SEDITION UNDISGUISED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 4

SEDITION UNDISGUISED.

AN INSULT TO LOYAL WORKERS.

PERPETUATED IX THE NAME OF ‘■LABOUR." The Dominion, in its issue of Saturday lasi, says: — It is worth noting' that the Maorlland Worker of Angnsi -lih still hears on its title page (he words ‘•Official (Organ of the United Federation of Labour and the N.Z. Labour Parly.” As we have not heard that the editor has been dismissed or tin* issue recalled, these organisations therefore identify themselves with the views put forward in the leading article and the editorial “Words in. Season." on page 2. A correspondent in a letter elsewhere directs attention to tin concluding sentences of a paragraph in the latter .section, which ran as 1 allows; — If Ireland succeeds in achieving her independence it means tin* break-up of the Empire. That will be a blessing to the world and an inspiration to the cause of Labour. To preserve the British commonwealth of nations lifteen thousand of New Zealand's sons lie dead, am! eighty-iive thousand more risked their lives. Now avc are told that the Empire's destruction would he an inspiration to Official fathom' in New Zealand. The Him war lords themselves could have said no more. In the same paragraph it is asserted that majority rule by the ballot box is “rotten in principle and practice." In the adjoining leading article, in large type, it is staled: In British communities it is idle lo hope for a revolution after the Russian method. . . While, therefore, we favour revolutionary principle*, we recognise 'that methods in such a country as Maoriland imisi he a compromise between reformist and revolutionary. If all this means anything if means that the organisations named above, which control the Maoriland Worker, are prepared in principle to use methods of terrorism and outrage to impose their will on the people of New Zealand. At the moment they do not think they eon Id Avin by Mich means, and their use is therefore not immediately expedient. What the majority of the people of the Dominion desires is a matter of no concern lo these gentry. Majority rule is ’’rotten in principle and practice.’’ It is tvell that the public should he aware that this sort of poisonous stuff is. being openly printed ami circulated.