PEACE IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1598, 15 August 1916, Page 4

PEACE IN AMERICA.

By Walt Mason)

The boon of peace is slick as grease, and we should guard and prize it, and love it well, for war is hell —no delegate denies it. On Europe’s strand, where peace is canned, and all the kings are scrappy, the people kjtow the depths of woe, and not a sotjl is happy. But here, where peace fulfills it lease, with industry its neighbour, remote from fear we walk and hear the sounds of honest labour. The mill wheels lump the plumbers plum, the farmers go a-seeding, an. 4 you can walk a city block and see no fellow bleeding. The spinner spins, the tinner tips, the hanker hanks the hoodie —oh, happy land, wherein the band is playing Y.inkeo Doodle! Such peace as this is surely bliss, the timbel sounds our gladness, the psalter psalts, the waiter waits —to whop for war is madness! By Europe’s streams the moonlight gleans on pale and ghastly corpses, and heaven frown,-} on blackened towns and shattered guns and horses. But on this sharp no wave, of gore against jhp homcx stead washes; the sunlight shipes on pumpkin vines and large and luscious squashes.