KILL IT NOW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 45, 18 November 1918, Page 3

KILL IT NOW

MR-..GOMPEHS ON MILITARISM. Mr. Gompers, spe.iking at the American Luncheon Club in London in Septejnber, said it had been justly said thai no ouxht not to continue the war one minute longer than necessary, that we ought not to sacrifice any human life more than was e-sser.tial to obtain peace. But tho war must not be ended prematurely Diily to bring on the world 6ome other bloody holocaust. * "Wo in America," he goes on, "will contribute all our man-power and all tho wealth that we can and' make every sacrifice in order that the fight may be carried to a triumphant ending. (Cheers.) I have appealed to my fellow-workers of Great Britain to do their job here. They have done wonderfully; but this is a time that tries men's souls. The men ot Hie front are willing to make tho supreme e-aerifice, and it is out boumlen duty to them to make the greatest physical sacrifice possible thi.t this war sfiall not be lost or endangered. "This is tho time for service, for grit to do and to dare. They will not take me in the Army or the Navy, but they do want men who can organise. I have' been told that I am not bereft of Ihat quality, ami no one las ever yet told me that lam a damn fool. So lam Riving whatever there .is in me to help to organise for my fellow-countrymen and for the Allies: "The spark of liberty has been fanned into a flume, and, 1 fervently believe, will remain ir. the hearts of Englishmen and Americans and Frenchmen so that they will take up the battle-cry and \rin freedom for all, 1 would rather make tho flght noT a decisive fight, ond kill imperialism and autocracy and militarism w ;th this one fell , blow that wo aro delivering." (Cheers.)