SOLDIERING AND SOCIALISM,

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 7

SOLDIERING AND SOCIALISM,

A STATEMENT. Mr. 'William Cornish, of Brooklyn, father of the youth, William Cornish, who was recently lined 40s. and 10s. costs by llr. Riddell, S.M., for failing to register under the Defence Act, called at The Dominion office last evening to say that his sou had been arrested and would have to serve twenty-one days in gaol. Mr. Cornish complained that his counsel in the case, Mr. P. J. O'Regan, had not been allowed to address the Court or state the conscientious objections which father and oon both held against "conscription." Secretary of tho Brooklyn branch of the Anti-Conscription League, and a "wholehog" Socialist, Mr. Cornish said his objections to the military law were thorough and A soldier was taught the wrong principles of citizenship, ho was a machine, nnd he was instructed how to shoot men down, even—it may be—strikers. This was against tho Divine precept: "Thou shalfc not kill." His son, no said, was a bookbinder's apprentice. He was only one out of 13,000 who had not yet registered. A league had been formed among tho youth of Brooklyn, who were prepared to all go to gaol rather than comply with the law. There were similar leagues in other parts of tho city, including Newtown. His son's own workmates had collected tho fine of 10s. amongst them, but the lad had refused to allow it to he paid, and had gone to gaol for his principles.

Three JEtOO bank notes have heen received anonymously by the Additional Curates' Society, It Great Smith Street, Westminster