Ben Tillett and the Mayor of Melbourne.
A SMABT OAfIn&AMON. The Mayor of MeHxMri* has received a smart M dreesteg down M from Mr Bon Titlett. HiT Wonhip, in deciding to preside at on* of Mr Tillett's lectures, said he had no sympathy with the lecturer's views, and added that Mr Tillettfa att«Maoa» and aotioni in Australia mad* it in* pottible for him to aoo«d« to the mqa«et A night or two later Mr TUlett addneaed ameetiagaad oharrtd the Mayor with havwg acted " below the dignity of his offioe and below hie relationship to me as a fellow Britiaher and a fellow moairipal reformer." " You Me," Mr Tfflett west' on to aar t ' I don't happen to be a jbong lady vi a (hdetj oompany, or a erjoketer, and I do not happen to belong to Us tribe, bat I hate served six years as aa alderman in the greatest of our eitiea. (Oheew). I hare had that dignity conferred npon me whea tkirty earn and dukes of the Old Oonntry were at the bottom of the list. (Loud cfaeen.) I consider myself in brains nan tha* the equal of your Mayor—(cheers)— in manners much hissuperior---(eheer») —and from the standpoint »f position in the eyes of the world a greater man. (Loud cheers). Therefore, I oan for. give a smaller man—(tiheers)—mixed up in. his parochial Bumbledom, (Oneere and laughter.)
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9113, 6 July 1898, Page 2
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229Ben Tillett and the Mayor of Melbourne. Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9113, 6 July 1898, Page 2
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