REAL WHITE PERIL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1990, 21 February 1914, Page 5

REAL WHITE PERIL.

Nt DEPORTED MEN.

SPEECH BY MINISTER OF

BAILWAYS,

STRIKERS DUPED BY RASCALS.

By Teleffiwh-ProEs Asfiodtttion-CowrfefeS

Cape Town, February 19. In the Union House, Mr. liurtcm, Minister of Hallways, declared tliat tho railway niCMi hnd been dektJed, barolicozied, aud duped by rascals. According to the secret code of tlje Railway .Men's Society, preparations had been raarto to run trains to suit tl» strikers and to issue an nltimetua against Lord Gladstone <the. Govenior-Gciieral) and the Gownmeat. ' Mr. Bjirton declared that he had not acted as it constitutional lawyer., but in the bona fide conviction that the deportation of the ringleaders was necessary. He would do the stunr? again under similar circuriistaneos. He admitted that the deportations wro grossly ilJegal, but men of the class' of those deported, constituted a real white peril to the country. Sir Thomas Smartt (Leader of the Oppositiou) said the procliwiatwa of martial law had the of a vast majority iu the country. .: Tlio dcjiortntions VBV-α a niiitake; the Onvenimenteliould "nave submitted a Bill authorising the deportations itamc'iiatoly- Papliftment opened. He. would support tho Gtn'eniuwnt father than take the responsibility of allowing tho deported men to return to eontmue their nefari. ous practises.

Mr, Hull (an ex'Slinister) said Jis reg:trded tiro story of a , widespread coilspiracy as Mieyely a;u aftertliougJit to justify the dojisi-tations. jt was, liesaid, the beight of Ho.usohso to allege a conspiracy beeawso nine ja-ebasses liad made injlnnmiatoi'.r speeches. The root eaas© of tlio trouble teds unhappy relations between masters airf wen.

HVMPESUAL POSITION*' SAGACIOUS AND NECESSARY WABNING. Cape town, Febrimry ID, The "Volkstora," -a journal in Dutelt ■and English, puMislied at Pretoria, says that Mr, ,Lp-.vis Hareonrt, Secretary of State for the* Colonics (in his rceon't speech in the House <i| Cp.ffiniens, in. attswe-r to a question, by Mr, UamsSy MacDanal.d concerning the do-portea men)., interpreted, with pbsohrto afeurncy the Imperial jjoskiorc; and, deserves tho urtstratec-l gfatikido ftf the Empire for Iris sagacious n.iul necessary warn*iflij against offowsive eriti-oism of colonial politicians by English Parliamentarians.