CONSCRIPTION AND SACRIFICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1848, 4 July 1918, Page 2

CONSCRIPTION AND SACRIFICE.

“I AM an out-and-out conscriptiouist,” declared Mr S. Boreharii, a prominent member of the A.P.U., in an addresse delivered in the South recently. Mr Borehara, who was lecturing on Labour aims, was unusually emphatic. He said he would conscript men and money in order to win the war. Some men gave their sons', and others gave money, but others again gave neither. He knew a man at Dunedin who was reputed to own nearly £1,000,000, but refused to buy three,.half-crown-tickets for a returned soldiers’ social. In the early stages of the war he had given £25, but that was all. That was the wealth he would eonscript. If he (the speaker) had 100 sons he would say to every one of them, ‘Go and fight, and put- down the greatest evil that ever cursed the world, the most damnable tyrants that ever trod the face of the earth.’ As an old sailor he knew, what a German officer was capable of doing. He had seen it at Posen and at Antwerp. Such an officer had endeavoured to enforce his authority on the speaker’s boat one day, hut a left hooker had sent him sprawling, and he then knew that a Britisher would not submit to his overbearing insults. (Applause.) This war could not be won until Prussianism was smashed. The British nation was caught napping in 1914, but it would not be caught napping when peace terms were discussed. He hoped to see the day when the New Zealand artillery would rattle round Potsdam and shake its foundations into the inferno of hell. (Applause).