COUNT MORNER’S WARNINGS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2734, 12 February 1910, Page 5

COUNT MORNER’S WARNINGS

APPROVED BY SYDNEY LABOItITES.

United Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, Eeb. 11. Count Morner states that the extract from Mr Holman’s speech was sent as a supplement to a previous report, in which he stated that the Australian Governments had no responsibility whatever in the propaganda made by an irresponsible Immigration League of Australia, that there were different opinions prevailing in Australia relating to the immigration question, and that a prominent political party was opposed to the movement. He claims that he only acted fairly in giving the opinion of the minority. Referring to press criticism, he said it would have been fairer to have waited until they were in possession of the exact text of the warning he was supposed to have given. He did not mind being criticised for what he had done or stated, but he objected to being criticised for what ho had net done. At present he knew as little about the matter as bis crit:cs did. It would have been more dignified for the Australian press if it bad ■produced a csrpus delicti before trying to make him responsible for the foreign policy of the two oldest and most educated kingdoms of the world. At a Trades Hall meeting, a resolution was carried, expressing strong approval of Count Morner’s warning to Swedish emigrants, and protesting against the Minister of Customs' statement that there was employment for thousands, when thousands of tlieir own citizens were unable to find work.