THE LATEST MASSEY STUNT.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1920, Page 22

THE LATEST MASSEY STUNT.

AVo extract the following from The i)i<j</rr, the bright little official organ of the Invercargill Upturned Soldiers’ Association: _ Zealand is last becoming a land of general inhibition. One can hardly wag the head now without splintering a statute. The latest “Thou Shalt Not” is a grandmotherly Order-in-Council excluding Sinn Fein literature and de Valera’s portrait. The logic of or need for such a measure is not very clear. Surely the loyalty which sent so many thousands of our sons to Gallipoli, Flanders, and elsewhere is not so fragile as to be fractured by a photograph—which, by the way, has already appeared in some of our illustrated papers without any particularly catastrophic consequences. As for Sinn Fein literature; well, it is always wise to hear what the other fellow has to say. If it is right we should be open to conviction; if wrong, then we will learn better from it what we are up against, and our collective common sense may be surely trusted to oppose it. It is said the predominant color of our present Government is a bright yellow; but, be that as it may, they seem to see red in everything Irish just now.”