"A HUMILIATING POSITION."
In its remarks on the dropping of the "gag" clause from the Second Ballot Bill ' the Christchurch "Press" says:— "We do not envy Sir Joseph Ward and Dr. Pindlay the humiliating position in which they now find themselves. The- Prime Minister deliberately set himalf to impose upon the public and the press of New Zealand restrictions unknown in any free country in the world, which would have produced in a British- self-governing Dominion conditions Avhich have now been banished even in Turkey, and are paralleled only in Russia. The question whether the public and press <vould have submitted tu these restrictions is beside the point. An attempt—a strong and persistent attempt—was made to impose them, and by that action the Government, and those who voted with them, must and will be iudjed."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 4
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135"A HUMILIATING POSITION." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 4
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