The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, October 12, 1915. THE CLEAR-CUT ISSUE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1458, 12 October 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, October 12, 1915. THE CLEAR-CUT ISSUE.

There is uo mistake whatever about the issue in this war, as every man and woman knows, whether they are British or German, Dutch, French or American, writes Tohuuga in the Auckland Herald. The issue is whether German methods, German “kultur,” German autocracy, are to rule the world or not; whether the Kaiser is to be world-master or not; whether the Prussian drill-master is to swagger over the continents and the islands, or is to be knocked on the head as soon as we can knock him. There are no side issues. It is the same in New Zealand as in Belgium, in Ireland as in France, in Servia as in South Alrica. The war is ours for the issue is straight-cut. Upon our answer depends whether we live henceforward as bondsmen to the German or as freemen ruling ourselves. . . . Our “evil” is the German’s “good;” our devils are his gods ; our liberties do not excite his admiration ; our ideals of humanity are to him only evidence that we are ripe to be looted, outraged, sacked, and enslaved. These Germans want peace only because the enslaving of us has proved unexpectedly costly. They will come at us again if we do not settle now whether the world is to be forever rid of German militarism or is to be its foot-stool.