ADVICE TO THE "REDS."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15081, 2 December 1919, Page 3

ADVICE TO THE "REDS."

During the war, said Mrlsitt in his Christolwrch speech, theT.^ had been financial shirkers buit there had also been shirkers from personal service. (Hear'! hear !) While they must right tho economic laws — and the opportunity now offered — it must be done constitutionally. This was one of the freest countries in the worl^J. Voices: No! It was! We're under the War Regulations now ! •Mr Isitt: Tell m<j three freer countries? A voice : Russia ! (Loud laughter.) Mr Isitt : Ah ! #JW, mark that, you sane people! You see now what "lies behind this extreme Labor business. And remember- that the man who is standing for Labor in this constituency is not a free man. He is pledged to support Holland^ Seminle and Co.! This is the freest country in. tho world. Voices : No ! Mr Isitt :. Tell me three freer. A voice: Australia! Mr Isitt : We have universal suffrage ! Voices: No! We didn't all. have a vote on conscription. Mr Isitt : You have got government by majority; and the masses have from hve to seven votes to the classes' three. Now, wriggle round that if you can ! I'll tell you where you aren't free. YouJ haven't' got freedom to skulk while' another man fights for your wife and chil- j dren ! (Applause.) 'You haven't freedom to enjoy all the privileges of British citizenship, then to talk ■ sedition against your own country and to vilify it! If you want freedom of thati kind, then in God's name get out of the country ! * (Applause.) A voice : That's the stuff to give 'em ! Mr Isitt : And, you men, I don't want your votes. , A chorus : You won't get them ! Mr Isitt: The man who will vilify his own country . . . the man who can find excuse after excuse for everything the enemy did. with only blame after blame for everything that his own people did— that man is a man I. don't want the support or the approval of for one moment. (Hear! Hear!) If men Hying in a country like this, that everybody ought to be proud of, talk about not being in a free country, ihe best thing they can do is to get out of that country.