CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
DISFRANCHISEMENT JUSTIFIED. (By Telegraph.—Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Speaking at Victoria University College. at the invitation of the Students’ Debating Society, Mr J. A. Young, M.Pfor Hamilton, on the subject of the “Disfranchisement of Conscientious ''*<( Objectors”’ affirmed that law and order between nations no less than within the nation, was based essentially upon force. When an individual violated the law he exceeded the proper bounds of personal liberty and forfeited the rights of a citizen. The “internationalism” of the objectors might be excellent as a pious intention, but as a practical idea it was nonsense. We could not avoid the fact that human nature is mostly selfish. The basic principle of the motion, Mr Young 'continued, was recognition of the fact that if men are to enjoy the rights and privileges belonging to citizens of the State, they must share equally the sacrifices entailed ifi upholding that institution.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15274, 26 June 1923, Page 5
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