DISLOYALTY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2155, 27 July 1920, Page 3

DISLOYALTY .

MR. HUGHES SPEAKS OUT

“WE SHALL SMITE THEM HIP AND THIGH.”

Melbourne, Yesterday.

Mr Hughes, in his Bendigo speech, said, in reference to Father Jcrger: “When we put a man aboard a ship by virtue of the law, the steamship company and the wharf labourers and the seamen'shall obey the law. If not, we shall see what we shall see. Neither shall be allowed to defy the law of the land.”, Denouncing disloyalists, he declared that he would “smite them hip and thigh.” Referring to Archbishop Mannix, he said he wanted the American people to know that Dr, Mannix did not represent Australia. If he said his utterances were supported by the : people of Australia, he said what was not true. Dr. Mannix’s speeches in America stamped him as a, man who had gone out in the guise of an archbishop to foment war between England and America, a man whose mission was political in essence. Dr. Mannix was a declared Sinn iner, and was using his high position in the Church for the purposes of political agitation. “We want America to understand that Australia Avas part and parcel of the British Empire; and avliosc hand is against the Empire is against ns. We want' to be friendly and do business with America, realising that her distiny and ours coincide in the Pacific. We want her help in the Pacific, and realise how important it is that the true sentiment of Australia should bo represented in America.”