The Strike and the Premier

Southland Times, Issue 12120, 28 April 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Strike and the Premier

(From the Dominion.) " ”Tls Clare, Jawn,” said Mr Dooley, “ that me frind Joe Warrd is Hi' only wan iv us that has kep’ liis head in this sad tUrouble that th' AttoraeyGlnral proved not t’ exist at Blackball or annywhero but in th' disordhered brain iv an’ Ac' iv Pnrlymlnt.” " Has he gaoled th’ sthrikers ?” asked Mr Hennessy. “ Xo ; Init be the pure forree iv onadultherated logic he has proved that he will not do what he don’t Intend t’ do, an’ that what is may tie or that otherwise it is diff’rent. tie lit’ case may bo. • What,’ ho says at Kaitangata. Ms th’ position ?’ says he. ‘T' th’ charrgo that th’ sthrikers ar-rc on sthrike, X wud reply that th’ Guv'mlnt will not interfare, does not Interfare, an’ lias not Interfered,’ says he, ‘ with a anyth In’,’ says lie. ‘Why don't ye do somettiing ?' says a voice. ’Why ? I'll tell ye why.’ he says, ' th’ Ac' must ho upheld. It must not lie dbraggod into contemn*, an' th’ t.’oourt is I he rayspicted,' says tie, ‘ whin I so command. Hut this is beside th’ ciuistion. Ar-re wo I' raysolve t’ do witiiout th’ Ac, or I' have it ? I onhesitatiugly say we can't do both,’ says lie. 1 but th Attorrney-Ginral lias charrge iv tli Puzzle Department. Th' sooner, if wo have no Ac’, th’ sooner we say we have no Ac’ an’ give up pretendin' that it is not so, or otherwise, an’ th’ sooner th’ people vaysolvcs. th’ sooner they will come t’ a decision,’ he says. ‘ Now. as t’ tli’ sthrike. TIT law nuts’ be upheld, but if th’ sthrikers sthrike, they disobey th' law, an’ in that case th’ only position X can lake up is that th’ sun-plus is wan million. lam not - a land nationaliser, but I only nationalise lan’, an’ th’ Attorrney-Ginral says that lan is not nationalised when it is, or ought t' he, an' if not, thin why ?' lie says.” ’’But did he say what he’d do I’ th’ sthrikers V" asked Mr Hennessy. •• Xo, .lawn. He’s like tli' I’riucli grammar. Did you see my uncle’s gardener's sharin' strop ? No ; but I have my brother's coachman’s falsi- teeth. That’s th’ way me frind Joe settles th’ sthrike. A calm, slhruig man is .100, with a gr-rcat power iv detachment. ‘Sthrike,’ lie says. 'Sthrike? What .sthrike? Isn't it th’ all-red rout va want t’ know about ?’ ”