MR. KEIR HARDIE.
MR. BEX TILLETT’S OPINION
Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. At the close of his address to-night. Mr. Ben Tillett was asked to state his nuinion of Mr. Keir Bardie. He replied: “Mr. Keir Hartlie is a very good fellow indeed, and you must not take all the press says for gospel. As a matter of fact the. most important editors and correspondents of the press in India, who are in correspondence with out great papers, have united in a protest about the misrepresentations going on as to the condition of affairs existing in India. Your excitable member’ of the Parnell Borough Council has shown himself to he very un-Britisli in his remarks. If Mr. Keir Hardic comes jiere lie will bo able to make out a tmod case for himself—(applause)— as a British subject,” continued Air. Tillett, “speaking to you as Britishers, I say that when any country dominating another people permits the death from starvation of two millions of her subjects in one year that Government is bad and that capitalism is had that permits it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2213, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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180MR. KEIR HARDIE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2213, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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