A PLEA FOR HOME DEFENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 166, 21 June 1909, Page 2

A PLEA FOR HOME DEFENCE.

By ■' W. 8." Te Kuiti

Until our education;-.! syllabus includes and insists upon a thorough knowledge of Natural Law, and we close our heads to cant nhraseurs, and those shallows argumentarians %vho derive their puny obvicw of Creation from an impossible code of miracular intervention, fable, dreams, and the mental circuniabulations of inconseqential creed theorists, whose wisdom is handed down from days when to suggest that our globe is anything but flat, and stationary, and other absurdities long since scientifically and crushingly refuted, wai punished with death: The humanist, the Peace-at-any-price coward, and the lover of soft angles, will be elements the pure sociologist must watch, if he would preserve the institutions the pride, and the prestige of his birth-race. For Nature, uncoiitaminated by the commercial benefit seek-

ing interference of man, permits m:ither coalition nor fusion ; and her effort is constant to keep them apart. But if by the interference of Zvlan (domestication) a certain fusion results, directly his interference ceases, either his artificially created species becomes extinct, or it returns to that primal state before devigation began. This shows that Nature's laws should take precedence where permanence of species is sought. Even that queer creature the poet admits this when he says "So long as every heart is human there will be yearnings, strivings . ." etc. So long also will it covet that which is his neighbour's: be it his land, bis wife.his sweetheart, in short, all that is bis. Concatenated also: So long as a fight until one succumbs, that the fittest may carry on the species, remains Nature's law, so long will it be prudent for the man with the goods, the handsome wife, and the desirable sweetheart,tokeepawell burnished eye upon possible covetors, that they stand at a subordinate distance, lest a premptory fist land them one on the olfactory bulb, to explain the "whaffor" in a swift and intelligent language. 1 In ilke manner we, the proud own- : ers of an Eden we have planted and tended: Do you think my fellow sinners, that there are no avid eyes canting a covetous list our way, waiting till We doze, or waste precious time listening to prohibition and other milleumium afflicted seers, that they will not select that individual fragment of eternity to collect for their own sinful uses all we have so carefully garnered, and both for intrinsic value and association hold so inexpressibly priceless? And when they are in possession, will that be the time to root out hair, an 1 grovel, and whine: "Stay thy hand, O heathen!" Or: "Lord have mercy on us miserable cowards!" Do you for one lonely moment imagine that the ravager will tarry to restore and apologise when this plea enters his ear:—"This woe has stricken us because we were unready,- and dilatory and sport-besotted, the while we listened to the suave alleviation maunderings of lease holders, and single taxers, and aneimated human brotherhood dissemblings, and ignorant of Nature's laws Peace Messiahs. And appeased our appetite for bombast with Dreadnought orgies, sham defence farago, and inefficient flag waving, and are miraculously swelled with incredible conceit! Whereas, instead, we should have enacted compulsory military training, that our youth learn straight shooting, obedience, and discipline; and gradually deflect their sport proclivities into drill, strategy, and how to comport them on the battlefield; and deem it a sacred privilege and crown of glory to fight for their own birthland, and if the fates decree, die in its defence ... I All this we have nelgected because sundry singularly flat-headed, self-appointed, moralists, preached that it is unnecessary, and un-British, and sinful; and irksomely damped our lust for football, the racecourse and its gambling machine. Therefore, graciosly. 0 invader: remit yourself to where you came from, and let us doze again!" But if he, as naturalljwrefuses to comply, and to repay our private and press insults of "nigger," and "mon-key-man," and "Dutch Dreadnought thief", and other vituperative epi--1 thets, and we stand impotent and 1 blanchfaced by: kisses our wives and sweethearts, and makes of our youth who should have repulsed him, scullions and m ml? to do his dirt\ v jr' ' cut our fdrm= anu «toc "V ai d m r rcnandi-e a ' r - uCt xu'U m *v u " t f-\ ta e j j rf C XJ V a 1 r r \ r L 11 r ~ I J j *. <! 4 - L I L - r f I- J Jo. C "I H I >- g 'J 7