WAR TALK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5

WAR TALK.

. AN APPEAL TO THE KAISEK. In a leading article about the Kaiser's fifty-third birthday, which was celebrated last month with the customary enthusiasm throughout tho Empire, "Die Post," the organ of tho German war party, ardently- urged his Majesty to end the Futliorlfwid's" enervating era of peace and to lead it "forward to new deeds and newgoals." After suggesting that only the diversion of a great war can arouse "the best powers of the nation" and subjugate tho "inferior fiualit'fs" which find expression in the Socialist election victories, the "Post" pointed out Hist Germans have never thriven while enjoying eventless peace. It asks: "Will the Government look longer unon this oerilous game? Will it keep on hiding from the JCiiispi's gazo the reM cause of- all evils? We hope devoutly thnt the Kaiser recognises tha need of the hour! The Gorman nation never yet refused ldyallv to follow if.? Kin?* and Emnerors, especially alon* the naths vj'nich lead to the heights. Even though four million misguided ritizens voted for a rartv which would dethrone tho Kaiser ai>d rij<lrov tho monarchy, the Wnel of the nation remains ■ true to the .SovereiTi. let liim lie in i>o doubt unon that -•cow? Let him know that tin , shadows will ttisipDo.ir as. surely a> tl>e fog before tl's pun the moment he colls unon his neople "or great political d».-\ls! That flint r-r hinnpii s-mn—Uiat is our wish on tho Kaiser's birthday!"