EARL HAIG CONGRATULATED.

Shannon News, 1 December 1922, Page 4

EARL HAIG CONGRATULATED.

"" Y | ..PRESERVATION OF. LIBERTY. I I ——• At a. recent; function in London, at ■.. which Earl Haig., was the principal . guest,- Mr W. H. Fraser, in seconding, remarked?lt must bo a matter for satisfaction tp find that a man like : LordrHaig, who, apart, from his public position, is well entitled to speak ■ With .. authority by reason- of his know r- ; dedge of his countrymen and his sym- : pathv .with their, .aims and aspirations, is ready to-throw .in' his, lot; with those ; who hold the ’conviction that attained, ; not by curtailment of )( liberty, but by enlightenment; towards the proper, enjoyment of liberty, not by the imposi'tion of unknown and new conditions, «. i . . but by the reform of known existing conditions. ” We quote from a re''poi’f in The; Times,” London. Of our own men who- fought in France, Earl R aig wrote: *‘ No division in France built up fbr itself a finer reputation than the ‘ New Zealanders, whether for the. gallantry of their conduct in battle or for*.'the excellence of their behaviour out of the line.” In the face; of these statements, arewp then to entrust our manhood with the conduct of its private life, or are we to foist on it the childish tyranny ofprohibition—a proved failure. Vote .Continuance.