KEIR HARDIE.
DEFENDED BY BEN TILLETT, Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the close ofhis address to-ni"ht Ben Tillett was asked to state his opinion of Keir Hardie. He replied: "Keir Hardie 19 a very good fellow indeed, and you must not take all the Press savs for gospel. As a matter of fact, the Most important heads and representatives of the Press in India who are in correspondence with our own great papers hare united in a protest about the misrepresentations going on a; to the condition of affairs existing in India, lour excitable member of the Parneli tOMeil has shown himself to be very un-Bntish in his remarks. If Mr Keir Hardie comes here he will be able to aake out a good case for himself. (Ap?r"Si. a Britis ' l subject, continued Mr. Tillett, and speaking to you as Britishers, I say .that when any country dominaiing another people permits the death from starvation of two mUlions of her subjects in one year, that government is bad and that capitalism is bad that permits it"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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178KEIR HARDIE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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