WHAT THE SOLDIER BELIEVES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 12

WHAT THE SOLDIER BELIEVES.

Ye sons of freedom, wake to glory, Hark, bark, what myriads bid you rise, Your children, wives, hoary— Behold their tears and hear their cries!

and graiiidsires

To arms ! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheath! March on! march, on! all hearts resolved

On liberty or death!

(Issued by Anti-Militarist Council, Auckland.) Read these words, written by Col P. N. Maude, 0.8

"If human suffering is not cumulative, then it is quite immaterial to a man whether he makes one widow or 5000; whether as a-result of his actions one person starves or 50,000; whether there are 5000 wounded in his own or the eaiemies' Ikies or 50,000! . Such a mail will no more hesitate to order the destruction of London, iai the execution of his duty, than to open fire on a single farmhouse building in the enemies' lines, and the more profoundly religious the man's convictions, the further he is prepared to go. Witness Cromwell at Drogheda and Gordon uu China and the Soudan when fighting had to bo done. It is God's will that wars should arise and it is by God's will that the soldier is placed in a position of power responsibility for the defence- of his country's interests."'

Mothers of New Zealand, do you believe that? Christian believers in New Zealand, does Christ teach that?

Men with human hearts in New Zealand, do you endorse that?

Will you give your children, over to these people? You are told that drill is good for your children's health. Read what Col. Maude thinks it is good for: — "This, indeed, remains the standing tactical problem of all ages, how to Ret men together within efficient killing distance of their enemy ; amid whether the distance be four feet or four hundred yards, essentially it always remains the same, and. of all means towards its solution, DISCIPLINE THROUGH DRILL is the surest aoid mos+ reliable factor to work upon." Parents of New Zealand I Will you let your childrezi" be driven by suclx men?

Don't you love them? Let them go anywhere before the slaughter house. Join the Anti-Militarist Council and fight this crime against the little ones, against yourselves; aganst your fellows, ajid against your Maker!