Can anyone seriously maintain that that guilt was ours? Assume Germany ringed round with enemies. Was that ring forged in aggression or defence? In the light of the after German conduct, of hymns of hate, of the sickening iteration, "England is the enemy," "England planned the war," can we on the analogy of normal life draw no true deduction favorable to ourselves? Does not our almost fatuous inndcence cry to Heaven for recognition? In the days, of our unchallenged supremacy, what right was denied her, what pathway to her ships, what privileges to her trade or her subjects? Does no ont> remember when in the first decade of this century a very few truculent spirits of the extreme blue water school murmured in their clubs and at their dinner tables that Germany meant us ill—as, in fact, she did— and that we had best strike at her when we could break her, did any among us pay the very slightest attention to them ? There is more support for our cause in the significant impotence of those few truculents than, in reams of documentary evxdence, asserts Land and "Water. Who supposes that a war could have ever been made acceptable to us as a nation on grounds like these?
Fined a, penny and given a month in .v hich to pay it! In the Central Summons Court at Sydney last week a man named William 11. Wallace was proceeded against by the City Council's inspector on a charge of hawking in -'he city streets without a license. The Magistrate, on hearing the circumstances, thought tha case should be withdrawn, but the inspector thought the opposite. His Worship thereupon turned to the defendant and said, "You are fined one penny, in default, a minute's hard labor. I'll alJow you any reasonable time to pay" —a month, if you like. How long do you require?" Wallace: If your Worship pleases—a month. The Magistrate: Very well, you are allowed a month to pay. I must reduce it to an absurdity.
?>on't leave the lightness and digestibility of your scones a-nd cakes to .chance. Use SHAKLAM>'S Baking Powder—it is bound to rise.— Advb.
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 82, 6 April 1916, Page 2
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