BIFFED FOR BEING LOYAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 131, 21 December 1907, Page 6

BIFFED FOR BEING LOYAL.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir,— (Myself and three friends were passing "His Majesty's" Theatre the other nig'lit, and seeing the place open we went upstairs to see what was on. We were just m time to hear the finish oi an address on Socialism, and the speaker finished hy asking the audience to sing the "Marseillaise," whioh they started. My friends and I being "Englishmen," sang with great lust, "God Save the King," and we only got through when we were rushed by some half-dozen aliens and thrown down the stairs. Now, sir, are we m a foreign country here, when we get such treatment. It appears to be so. My friends are only lately from England, and I assure you, sir, the shock to them has been great,- to,get thrown out for singing to our "Kjing." I may state the hall was packed, were they all "French?" —I am, etc., 'J.R.M. (You see it's this way, "J.R.M." If you shake a red rag at a hull and ain't prepared to side-step, you .must expect a bump m- the belly. Your ideia of a free country bias a^bit of a list to port. You want freedom to go into a hall and disturb! a meeting and police protection when the meeting objects and kicks you out. Anyhow, -what were four Englishmen doing that six aliens could throw them downstairs ? Doesn't seem to bear out that old story about one Englishman being equal to three Frenchies.- And why sing, "God Save ?" . The words are ridiculous and the music rotten, and it don't save the King worth a black currant. Next time you want to spoil good music do so with a kerosene tin and a stone and be pre-' pared to hit back when the row starts— Ed.) j