War.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1915, Page 2

War.

(From The Bulletin.) For curates now to lift up uu'ir voices and say in excuse of themselves that the world will be a better place on account of the war is just a frantic exhibition of imbecility. War is t'ne most damnable of all scourges. Tt means the piling up of woe and suffering beyond human computation. It turns the earth into plain Hell—roto it of all those things vi can least afford to yield, and leaves it a vast heritage' of wretchedness. Any labourer in the vineyard who tried this yarn on a Bel gian, for instance, would be a quai-it sort of ass. When the war is over the world is going to he very cold and wretched—a place of mourning. It is because war is an evfl thing which pro duces such results that this hi git esc patriotism rests in protecti'ig women and children from its merciless tragedy. That ie the lesson taught Ly evny i attle that has been waged since tho world began—the" lesson + ha.; Nature teaches in all her aspects. It is the irrefutable principle on which rests the Commonwealth's eystem of military training. The people ot this country do not seek war. They would do wr.ch to avert it. But they eee—thrig.'i thoj saw but dimly until the shocking rape of Belgium sharpened their vision— that preparedness for resistance is the only protection they can have against conquest and worse. To tell them v that war looks good to the Almighty, and that through war the world shall be made more joyful, sounds suspiciously like the kind of stuff turned out from theh headquarters of kultur.