DISENFRANCHISEMENT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 17

DISENFRANCHISEMENT.

Dear "Worker, —Your conscription number was Al. The copy sent mc has gone the round of a dozen families. Many here say tho reason why they have allowed their boys to' enrol and attend camps was the- fear of bea-ng disenfranchised. I think that part ot the Defence Act a disgrace to civilisation, and it looks as if Ward and Co. were playing the fat man's game—weed out the staunch democrats and the rail-sitters will vote for the long-purse eento-v as the sky pilots are urging their "flocks not to countenance those who wilfully break the law. Judas iscarot ; sold his chief for 30 pieces ot silver, and the jingoes and superstition mongers would have the boys sell their birthright for brass buttons, bullets, and bunkum. I consider that every candidate seeking Parliamentary honours should be asked to repeal the Military Training Act and delete from the Statutes the, disenfranchising clause. Corn.ra.de Howard has suite red defeat as a city councillor, but he must o'eu try again, for cc an old agitator I have, been knocked down tunes out" of number, but never conquered. Wil-ti hearty greetings. —I am, etc., RothSm. & JOSEPH GREY.