THE END OF PRUSSIANISM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 2

THE END OF PRUSSIANISM.

•'■'SPEAKING at Wellington yesterday, :ii ;i public demonstration, Sir. Joseph Ward .said: ‘"Par lour years Great Britain and her Allies have been slamming the path of the dirty dogs who have been frying to erase freedom and liberty from the world, and to-day we have those dogs craving ami asking for an armistice/’ The armistice with Austria, he said, meant the end of Prussian militarism, the end of the Houses of the lloheimolJerns and the llapslmrgs, who were about to be buried under the mountain of iniquity (bat- they had been erecting for the past fifty years. (Cheer.-.) The Kaiser, as 1 he head of the houses, was going to be annihilated. (Cheers.) His abdication was, at the present moment, only a mailer of lime, and'it was doubtful whether he could avoid (he late of ilie Tsar of llus.-ia. Sir Joseph expressed his utmost gratification and thankfulness for the developments which had taken place, for it meant a glorious triumph for right and justice. (Cheers.) The Central Powers must have realised long ago that they had no hope of winning in the end, yet they prolonged the war, at the cost of much blood and many lives. Germany must realise now that the pitfall was before her —that there could be only one end —yet she prolonged the war, but retribution would come. However, they should not only exact retribution, but demand every penny piece of indemnity that could be extracted from a blackguardly and ruthless foe, if only to teach it, and the nations which had stood by it, that war did not pay. (Cheers.) They would have to leach a lesson to the bloodthirsty scoundrels who had hoped lo dominate the world. (Cheers.) He wa- very certain that they would meet again soon to celebrate Gernpuiy’- downfall. ‘'And

when that time comes,” lie con chided, “I don’t care whether New Zealand goes mad with joy from one end to the other.” (Cheers.)