LEAGUE OF LOYAL CITIZENS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1920, Page 7

LEAGUE OF LOYAL CITIZENS.

AN" EXAMPLE TO THE DOMINION, The Dominion, in an editorial note, says: "By forming a League of Loyal Citizens Hawera has set aa emjnpla to the rest of the Dominion. Evidence is daily accumulating that New Zealand is facing an attempt by an organised minority to cripple industry and overthrow democratic government. That ia the objective. Any measure of success that may be attained by the promoters of this hair-brained scheme will be only in consequence of division and apathy among the bulk of the population. The revolutionary minority is highly organised, and it is most desirable, if we are to see daylight in our industrial and domestic affairs, that the majority should organise itself and give the Government a support that will greatly aid it in dealing in unflinching fashion with those who would prevent the affairs of New Zealand from being conducted in accordance with the desires of a majority of its citizens. The New Zealand public is long-snffering, but it is about time that it asserted its claims to eonsideraton. If all the organising is left to a turbulent minority there will be troublous times ahead, and the public must be prepared tamely to accept affront after affront. If it chooses to organise itself it is quite capable of putting a steam roller over the local Bolshevists that will effectually squelch these truculent wreckers, who constitute the real 'blacklegs' ot' industry. Hawera's move points the way to happier days." i