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Grey River Argus, 16 December 1920, Page 4

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

. -^^ Pollard's Pictures. Peerless Pictures. Fogarty and Williams. Special Holiday Prices. I Ashby Bergh and Co. Christmas pre- • sents. •T. H. Glasson. Sports suits.' McGruer and Co. Christmas Carnival at McGruer 's. S.S. Packing Co. Your Christmas Dinner. Canterbury Education Board. - Applications for teachers. N.Z. Trotting Stud Book. Now Published. 'West-port Trotting Club. Nomina- ~ lions first day close to-night. Granity Grand Operetta. ''The Midshipmite ' ' Programme. Runanga Peerless Pictures. Friday. Mark Sprot and Co. Stock sale Central Yards, Saturday. Hokitika Labour Party. Grand Bali December 27th. Public Service Commissioner. Applications. Reid and Gray, Dunedin. Agents wanted for "Rex" and "Too.-" Cream Separator. Shop Assistants' Union Meeting. Westland Racing Club acceptances, close on 17th inst. the function of Liberalism, not merely to condemn Amritsars after the event, I but to prevent them from happening. Yet in Ireland we see the Government staggering blindly towards an AmritI sar inevitable; without the passionate and ineesasnt protest we should expect from the statesmen of Liberalism. Sees Peril to Follow. Our statesmen seem to forget that the Irish question is in a very real sense an English question; that the ruin of liberty in Ireland means the ruin of liberty in England; and that in the chaos that must ensue, the British Empire itself may perish. Statesmen continually take it for granted i that the liberation of Ireland spells the end of the Enrpirc. We say advisedly that the bloody, coercion of Ireland. — and no other sort of coercion 1 will avail to-day — spells the end of ' the Empire. We may crush the Irish : but wo cannot do so without a rcvo- I lution in this country, Avithout lighting t lircs of hatred, in , Australia and ( America and in the heart of our very \ army and navy, and without awaken- > ing terrible echoes' in India." English j oppression in Ireland tvill faring in its' i train a still more disastrous punish- j ment than did Spanish repression in I Cuba. It wil lbo a greater peril to out national existence than a wilccr--ncss of Irish Republics, Shakespeare 3 s and Nelson's England can survive any danger, save the death of freedom not only at our doors but at our hands. That is Liberal' faith. It is for Lib- ( oral statesmen to save our country and < our commonwealth by proclaiming it j fearlessly and unfalteringly to-day. •,