POLITICAL MATTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1913, Page 6

POLITICAL MATTER.

(PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT.)

“THE RED TERROR.”

Is Grey Electorate to con>n>it Con?njercial Suicide?

(Article culled from “Voice of Labour Labour

Of course the velvet tongned Bennett himself would not dream of- attacking anyone; he prefers W ? preach a doctrine, which, falling on the minds of ignorant dupes, incites them to do the “slugging” ; and the same was true of Recluse, Most, Turner,’ and other Anarchists who preached their damnable doctrine in a “culchawed” accent.

At their meeting in the Opera House last Sunday evening, Semple raved against Professor Mills, the Unity proposals, the Labor Party, this paper,' and all those generally who refuse-to swallow the Anarchist doctrines of himself and his Anarchist friend Bennett. Semple’s “speech” from beginning to end was a torrent of vituperation an 1 a direct appeal io all the lowest and basest passions of his audience. “Let them send the military against us,” he shouted, “we will show them that we can do something in that line t<x>.’ Now, no one had ever suggested using the military and Semple’s language was only coldly calculated to arouse the brute i.i his audience, for Semple is not an excitable speaker who loses his head. Again referring to Mills, after insinuating that Mills was a “hireling of the capitalist class,” went on to remark that “we will deal with these, people mentally and physically” ; a direct incitement to Ids audience to use violence against all those connected with Mills, an injunction which the Revolutionaries proceeded to carry out as soon as they got out 'or. the road by surrounding two of the Unify Campaign special workers who had been distributing a wholly inoffensive leaflet containing a true report of the Bennett-Mills debate. Violently attacking these men, the Revolutionaries closed in around them like a pack of raving wolves, shouting “We will deal with that little b Mills, too, when we get hold of him. ’ Ihe two Unity workers were struck on the face and mouth, and there being no police about it was with difficulty, that they escaped with their lives. Individually the Anarchists are, as Anarchists always are. a set of cringing cowards, but, given a dark night or the confidence of numbers and fancied 'security from detection, and then blazes forth the same spirit of insanity that in 1798 dragged innocent and helpless women to the guillotine in the streets of Pans, arid that later boie aloft in..frenzied and ghoulish iriumph their dismembered bodies and entrails on the ends of pikes.

One of the special workers attacked is a member of the staff of this paper, and we deliberately charge Semple and his smooth-tongued colleague Bennett, together with the whole of the Anarchist outfit in New Zealand, the concern that calls itself the New Zealand Socialist Par tv, and that other bluffing , concern

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that calls itself the New Zealand Federation of Labor, with being responsible for this wanton outrage. On the street corners the most wild and inflammatory Anarchist garbage is ladled out Sunday after Sunday. The general strike sabotage, the destruction of machinery, is openly preached. “Don’t go out ou strike and lose your pay,” yelled an Anarchist the other Sunday; “stop on the job ami take a bit out of the machinery—take away Ihe essential parts and bury them !” In America or any other country a man preaching such infernal doctrines would quickly find himself in a place where he would get a chance of some quiet reflection. Nor are the Anarchist papers less violent in their advocacy. The local sheet advises the workers to take an example from the Chinese revolutionists and this is the advice of the crowd who are howling down military training. But lo and behold ! it came to pass that the Unity proposals were taken up enthusiastically by the Labor Party and the majority of the unions of New Zealand, while thousands of men and women were pledging themselves to devote time and money to further the proposals. At this the rage of the prophet and His people knew no bounds and the more the Unity proposals prosper the madder they are becoming. Left with no tangible argument against the Unity proposals except the usual arguments of the Anarchists against Parliamentary action and oitlered progress, they are now making a last desperate rally to stem the flowing tide of what they call “Accursed Lahorism,” by attacking Mills' character, by the most virulent and scandalous abuse of Mills, and by advocating and carrying on physical violence to those who are jpnsbing the Unity proposals.

Ignorant fanatics, who know’ no more of Socialism, or any other ism. than they know of common courtesy or civilised manners, get up on street corners a\jd. denounce the author of “The Struggle for Existence” as a “fakir,” “a humbug,” “a twister.” “a liar.” “an intellectual prostitute," and “a dirty hireling of the capitalist class” etc., etc., ad nansenm.

In nil this virulent scurrility and general madness Laborites generally will recognise the futile shrieks of baffled rage and defeat.

But lo! this man Mills that the Federation of Labor described in the above terms lias hired himself to the party that cursed him, and is preaching himself today doctrines that formerly he cursed. Electors of Grey, hear Michel and Jones to-night speak on ‘ls the Grey electorate to be placed in the grip of ihe monster?” —(By arrangement).