“PASSIVE RESISTERS”

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8559, 23 October 1913, Page 7

“PASSIVE RESISTERS”

LURID REPLY TO AX OFFICIAL LETTER. Special to the “Times.” CHRISTCHURCH, October 22. As showing the “stuff ” the Christchurch passive resistors are made of, the following letter was received this afternoon by tho officer commanding the Ist Canterbury Infantry Regiment, in reply to one of the ordinary formal postcards notifying a drill of tho regiment; “22/11/T3. “ Martin avenue, “ Eisherton, “ Christchurch. “To officer commanding ‘P ’ Company. “Sir, —Re your postcard to hand. .£ am returning it to you with the compliments of the Passive Resistors’ Union. I thought it was about time that you and the pack of dirty, lying cads who are doing their best to rob the community discovered that w© will not prostitute our conscience to you or that gang of vile hogs who do not possess the rudiments of the freedom of thought. X and tho Passive Registers’ Union will see you, and all lilthy liars and mongrels like yourself, in the lowest depths of hell before we ■will obey any order of a military skunk. We, the members of the Passive Resistors’ Union, challenge you to curry out the law by prosecuting us. If you fail to take up this challenge, wo will consider that you confess that you are a mongrel of the worst type, and that your cause is rotten. —Yours •against tyranny.” [Tho letter is signed by one whoso case was recently discussed in Parliament.]