BEHAVIOUR Of RED FEDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 8

BEHAVIOUR Of RED FEDS.

Sir,—l beg to occupy a littfo spaceill your paper to express my opinion of the.proceedings on the mooting held by the Hon. li\ M. ii. I'islier'cui Friday : List. It seems to nso that the-. Social Democrats, or "Red Peds," have sunk ta a very low depth when they eamwt, or ; rather will not, listen to any man Unless ho is praising them up or making them promises. Last Friday's niepting, without a doubt, has ' done Sir. Fisher more geod than if lu>! had hold a perfectly quiet ami orderly ■ meeting, as anybody who calls himself n iiian has a seiise el decency, aftd won't' ti.leratis this behaviour,' i*M certainly the men who occupied thn baek of the hall mi Friday had. no souse at all, . let nleuo a stfoo of decency. The maji'rity of the people were sup.p<vrtei's> of Mr. 'J?isher, but they had not had tlitjpractice in bellowing while, somebody is trying to speak. v So doi-ibt if we have many 'liieri- meetings like tto !a«t -that they will become as -expert as tho "Ital Feds," I was standing #.b the door' as thrco of the men were being gently but firmly oittetlj and one 01 them rcmaifteii: '"This is a public meeting, and everybody is entitled to havo a fair hearing." I thdvigfjt this statejiwnt j.list after the iwaring ho had given, ill , . Fisher was rather a gond specimen of his sense or lack <rf' seitso af reason and fairness. From this meeting, with some difficulty, one can i«agiiie a debate in -Parliament it—l repeat the s-m&H worcl "if -rthe Social Demociats or tljo. ''Rod Feds" ev*r cama'into.-office. If sti&h a disaster over gceui's,! hope t-hd shipping companies, in 'f-etunt fof the helpthey have reoeived from this Government, will have an ample supply of ships to convoy US ottt of the pow«r of tltoso iraiwsslbto people. I earnostly hopfl that the Government of "Sod's Qwn' Country" will never fall into sueh adepth of ifigradatioiii as to he controlled by sueh persons.--1 am, etc., / THOMAS W. ■ OLAIIESON,. Wclii-ngton.