SHUT THE DOOR TIGHT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 129, 7 January 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

SHUT THE DOOR TIGHT.

There has got to be a fight, and it will be a long and a hard light to keep Germans and German trade out ot the I nited Kingdom and the rest of the Empire alter the war. 1 know quite ttcil that the advocates oi this sane and patriotic policy will meet with an opposition as bitter as when they advised preparation ior war, and the opposit.on will come from the same peop.e. We shall find ourselves contronted with all the musty old Flee Trade, Radical, and Nonconformist shibboleths. \Vc shall be called Protect.on-L-,ts. We shall hear all the slop about forgiving our enemies and keeping an open door to the world. 1 do not want to forgive my enemies, nor to keep an open door to the German spy and the German blackleg and the German knave. 1 want to keep the door shut tight and to keep the unspeakable Hun outside it. The proper answer to the Briton who cannot nnd potash in England is that he has Kot to find it in England or in France, in Russia, or in America, or he has got to do without it. There is nothing we need that cannot be produced in our own Empire or in the countries of our Allies. 1 mention this matter because 1 can guess what opposition it will raise and because I think the sooner we begin to educate the public the better. We do not want Germany to prepare for another war through our trade, nor do we want spies, pirates, baby-killers, and poisoners of wells in our midst.