MR HOLLAND'S LECTURE.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 November 1917, Page 3

MR HOLLAND'S LECTURE.

(To the Editor). Sir.—lS 3- a dodger dealt out in Levin it is notified to those who are in terested in pabulum that a Mr Holland will y.ve Tent in the Century Hall to figures, and a ''collection to defray etc," "reservists iand housewives attention." If I have identified ''this intellectual orator" correctly is he not originally of Broken Hill fame, and still editor of the Maoriland Worker? ' Whatever the object of his visit, hi" past antecedents, with respect to workers' grievances, impliedi, or imagined, lie must be in the category of an industrial stormy petual. Given lie has talents, ability, of no mean order, it would have been more to the point if his energies had been expended in the increasing of harmony between master and man, employers and employees, than by disseminating since the inception of his paper the seed of discontent, rather than the advance of law and order in our midst. Had the pursuance of tliis desideratum been his objective, no one would have been pre. pared to do honour more than yours truly, but as this was not liis objective, not peace, but a sword, as it were, he has naturally forfeited the good opinion of those who place the welfare of Nfew Zealand as a. first call on their intelligence. United we stand or fall, i be it peace or war; hut this is impossible while unnatural elements, or fungoid growths, permeate the national life blood, and daily existence: The present crisis of the Empi'ro, thin chastening of blood, demands the sinking of all differences, legal or illegal, to meet the national demand to "win the war." The editor of the Maoriland Worker, which lias been most circulated in the spheres suggestive of sfrikes, viz. flax, wharves, and mines, and where itr? pernicious doctrines have been impibed and treated as sound logic, by the unlogical, must bear the blame of being the avant courieir in New Zealand of bringing the country near to oivil war, and therefore must be prepared for the obliguy and distrust that the thinking portion of the body politic indignantly feel towards it. lam surprised at the trustees of the Century Hall letting it to a person who by his writing i* the enemy of those who invest their capital on industrial or other development. Vide one paragraph : the capitalists are the descendants of the old fudal barons, the exploiters of our day andi generation. You are the serfs! Sane labour demands "Deeds not Words" of its representatives. Yours etc., W. M. F.