“MASSEY-DOWNIA."
MR SSITT STIRS UP THE LABOURITES.
[From Our Correspondent.]
WELLINGTON, October 2
Discussing Mr Downie Stewart 1 s suggestion yesterday that the battle between the Reformers and the Liberals was largely fight, Mr Isitt declared in the House to-day that it might be a sham battle so far as Mr Stewart was concerned, because every time he spoke members on the Liberal side remarked, “ Why, he is more radical than half of ‘us. Why on earth does he not come over?” “What a mistake he made ” continued Mr Isrit, ‘ when ho listened to the cry from ‘Massey-Downia,’ 1 Come over and he*p us.’ (Laughter.) No more dangerous cry could be raised unless they were determined on sweeping the majority of the people into the arms of Extreme Labour. He had no single political idea in common with a number pf members on the Reform side, and if Extreme Labour succeeded in forcing the parties together with Extreme on the other side, it would be a bad thing for the country. Rather than see the country’s affairs in the hands of the Extreme Labour Party he would a dozen times prefer to leave them under the control of Mr Massey. Labour members chorussed: Of course -you would. You give the show away.
Mr Isitt, continuing, paid that this group, instead of helping the Empire in its fire years of trial, did evervtiung to panUyse the arm of defence and hinder blew Zealand in doing : ts duty to the Empire. They did notlung to assist voluntary enlistment ana dubbed conscription Prussianism They paid the fine of a man in Chris:church who personally declared to th* speaker that lie believed German rule wa - s f no worse than British. wa : ot a P enn y piece. It was the National Peace Council. Mr Isitt: M hat proportion of it consists of Extreme Labourites? You are all so interwoven with all sorts of conscientious objectors that it i's impossible to tell the difference. ihe speaker 8 criticisms provoked much interruption from the Labour group that they had to be calfe to
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 5
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