CONSCRIPTION.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 13

CONSCRIPTION.

Sir, —I am pleased to see in your leading articles of the • last : few days thai you are trying, though in a very mild way, to bring before- our halfhearted Government tho clamouring- demand of the people to be allowed to participate in the- war, which is_ more vital to us than any other portion .of tho Empire. Our young men aro discouraged by the slow mode of selection from the volunteers for the front. Success is vital t-o us. Let us give tlio Empire a'lead and rnalce the great sacYes, conscription, and with all it means, but only for the war, and then back t« the Territorial system. God in , his High Heaven has stayed his hand, so that we might- have time. Will the leaven work, or is the Empire doomed through its selfishness? If so, let it go, unlionoured and uusuhg, to oblivion . Will not tlio dead - on the Gallipoli beach cry out to us in the days .to come: Yon should have come to our aid in thousands; you sent hundreds: you deserted us, and w? have died in vain! No, a thousand times, no. We havo lived, and, if need bo, let us die liko men. Let us re-echo the old Jewish cry: To your teijts 0 Israel!-—1 am, eto., W. Q. CAREUTHERS. Hunterville.