The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916. ANTI- CONSCRIPTION METHODS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 3 November 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916. ANTI- CONSCRIPTION METHODS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihapc Post and Waimarino News).

The methods of the pro-German party in Australia constitute the very best evidence of its Teutonic origin and control. They wanted upheaval; they have been spoiling for a fight; having cozened a large proportion of labour unions they have fooled themselves into the belief that they can conquer the whole of Australia and place it under I.W.W. rule, just as Germany thought in her super-foolish-ness to establish a German hegemony of the whole world. Like Germany, . they got well off the mark as soon as ! the casus belli was decided upon, and they are following up small, initial successes by deposing labour rulers and leaders, filling their places with the most rabid of the I.W.W. brand. They have commenced to convulse the whole country, and already there are -some ten thousand miners idle. in the Sydney Assembly a member with a foreign name, who has been made the leader of the new official labour party, has given notice that he will move a motion of want of confidence in the Government. The anti-conscrip-tion I.W.W. are already seeking to dominate or control the Federal Government, and it is pushing with all haste its spies and patrols into every corner of Australian labour. There is no question, however, that the leaders, who have been proved to be in the pay of and under the thumb of Britain's enemies, have made as stupid and egregious a blunder as that made by Germany in believing she possessed n super-strength and everything else super that would enable her to assume directorship of the whole world. They will eventually be beaten as Germany will be beaten, and as Germany as a nation will be pushed out of the front

rank for many years to come, so will the cause of labour be weakened, and all that Hughes, Fisher, Pearce, anc Company have gained for labour oy intelligence and unstinted labour win be annulled and lost. It must be understood that the anti-conscriptionist I.W.W. are not yet sure that their views have been carried; there are the votes to be counted, and there is a very strong probability that they will undo what those at home have done. The men at the front know as those at home cannot know, the pressing need for securing adequafe reserves, ready for use a* the proper moment to effect a decision that will make peace possible. The views of a legitimate British labour party should be held as sacred as the views of any other party, but a labour view contaminated by German treachery and German money is not endurable, and it may yet be found that all agitators with Hun names and proclivities of the "super" brand, together with the fools who have readily become their tools, will have to be treated as the traitors they are and expatriated to where they can wallow in Germai and methods. We are more likely to be considering our own interests by preserving peace in these far removed parts of Empire by expatriating Germans and philo-Germans to Germany, than by allowing them to commence a Germany of their own In the midst our civilisation. The barbarism of the Hun is incompatible with our mode

life, and it cannot be tolerated. In fact, there are not wanting indications that we must either banish it or hand ourselves over soul and body to their domination. Have we not the experience in Australia that these traitors in a British country stop at nothing, even murder is practiced if needs be. Sabotage is a major precept, and it i being practiced to a most alarming extent. Hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of property has bee:: burnt, or otherwise destroyed, while hundreds of lives were risked. Fortunately, residents in the condemned ' buildings have to' the present escaped, but that was no part of the design c the I.W.W. Hun vampires, who were proved in Court to be guilty participants in the burnings. We have sympathisers with, the aims of the Commonwealth Huns in New Zealand who from the encquraging words they have sent to the traitors across the Tasman Sea, may be expected to open up a campaign of sabotage and murder in "New Zealand. It is a logical corollary that they should practice themselves what they admire and openly encourage in others.. We do not believe that the people of New Zealand would tolerate such actions for a moment, and retribution would follow swift and sure; but there is a danger that sonu maudlin sentiment may prevent a speedy and sensible realisation of what any hesitation or diffidence in dealing with the threatening storm may mean to this Country, and all parties should unite in evolving measures to prevent the pro-German I. W. W. from emulating in this country what their confreres have done in Australia. Those who are not winnin this war are against winning it, unquestionably, therefore those who are opposing the doing of what is un -

iably necessary to win the war are as much on the side of Germany as the Huns in German trenches, and they have no right to the claim of free citizenship in any British territory. Aus- ; tralia is now reaping the fruits of allowing German communities, German towns, to spring up some forty years ago, and South Australia's pill must be an exceedingly bitter one just now. Let us in New Zealand be guided by experience now vividly presented.