MR KEIR HARDIE.
___ • (special to "tire PBBSS.") DTJNEDLN, January 11. Mr Keir Hardie, in his address fit Kaitangata, said:—"l am not in the habit of explaining what I say or do. For example, there was my action, in India. I leave m? work to explain itself, and if it cannot do that it must bo a poor kind of work indeed. I went to India to spend ten days, merely to have a lodk at the country; I stayed there two months. Tho reason was that I found the ( people of India to be without a voice in the doings of their country. They have no Press in which to circulate their grievances, they have no members in the Houbo of Commons. As I have for years taken an. interest in Indian affairs. I felt that I was bound to prolong mv stay to learn all I could about the country, and I did what I am doing hero in New Zealand—l mixed with the common people. There yon hay* the head and fount of my offending. There was r.*ver a day but I was in the company of pno nr other of tho officials of that great Empire, and they never one of them took any objection to what I had said or done in the country."
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13011, 13 January 1908, Page 9
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