ANTI-CONSCRIPT'S SENTIMENTS.
W T hen before the Magistrate for nonobservance of the Defence Act, George Jones, after refusing to take the usual mockery of an oath, and being asked what ho had) to say, replied: "I have no wish to break the laws of this or any other country. I have never been in such a place as this before. My sincere desire is to lead an honest and industrious life,-but militarism, with its wicked environments, together with its history of bloodshed and murder, is so repugnant to my better nature and inclinations that I am willing to suffer any punishment that- the law through you, sir, may inflict upon mc rather than bo forced to have anything to do, in any shape or form, with a profession I detest." Then a batch of letters George had sent to the military authorities were read.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 78, 6 September 1912, Page 1
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