THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1621, 7 October 1916, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Somebody is faking advantage of the national crisis to line their own pockets.—Will Crooks, M.P.

Navies are only means to ends. Wars, However fearful and however frequent, are interludes. The life of a nation is its life in peace time. Arnold White.

We women are the mothers and husbands of our soldiers. M c are also the housekeepers of the nation, the buyers. That is our title to speak and act. —Lady Burnham.

I should like to see everybody agree to abstain from eating meat for a month. We should be none the worse for it, and it would do the meat trusts good.—C. \N. Bowerman, M.P.

We • wish for peace as ardently as anyone, but it must be the right sort of peace, and it must be. a permanent peace, which means that Prussian militarism must go, f or, after all, it is this militarism we are combating rather thans Germany. M, Sazonoff.

It must be recognised that all have to make sacrifices in consequence of the war, and that -the vicious circle of, first, an increase of wages, then an increase in cost of production,*aml thence an increase of prices, again leading to demands for further increases of wages, must lie a voided. —Right, Hon. L. Harcourt, M.P.

From the present indications, Germany is destined to receive a rude awakening when at last she lays down her arms. The stringency of the censorship and the absence of facilities for free communication with the outside world have prevented her people from realising the universal commercial and industrial boycott that has been created and is being extended with increasing virulence against all things German. Racial antagonism has been stirred too deeply to. settle down into slumber once again. And the shock will vibrate ns violently through the empires of Central Europe as did the clash of arms which dually brought' German; militarism to a standstill. James Armstrong.