WAIHI WHIFFS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 14

WAIHI WHIFFS.

r 'At a meeting of Mr. P. H. Hickey's committee, -held on October 1, *eports of a most satisfactory nature i&rere received from various parts of the Ohinemuri electorate. It wa-a decided 1%0. appoint an organiser to thoroughly jbjbivass the district in P. H. Rickey's llnterest, and Comrade Charles Smith i.jftas unanimously appointed. Great in'ierest is being manifested in the election, and if the working-class of Ohinei imrri only do their duty to themselves '• Said their organisation, then Ohinemuri '■Will have the honour of returning to (Parliament a straight-out Industrialist &nd an uncompromising Socialist. )k On Saturday evening Waihi was fairly bombarded with speakers on Socialism, Prohibition, spiritual salvation, j&tc. Comrades Fitzgerald and Smith Addressed a large open air meeting, find attracted a large and attentive audience. &j jVery evasive answers were submitted Tfey the No-license orators in answer to Questions re the supporting of politi&wl candidates who favour bare majority rule- Prominent No-Kcen.se people Smo declare that "drink is the cause %t all the evil in the world to-day," %t& acting in a very inconsistent manpier indeed. They are convinced that minority rule is very undemocratic, and •fyet they support political candidates ifvho favor minority rule. One speaker ■paid he was a "democrat and believed ■In majority rule —on some things 1" iPronibitionists, abolitionists, No-license .jadvoeates, be consistent. You have a i feood cause; don't prostitute it in orijder to glorify some of your own personal gains. Study economics more, I Sad learn to avoid that monster, inconifsistency. ... vt On Sunday evening, despite countIftesls 'tother attractions, a large atIjtentive end ©nthusiaistie audience 'kfeeted H. M. Fitzgerald, the popular iteuid eloquent Socialist lecturer. The ijhall was packed and numbers were finable to gain admission. G. N. Jones jpeoupied the chair. The speaker received a most hearty welcome and delivered a forcible aaid most instructive Wdress, which received the unstinted i Applause of his large audience. The iMibject,' 'The Social Evolution," in jfche hands of Comrade Fitzgerald provjfed a veritable eye-opener to most peoi>le, and the one complaint expressed ftfter the address was "We want more OWtzgerakl." 4 Comrade Ross (editor "Macmland Worker") is to be with us on Wednesfflay eveoning. A bumper house is as- * lured for him.—THE REBEL.