A MOTHER’S SCORN OF PEACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1917, Page 4

A MOTHER’S SCORN OF PEACE.

New War If We Gave Way Now. Paris, Jan 4 M, Gustave Herve in La Victoire 1 prints the following letter written him by the wife of a working man —perhaps a country labourer— December 23, 1916. Sr,—l don’t know if I shall dare senu you this letter, but if you do get is please read it, though you don’t know me. It’s about your articles on this peace. But, of course, sir, we musn’t make peace. You sey that if the working men that are at the front or the women that are left behind were to be asked they’d be quite pleased at it. That shows that you’re writing for people that haven’t got any children. Sir, I lost a brother of twenty-five and my husband was called up at the beginning of the war, and he's at the front, where the fighting is; and since he’s been gone we’re not often able to keep very warm, and we’ve not always got enough to eat when we’re hungry. But, sir, we don't want peaoe, though it would mean that we should have more money again ; we’ve got children and though we’re only working people we don’t want them to have to fight in ten or fifteen years; and that’s what would bs sure to happen. And there’s my husband, and he’s had enough of this war, but he’ll go oa|fighting as long as we’ve got to, so as to give those Germans a good thrashing and make them have the k : nd of peace that we won't have to worry about the children. And it isn’t only my husband that fee’s like that, sir, he says all the others, are just the same. Of course there’s grumbling pometimes, and people aren’t quite satisfied with things, but sir, you mustn't think that we want peace because of that; indeed we don’t. When we saw in the papers that they were talking about peaoa my next-door neighbour, who has three children, she said to me, “Those dirty Huns, they are trying to have ue.” And after that we didn’t so mnch as mention it again, we thought it was so stupid. And then there come people who have got education who seem to be taking it seriously. Sir, they haven’t got any children or else they don’t love them, because they would sooner their children had to fight than them. Sir, you needn’t worty, the soldiers who’ve got children, and the women who are left behind and who are working to take the father’s place, they’ll hold out as long as is wanted, a year more or even two, so that the little children won’t have to see this sort of thing later on. 1 am, dear sir, yours very respeotfully, . Mrs H M. Herve added: Here we are, a lot of politiciansi and writing is our business; we are trying to find answers to the bleat of the pacifists. We are combating tho American Note. We go over the guarantees we shall have to demand. This working woman has found tha proper answer, the sensible answer, the answer that comes straight from the heart. . . Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G. etc,, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of Victoria, when delivering judgment in a case in which an inferior substitute had been pushed as “ just aa good ” as SANDER’S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, said:—“ Whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality it is not permissible to imitate any of its features,” and he prohibited the offend'ng party from further substitution. When using a medicine it is “ good quality ” that you want, and SANDER’S EXTRACT has the endorsement and approval of the highest authorities. In. haled, applied locally, taken on sugar or in water as directed, SANDER’S EXTRACT is equally beneficial, because it is specially refined and pre pared by Sander’s process and contains no harmful by-products. Use SANDER’S EXTRACT only when you desire good and lasting effects; no “ just as good."