Snapshots from "War-What For?" I REFUSE TO KILL.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 35, 3 November 1911, Page 7

Snapshots from "WarWhat For?"

I REFUSE TO KILL.

Brother I Whoever you are, wherever you are on all this earth, I greet you. You aire a, member of the workingclass. I am a member of the working-class. We are brothers. Class brothers. Let us repeat that: Class brothers. Let us write that on our hearts, and stamp it on our brains. I extend to you my right hand . I make you a pledge. Here is my pledge to you: I refuse to kill your father. I refuse to slay your mother's son. I refuse to plunge a bayonet into the breast of your sister's brother. I refuse to, slaughter your sweetheart's lover. I refuse to murder your wife's husband. I refuse to butcher your little child s '_t father. I refuse to wet the earth with blood and blind kind eyes with tears. I refuse to assassinate you, and then hide my stained fists in the folds of any flag. I refuse to be flattered into hell's nightmare by a class of well-fed snobs, crooks and cowards, who despise outclass socially; ro hour class economically and betray our class politically. Wil lyou thus pledge mc and all the members of our yorking-class?