The Evil of War.
The late Lord Bussell, Lord Chief Justice of England, writing as far back as 1875 on the evil results following war as follows: — It has taken steady, sober civilians from the plough, the factory, and the workshop. It has accustomed them to a desultory life, and given them notions of dignity, and importance as injurious as they are fictitious, destroying their morality, making vice delightful, and virtue contemptible in their eyes. It has impeded their minds with a dislike, and utterly incapacitated them for the sustained labour of ordinary life. It has cast them back upon their country shipwrecked for life. It is this which not only vitiates a country at the close of every war, but predisposes it for another, like creating thirst for now bloodshed, nsw adventures and future glory."
WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS A pleaiant tonic beveraga,
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Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1902, Page 3
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142The Evil of War. Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1902, Page 3
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