THE MAORILAND WORKER AND CONSCRIPTION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 14

THE MAORILAND WORKER AND CONSCRIPTION.

Sir, —In a recent issue of The Worker, you make some pointed remarks about the Wanganui correspondent, "A Socialist," as touching his ideas in boosting conscription. As an example of "cultured intelligence," there 13 one part of his letter, whore ho refers to "tho way being widely open for frenzied ignorauco to overwhelm cultured intelligence," that fairly gives the whole show away. I wonder what does he mean by "cultured intelligence?" Does he refer to tho 'cultured," "intellectual" Anglo-Saxons who aro still arming and training the Japs, and Chinese? Does he mean those cultured folk who build Dreadnoughts and manufacture munitions of war for China, Japan, Russia, and various other "nations?" If that's the case, then sure enough (ho "frenzied ignorance" ho speaks of is none othor than that displayed on tlio part of his own ilk, which, as he most truly says, ''amounts to imbecility." And, of course, what increases tlio imbecility is that wo must not fight the cultured, intelligent armaments financiers direct— that would close the way of being overwhelmed, it would also bo "unpatriotic" and "unconstitutional," etc., but we must fight them through the poor, deluded, untutored Asiatic! Truly, the way some "cultured" people's intelligence takes them at times is really amazing! Talk about fools making rods for their own backs. Yes, tho way is wide open, not thro other rtien'a "frenzied ignorance,", but through our own. —Yours, etc., Chch. E. H. C. JUDDER.