"THE ENEMIES IN OUR MIDST."

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2741, 8 April 1916, Page 3

"THE ENEMIES IN OUR MIDST."

Sir,—By publishing the letters of 1 P. T. Moore anct W. Forbes in this 1 morning's issue of your excellent journal 1 —good, sound, and serious warnings to the public—you are' greatly assisting ' the. very urgent need of awakening the apathetical, ignorant, selfish, and 1 ut- ' terly indifferent, great majority of the general public of this Dominion, to \i>he ■ real state of our desperate case, to the danger threatening the Empire; hence ; you are a public benefactor. But are '' serious Earnings of any practical -use ; to-a people who. are stupid enough' to ' refuse to step out- of their "Fools' Para- / dise" and face the danger bravely, and '.! do their best to stop,' or check, it? 1 Unpatriotic shirkers who, facing ■ the'. 1 ealni South,. refuse to* notice . the ter- .■ Til)le storm approaching from the North, ' who, selfishly and foolishly,' continue .to enjoy their low-class amusements and ' "wastetimes," such as the gambling business of -horso racing, and various other forms of gambling, drunkenness, football, etc., etc., etc., and argue that they would be just as well oil under the Gorman flag as under the .Union Jack. This, is the expressed' opinion of the cowardly Socialist—the conscientious 'objector—to serve his country in her danger and trouble. These enemies in . our midst'may be seen in their tens of thousands at every tinpot race meeting, football ground, ond in' every low-clas.s public house. Other enemies in our midst aire those, importers find retailers who deal ;in our enemies' goods—because they can procure a little more, profit by them than by the British nrticle. , I call this class unpatriotic traitors, while those who purchase such goods are .just as bad.. How many warehouses or shops are there in the 'Australasian Dominions which do not carry in some form stocks of enemymade c;o6ds; and the war has not stopped • their importation. Their. goods, are still pouring into these Dominions —by sneaking means—as before the war started. All those who have had wide experience in business must disagree with your corresnondent, F. T. Moore's, remark that "It is absurd to talk of tariff walls and' isolation," but must asrree with his other assertion: "The vile doings of these evil people by air, sea, and land must-.be curbed for ever,, and the,_only way to effectively do so is to deprive them for all: time of the means to accomplish such dreadful deeds." Just so, and nothing will do this so thoroughly as to shut out their goods frcm pur Empire, to shut out their ships from our .ports, and to refuse their countrymen admittance to anv part of the British Empire. Anything short of this mil simply mean a repetition of this terrible war, when with the millions procured by the unpatriotic British trade—as heretofore—and sufficient time to Teenperate, Germany will again—if under) present ;form of government—plunge Europe into a terrible war. —I am. etc., ONE "WHO BUS-DONE HIS BIT.