SEDITION, &c.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6828, 5 October 1883, Page 6

SEDITION, &c.

TO THK EDITOR. Sib,— Permit a few additional words, and because needful. There must always be a moat important and v:ital distinction between common freedom of speech, and that which is closely linked with, aiid supports open dis« loyalty to the Government of the day. I would bo one of the very last to oppose full a K T om speech within due bounds, and Auckland herself would to-day have held a stronger position in politics, if more of such had been exercised, especially of that kind which is outspoken arid bßld. But the qnestion now in hand is not freedom of speech, but that of sound loyalty to the British Government. The Irish Land League, in all its associations, thus far has proved itself to be a movement which no truly loyal subject of the Crown can support. Dastardly doings have been indirectly sheeted home to it; and to have any share in its proceedings, is regarded by most per>onß as similar to playing with fire, or with gunpowder. It has already proved itself in its outcomes to be but a mild.form of treason, while its inner circle (entirely out (if sight), ia without » shadow of a doubt largely composed of Fenianism itself. Thereforo, Mr. Editor, I submit that the matter in hand is neither Mr. Redmond nor due freedom of speech, but 1S of general loyalty to the soundest and most beneficent of Governments at present found on the face of the earth.—l aiu, &c., Citizen'.