DEAN POWER'S SERMON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 9 December 1914, Page 3

DEAN POWER'S SERMON.

To the Editor. Sir—The sermon nveached by Dean Power on Mr. Massev's meeting in Hawerahas evidently stirred some of the

on and published in various newspapers, and when the mixture is carefully analysed love for the working nian or his interests will not be found as forming part of the compound. Oil the present occasion I most heartily endorse the Dean's sentiments. He is probably afraid that the working men will repeat at the coming election the unparalleled folly of which they were guilty at the last, but unless the workers have said goodbye to their senses altogether there should be no eause for alarm. The Massey Government, which was brought into existence by the votes of the working class, showed its boundless gratitude by sending undisciplined mounted "specials" to the various sea ports to deal with labor according to the dictate of their own sweet tempers during the late strike. I am not a "Hed Fed" nor an extremist, neither do I believe in strikes, except as a last resource, but I love fair play. During the strike the Massey Government proved its idea of that attribute as applied to the workers to be on a par with the idea held by Germany, the land of the mailed fist. Strike, strike hard, and strike again! is Mr Massey's motto as avowed by himself. The Massey Government and its proteges despise the working man, and during the strike took no pains to hide the fact; yet now the Premier is cooly stumping the country asking the working man to put them into power again so that if during the next three years he should have the cool audacity to stand up for his rights against the Union Co. or any other company, the Government may have the chance to crush him out utterly and reduce him to the prince ly fare ,known as bread and water. The worker who votes for the present Government will richly deserve all the misery which that Government 13 bd able and willing to confer upon lilra <m the slightest' MDVOc&ti.Mi.—l am, etc., . A WORKING MAN. Ilawera, December 7.