MR KEIR HARDIE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 8

MR KEIR HARDIE.

JNTKRVIBWKI) f\ ACSTEAUA. ill- K-ir Hr. i AJ.I.’.. "as intornm*,f*,i on .151 I v;, I a) J*--rtli 'W. \.l. If. ,-a id he starlod „« hr* Urn;- o-i .Inly Il.ii wii'li th- ol.•(<■!. hi i.al.m" a.m.mph-!-i-.t, a., (.In. niti-riialivi. ot a •‘•'•'or.-I M.yioal opi ratio n. II- to visit all tho Stali-s mi'i South Africa, was afraid Mini h- will not 1... Imnli in London In tiim> for tho f.pr-i----irif' of Parliam-iii. Tfc woulil not ml-fir-.s,’. n public in-otin-. lmt would nn-cl. omny ri prisamtativn nmii, a.ud hour as rrllr.il an pnssihli*, Wil.il respect to India, hr s*.ir| hr would lilcf to state n ;r, on-fit i'll' nlintic manner tiiat there nOKi no .aii-ii i.lj'in- as sedition in Ttirit:i, tr ;■ 1J. 1 iI • 1 ;* ‘-.vrifi ‘ mount spyurimr. t ro.’i! I.li« lari I i.'h Crown. Thr npir.iifiot. aow for a perfectly le-kimate oh jrrl-- -roslnnnioii of llir .■••ph-re of self-iC<".--rn lup and njif-ni; ; In hip,her podl.ionn for 'July ijualihid Indian:,. ‘‘l ilon’!, rdvoi-ahe .siw,sion, nor does anybody in India., Iml. ,sf■ If-'rnvf-rn;i 1 r-,nt. is flir ulf.imile peal. f addressed no meotin.ps in 111 *fi a , hut spoke several lomo in ilho to students on HuraConnl suh-'cls. ; 171rI when pressed with 100 add ress I :iiC,o made brief remarks, hnl. refused to speak at a.nv puhhr no'ol.inrr.” ‘As i« or,11:111 tv,” sniil Mr Ilardif-, f say I hr* Indian is a.s pool as anyiarfly nl.sr, in his own isnintry, hut no opportunity h, pi,-,,, Indians to tost /hmr fitness for .cnernment, anil in Mm ahsnneo of (hat i( is ' most unfair t. a-wsiinif. they aro mini. Thr* natives an* il-rmf v-iy*llooiors. (hr eoHed-or h-Aiy (hr i-hi.-r ofl-ial in i hr. di.driet. a.lso fh- flintrif-f ,T,,i].ms they disehei—in- Mi., rfspo.i-.ihl.. ...nt with K -.*rf Con to a,II rr,lie(l riifwf, A lar K e sfrtion of tin* A iiplo-Indi * u press rrrntril rrrtain earie.-iture-s of the situation in riwiia. anil a.ssuininp T am a peraon of a, aorta in typo, tlmir sol,sorptoni- a- ri! I rips h ■*.■.. bom i■ 1 C-nded In holslor np that assumption 1-lt.boilt nil,. 1-oonrrl to th- real fa-ts. Tim coriflnr-t of P.nuter’s ao-ont in Calcutta in the. imports of nio was so very Iml that (Ik* Am/10-Tmlinn journals at Calcutta ■■■iron..l n protest. which was sont to Hu) pro-.-s at. Homo, wnmints tho British fin I'd io a-alnst t-ho st.atcinonis from him. Th- Lieutena.ntLoverim;- fif tho muted provinces, Sir TVinsil Ihbotsnn, lately i-siied an ofTi-i-ial letter. iloplorinn; tbo I a nro 1n —o aihjntod hy a section of thn AnploTmiian props toa-ards tho natives and tho native rnovp>nu‘rjt. ‘OoTitra! rop rp.sontn.t I to nt nalcuttn ffomo n oori’fx'tion r>r Roiitror’s stat-emont with rofpird to myfjolf.” oontimird tho visitor. '‘Tin? Governor of Ceylon is reported to havo been ‘not at homo’ to you.”— “T know notliiTiix of that: I "simply ralk*! and left my card, and as I wiihnsy I did not attempt anythinp

Deviating from tho unpleasant part i)f Indian politics, which wa-s obvioudv not an agreeable subject, Mr Hardio n'as asked tho trend of Labour politics in lintain. ‘‘The trend,” ho replied, '*\vaiS towards very rapid development.” "Tlio Spectator” was advocating that protectionists and freetraders compose dilforonws, and refer tho whole question to a commission that they might unrto and oppose tho growing power id tho Labour parties. Tho future attitude of the party would bo on© of strict independence. Tho party would support that section which brings forward progressive legislation, no mattor

from that quarter. Ho ould express no opinion about ■ho wisdom or the unwisdom of tho protective system for 'Australia or anywhere olso. I'roforontialism ho did not boMevo in. Immigration Mr Hardif> believes to bo purely a question of advertising. Advertisement atone was responsible for Canada’s tremendous Tho feeding at Homo, concluded Mr Hardio, is that Australia is a much more agreeable place to conic to than Canada, on account of the sinuate.