MR SEMPLE’S USES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 4

MR SEMPLE’S USES.

Christchurch Press thus refers to Mr .Semple’s recent outbreak: Most people in New Zealand—even those who realise how easily people in other countries may lie misled by gross fictions concerning these islands and the Government—will merely shrug their shoulders when they hear that Mr Semple has been saying in Sydney that, in its treatment of the “work-

ers.” Hi© Massey Government was “worse than Botha n South Africa.'’ In a speech reported in the “Barrier Daily Truth,” Mr Semple said that “immediately they (the Wellington watersidors) took action ,the Government issued a warning to farmers, took the hooligans and criminals from gaol, and gave them the badges of special constables. Clubs aud revolvers were issued to them. lueuty thousand of these creatures wore sent against the workers.” Everybody, will reflect, of course, that a cause j which produces men who must talk like that, must, iu the nature of j tilings, be hopelessly bad. But before dismissing -Mr Semple 1 from their thoughts, we would have the public reflect upon this tact—that the extreme language used by Mr Semple is the measure of the liberty which the Government, by its coolness, courage, and thoroughness, has secured for the community. So that Mr Semple has his uses, after all.