The following manifesto has been issued by the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers' Association over the signatures of the president and secretary, Messrs. A. ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsSir William Irvine, M.H.R., of Victoria, delivered a telling address in favor of conscription at Hurstville (N.S.W.) last Tuesday evening. These was much ...
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Advertising : 1,003 wordsThe following appeal, signed by the president (Mr. H.C. Swain) and the secretary (Mr. J.E. W. Wright) has been issued by the Rejected Volunteers' ...
Article : 372 words"Ransack history, it teaches the lesson that no nation can live unless it is prepared to fight."—(The Prime Minister, Mr. W.M. Hughes.) ...
Article : 40 words"I would be ashamed of Australia, may native land, if its refused to stand true to its noble boys at the front."—Father O'Donnell, at Stanley, Tasmania. ...
Article : 38 words"The are 27,000 members of the A.W.U. in the members, and if I did not vote to send them aid. I would be ashamed to look one of them in the face." ...
Article : 46 words"We have inst as much right to use force in sending men to fight for liberty as we have to use force in making them pay taxes."—Mr. H.C. Hovle. N.S.W. ...
Article : 45 words"The electors of Australia will constitute on the 28th a Grand Jury in the National Court of Honor. Will that jury vote to sentence to death our brave boys in ...
Article : 49 words"Some unionists object to conscription because it is force, but is not their refusal to work with a man unless he joins the union force."—Mr. H.C. Hoyle, ...
Article : 45 words"Australia is a wholly British community which owes everything it possesses to the protection of the Mother Country and I refuse to believe that she ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Commonwealth Opposition leader (Mr. Cook) writes: "I was particularly pleased to see the farmers' manifesto issued by the president and general ...
Article : 369 wordsThe first law of the navy is "The frontiers of Britain are the coasts of our foes." And it is there that our great sailors seek the [?] to destroy him. It ...
Article : 232 words"The suggestion that we should get the natives of India—whom we will not allow into our country—to risk their lives for our safety is surely the shabbiest ...
Article : 52 words"We have sent tens of thousands of men from the country districts to the front, and they are the best men there. Reinforcements are urgently needed and ...
Article : 96 wordsThe noes—the white feather and black lie party. It's our flag. Fight for it. Work for it. Vote for it. ...
Article : 142 wordsSenator Bakhap, who returned on Monday, after spending some months in the Malay Peninsula and other places in the East, said:— ...
Article : 200 words"Our White Australia policy, our freedom from invasion, our national existence, our liberty, and a;; that springs from it rest on the might of Great ...
Article : 54 words"If Australia decides to do nothing at the present time, the Allies will not pay anything at the moment; but when the time comes for dividing we shall hear of ...
Article : 74 words"To my mind, the issue is not so much conscription or anti-conscription as selfishness versus patriotism. I am a strong Labor man; for years I ran a ...
Article : 118 wordsThere are some questions upon which there is room for differences of opinion; but the referendum question is not one. of them Most of the men that vote ...
Article : 60 words"If Germany had attacked Australia with a position of her fleet, who would have objected to a proclamation calling upon every man of military age to ...
Article : 61 words"I am quite prepared to follow Mr. Hughes, fur he is in a better position than any of us to know the full seriousness of the present crisis. Even if taxes are ...
Article : 116 wordsThe farmer should vote "Yes" to he true to himself, to his own sterling character and regulation as a man of grit. The farmer, taking him as a class, is a steady determined pledder, ...
Article : 902 wordsIn politics and public affairs, as in his private business, the farmer is a practical man. He is no stone-age conservative, and no dank-haired communist—just ...
Article : 72 words"Australians, the battle for your liberties is now being fought in Europe; the [?]amparts of your native Land are the Allies' trenches in France. If the enemy ...
Article : 72 wordsDrain is the stuff that men and women think with. Nine-tenths of the brain of Australia is on the side of compulsion to assure adequate reinforcements. If we ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia, recognising that the present war in Europe is fraught with momentous consequences to the future welfare ...
Article : 416 words"I have sent four sons into the fighting line, and if I had twenty sons I would sacrifice them all if necessary, because I consider that it is their bounden ...
Article : 50 words"It is not a matter that calls fore arguments or cloquence. It is just a matter of plain national duty or shameful nationa; repu[?]. If the opponents of ...
Article : 75 words"Though I hate compulsion I am prepared to vote for it because in this grave issue we must throw sentiment aside. Although Australia cannot afford to lose ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is a mistake to say that the antis have only one argument. They have two, but confusion has arisen because of the fact that both arguments are called ...
Article : 163 words"If the demands of the no-conscriptionists mean anything at all, they mean that the Australian soldiers in France can either remain without reinforcements ...
Article : 263 words"I have three sons' at the front, and have enlisted myself. I am going into camp on November 1. One of my brothers and five of my nephews have been ...
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Advertising : 141 wordsMr. J.B. Ewens, Cathcan, Mandura[?]a, writes to Uncle Wiseman, thanking him for assistance in learning the particulars of his son's wounds, and then ...
Article : 109 words"To our Australian soldiers, engaged in a desperate his and death struggle, reinforcements mean [?] and salvation The lack of reinforcements means ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Tue 24 Oct 1916, Page 2
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