"POISONOUS HARANGUES"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1913, Page 3

"POISONOUS HARANGUES"

PEACEFUL .COASTERS TIRED OF THEM INTEND TO OPEN PORTS. . Writing editorially the Grey River Argus strongly condemns the " wild talk and screaming sedition" of Federation orators in Greymouth. "If the police on the beat, or the reporters on the 'press took a few notes occasionally of the illegal and poisonous harangues that aro so frequently indulged in by uncontrollable hoodlums from the neighbourhood of the State mine, it would be easy to find material enough to keep the Court busy for Borne time. . . The ' storm centre of Runanga would soon be wailing over the absence of some of their loudmouthed talking machines. For there is enough sedition and incitement to violence sometimes talked in one ovoning to' oondemn the spouttr* to prison

for a goodly term to do a little hard labour for the Crown, which th&y detest and inveigh against at every possible opportunity." State mine employees have no grievances, but they want to show their sympathy with a mere handful of men elsewhere, who are really as destitute of a grievance as they themselves. . . "The industrial and peaceful nuss of the community have so far put up with all the intolerable conduct of the foolish followers of Semple *and Co. But there are indications that all this nonsense and tyranny are going to come to an end.' The policy of the big stick and the terrors preached from the soapbox is played out for ever. The people of Greymooth and Westport who are not coal miners nor dependent entirely upon the coal trade, intend to open those ports and preserve their means of living, despite all that the red-raggers can do or are likely to attempt. The whole wretched business is so much nonsensical child's play, and only calls for a little stern determination to completely extinguish the movement to set up a Government within a recognised and properly constituted Government."