DISLOYALISTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 29 May 1919, Page 8

DISLOYALISTS

! CONDEMNED BY HON W. D S MACDONALD-

Strong condemnation of the action of disloyalists in the Dominion was expressed by the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture, in the course of his speech- at the dinner to the delegates to the Wellington Provincial Farmers' Union Conference on Tuesday night (the Dominion reports). "Soon there will be .a general election," said Mr Mac Donald. "I don't care whether a man is Labor, Liberal, or Reform—l don't care so long as he is a true, stout,-and. loyal Britisher. There has been an insidious attempt to secure power by certain seditionmongers in this country, men who never lifted a hand to help to win the war, men who didn't care twopence for this country, who did everything they possibly could to prevent the men of this country going to the front. I want to say that during the coming year, whenever the election takes place, that the disloyal man, the sedition-monger, the man with a biased brain, prejudiced mind, and poisoned tongue, and the disloyalist should have no hearing in this country." (Loud applause and cheers.) The flower of a whole generation of men had been poured into the furnace of war from all over the British Empire, as well as from New Zealand, and they did not want the work of those boys who. were sleeping their last sleep on foreign soil, those who had given a full measure of devotion for King," country, and liberty with their lives, to be deprecated by any sedition-monger who came from any other country. "If any man thinks another country better than his own," the Minister continued, "the sooner we see him off the coast the better — and you don't want to wish him 'Godspeed.' (Laughter and applause.) That is how I Feel."