LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

"DON'T HUMILIATE CERMANY."

Sir, Please allo.v me through your columns to thank you for your able leading article in your issue of March 30, under the heading "Distorted Ideas of Justice." Every word of it should carry sense and _ reason to overy thinking patriotic Britisher who reads it. There is 110 sickening sentimentality about it, such as Dr. Lyttclton's "Don't Humiliate Germany." A ruthless, treacherous, perjured nation such as Germany deserves 110 mercy, lleparar tion to the uttermost farthing should be exacted from her. And her power to disturb tho peace of the world crushed for ever.

When Shakespeare wrote tho following his prophetic toul must have meant the Kaiser:—

"And many an old man's sigh, and many a widow's, And many ail orphan's water-standing ayeMen for their sons', wives for their husbands' fate, And orphans for their parents' timeless death, Shall rue the hour that ever thou waat born. The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign; The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees 1 The raven rook'd her on the chimney's

' t°P> And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope: To wit, all indigested . and' deformed lump. Not like to fruit of such a goodly tree. Teeth had'6t thou in thy head when thou was't born. To signify thou cam'st to bite the world."

I trust our present Government will put such a prohibitive tariff on all goods manufactured in Germany that not a single article from there shall ever be ahlo to enter the Dominion.

0110 word in connection with the war tax. In a letter I have received, from British Columbia, my brother tells me the Government there proposes to have a war stamp printed wliicii everyone has to use 011 a letter or paper,_ besides the ordinary stamp. Failing this, letters or papers are sent to the Dead Letter Office. The cost of the stamp would be in accordance with t'he ordinary postage. I would say this is a first-rato idea; it's not. a great amount, and gets at nearly everyone. —I am, etc., W.D.B.M. Palmerston North.