FOR FREEDOM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 6

FOR FREEDOM.

SPEECH BY THE HON. J, ALLEN. ORGANISATION AND ENTHUSIASM. Tho Hon. James Allen, was received with applause and cliporiiif;. 110 thanked tho audience for his kindly reception, ,ind endorsed tho remarks of tlie chairman— the. reform party were out to "ivp. to everybody freedom of speech. "Whatever a man said in reason and wif»i.»i tho law ho would, not suitor by it. Like the chairman, he had been impressed by the stamp and tho typo of mam ho liad met at the conference—very much like the people he saw in tho audience. (Laughter and applause.) Ho was satisfied that under that party's rulo the destinies of Now Zealand were i.n sale hands. He commended his leader, Jlr, Alassey, and if they had the interests ol tho country at heart, and valued freedom, they wcro safe to follow Mr. • Massey'i lead. After all, it was enthusiasm thai diroctcd tho party into the right patli and kept Them in the . right path. , Nom tho party were in power they wonlc rnako an honc«t endeavour to put thi finances on a sound basis, to settle th< land, to mako ths people happy, content ami free, valuing their home lives, vain in" all that it was good for people.ti talus. A little more than enthusiasm wa: wanted, however; ttay needed also or pauisation of iß.divi<hi&ls into & coU6ctiv< mass; tho diffusion through the countr; of-right principles and tho organisatioi to put them into effect. "Valuo onthn siasni," to eaid in 'conclusion, "value 01 Ijanisation, value tho oountry yon live 11 and ty your, enthusiasm, by yonv 01 puiisation work for tho realisation of th ~ hopes of. all good peopl&-the happines /"s and tho contented life of tlw people her ' in Nov/ Zcild&&<' XAjjplauay