The Daily News. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914. DEPORTATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 3 February 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1914. DEPORTATION.

limit fulier ini'orination is available it i.-, not easy to determine whether or not the (iovenimcnt of the South Af-

riciiii Union was jusliiied in forcihu deporting ten Labor leaders or :ijiitutovs. From what is known, it \ery si.-rions siliiiitioii has arisen in varinus parts of tlii; country, ucrcssilafiiiL; tlic proclannLion of martial law. and when such is the ease people must lie prepared f:>r extraordinary proceedings. On tic face of tilings, il is surely a!i-nril to describe the deportations as "a violation of the elementary rights of citizenship," as was done by the l.aboi Conference at Clnstfow. The most, elementary rijjlil of eili/.ensliip is (.he riiiht of all law-abiding people to protection backed by all the power of the State. The British people in Smith Africa enjoy representative frovcrnment: they have delegated to the (iovernmcnt ths duty of protecting thein: and the Uovernment has of course full power to proclaim mania! hiw, and as extreme measures to deport, without trial, as I many people as it. may deem for tlii safely of the conimunily. It must In

assumed that, in acting as they have, -Ministers hu\e proceeded with a full sense of their responsibilities and with an eye to (lie host interest, of the people as a whole. Vet Liberal journals iii England construe their ads as "-i declaration of war against, ad Labor organisations/' That is what the London Daily News says, while the j I'aily Chronicle declares thai the deportations are "an nil'rout lo Libera! opinion throughout the world." Tints,; conclusions are premature, and we believe will be found to be altogether unwarranted by the circumstances. We, claim to be as Liberal in our views as the two London papers whose' utte,aarcs we nave nuutcil. vet we fail to

diseeri: any violence to Liberal prin-

ciples in the actions ol' (ieueral liotlia and his colleagues. The preservation

it peace and good order is as much a Liberal duty, surely, as it is a Conservative one. J't will be a sorry day when l.ibfi-ali-m is held to be synonymous v it'll lax -administration and a disiv- ;. ml for the country's socuritv against lawless disorder and incitements to v'olence. There has been quite enough disclosed regarding the situation in South Africa to make it clear that, there is a lawless element among- the Labor agitators, anil that violent lan- .'.' nige and threats of violent acts l.'.ve been employed. These tacts may justify the strong measures adopted for the preservation of order. During the general strike in New Zealand a f:wv weeks ago, the authorities found

ii. necessary to prosecute a number of labor agitators for usin;,' iullaimnalniy r.a.l seditious There fta.s then some talk of <lcportin» several of liiese disturbers of the 'peace who had recently arrived from oilier countries, -nil we believe public opinio;, woiii I liavo approved of that ,»em« dona. Happily, such an extreme step was unnecessary, nor was it 'deemed advisable to proclaim martial law; bul a wry little more asserliveness on the pail of the militant syndicalists would pinbably have forced Mr. to make me of jt.ll the resources of I lie >-a-.c for the protection of (he law-aoidin:.' masses, whose lives and liberties would have been menaced. In South Africa there is some reason lo sicpoc: that Ministers have discovered a plot to overturn the. Cuvcrnmcnt ami e ; .iabli-'n :■ Labor Republic. If so. |hj s would a;count for the sudden and secret resolve, to deport the leaders of I lie movement. I'util fuller informative, >» available. i(, is well to suspend jmo--n-ent. Ju the meantime, we ipiiie fail to see any "round for condemnine, General tiot.ha and his colleaeues. Nor /an w.' admit that there is reason for the apprehension of Ihe Loudon Times (hat the deportations will "provoke tile strongest, resentment" anion."' workers ii: the oversea dominions and at Horn--. T.ie workers in New Zealand, at any n te, are infelli-cnl enough U, know (I at trade unionMs have no license !o indulge in seditious or provocalive Inns Safe any more I ban other people, and tlat when I hey do «„ they must bear the conscpieiiees. Our Worker, also know-taught by sad experience -Ihai i" nil strife and violence ihev ;,,■,. .;,. variably (he Worst sull'ercr--,; am! the, are therefore ready to believe that the action of the South African t.'ovcrumeiil, will ~,-oce to be i„ (|„. |„. st ipi| „,. '■■!.s of ('he worker, I hem-elves. \y,

all, on occasion, require to be "saved from our friends,'' or (hose who pose as our friends, and (his seems io b, the position of trade unionists in Souili Africa at present.

■ .;,," is plentiful for th" country which has a »oud security ij o.ier. With this f.vt i;i mind, it is interesting to turn 1 '"'l' e:in!e of years or so, to the !"■■■'■ ■•■11 ihc Mackenzie (ioveriinient

)';''• : i 'l-datcd loaij. Tliere were l"i:d ia I'lions from the "lleformer-"' M'ur ;.r folly of raising shortd'.led loan,. :•;. : Mr Myers, then Minist". '"' t'im.mv, was roiimlly abused aiid ri iiei.'.eii. l.oml execrations also fell n am the head of Sir Joseph Ward when lie nilvi.-.'-.I and supported Mr Myers in V's dctcr.-Jnalion. Ihil what has been II e re-uli'.' The loan just lloated answers the c,iicry. :..r Myers and Sir •To.-eph said: "It. 's unwise to raise, a h.neydaied loan iijion such a liuhl market. It is belter to wan. for a fall." Tile '•KcforiiHTs" cried i,; rcnly: -'There .will hi' no fall. You are ru'iniuK the country by such a police." Well, notwithstanding the lirilliant political ahili'.y which was to rescue the country fimu all the ills of Liberalism, the fail his come, and in (he loan of the nresem. we have the indisputable proof. This ]),)iut should be remembered bv those who wish to take their polities with an oicn mind, ft is pleasine; to congratulate Mr Allen on achicviiu< this suce 'ss, partieularly after making the bad birgaiu he did over last year's loans: : bit, if his predecessors in office had not ; aided wilh foresight and wisdom his present achievement would not have