Desperation and Rowdyism
Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 50, 12 December 1923, Page 4
Desperation and Rowdyism
Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill complained just before the elections that j rowdies at their meetings showed an offensive impoliteness by refusing to liste-n to their honeyed words, and £iberal and Tory candidates, fearful of the lcrociou.s mob sapped indoors under police protection rather than attempt to convert their critics to their sweet and beautiful ideas. Treated with scant courtesy, the exploiters' politicians, whose horriblfe incapacity has condemned millions of British workers to ignorance and destitution, pretended to be alarmed for the right of free speech. Hypocrites! Tne fact Is "(and' tt is an unpleasant fact from every angle) : that in. .asking people whcuu tliey Itave impsv?
erished to the point of exasperation to te.eh&e with tolerance and wisdom, the> $re asking for the Impossible— it #s sjtmply"n,os j© 'Even the Tory Mr. Baldwin perceived that, for did' he not, in Mβ manifesto to the womev, urge them, to th,£t the workers were nat nirvven, despftjt to Tha.t te nqw the position exactly. Three years of unemployment and ever-deepening poverty SftiUwjns. des- anii it is tfc#*ei:oi<e n.c& iߣ th.at they &ye a«sry Yftth po.l«tiG,al futiljsts who to perpetuate a rule of deceit andt rofcfeery. What is js st*j?We pr tfee Chu,rchAll-4asuitk typie expect a a.t all tfee much juaoie ijaejul foifc vrtiqpai they &are fullj- In a voFd- yyejt> majbes free speech (in the that fraudulent will be extipp,t from the feeJtce interruptions oi the impoverished) out ot the questjoji. Hunger is im>pati#nt (or fa'Aould bc>,, un.d, the wno cau?e it tfced not MrOnjder if faints a;e met with incredulity.