NOTE OF THE DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 22 July 1915, Page 4

NOTE OF THE DAY.

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■‘II Ihi' I : iiiti d Statvs goes to war/’ Gays Mr Maurice. Low in {.lie “Morning Post,” “the world may be told that the United fitates goes to war in protection of its rights, hut that will he to satisfy the scruples of statesmen, lawyers, and historians. “The real cause of war will he the quickening of conscience, the moral revolt against German methods that are repugnant to an enlightened civilisation. The American people are stirred to their depths by the nruh'.lily with which Germany lias earned on war from the first day when it outraged honor by violating the neutrality of Luxemburg, day after day piling horror on horror as it ravished Belgium arid desolated Franco, to culminate in that tragedy off the Irish coast.

“Germany in her desperation would Gee the ■Cross submerged by the Crescent. religion made an engine of slaughter, and fanaticism aroused by the preayhing of a jehad. The Moslem world lias heard the holy war proclaimed and has remained unmoved, hut hero in America a holy war is being preached that has struck down to the heart of Americans. “Ii they go to war it will be to defend morality against barbarism, in tln i same spirit that animated the Crusaders. No American will have to ask why he is lighting. Every American will know. A nation that is thrilled with that zeal, that fights for an ideal and not for gain, makes a. foe that must be victorious, as ■Germany will find should she be so reckless as to challenge the conflict.