Police. He is one of the right sort, and if he had been in 'Square Deal Bill's' position to-dav • he would have made thc'scabs' sit up before this." On asking him if _ 110 approved of giving and then'breaking an agreement, ho replied : "Certainly, if wo'can gain by it. Didn't some Minister of the Crown make all sorts of rotten agreements and promises to get the electors to vote for him at an election iin Auckland way? When it was mentioned in Parliament, lie laughed, and knocked 'em all sky hieh by saying: 'This is a free country. When a'man was speaking at an election it didn't matter what promises, or tpiclo, thpv w*ro fools if they believed nil he said.' The same , here: that's what wo've done. Jon's one of the right sort." From the above it is'very evident thatthese followers of HicVev, Young, and Holland hold our late Premier in great favour, but whether the support of that ejass of man at the next general elections will make up for the loss of support from the law-nbi'ling portion nf th° community is ind""] verv doubtful. —I am, etc., PEACEMAKER.