HOW TO MAKE THE WAR WORTH WHILE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 150, 25 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOW TO MAKE THE WAR WORTH WHILE.

SOME STIRRING WORDS FROM MR. HORATIO BOITOMLEY. In a striking article in the "Royal Magazine" Mr. Horatio llottomley discusses our task as a nation after the war if we arc to reap the lull benefit from it. Here arc a few extracts from the article : I "We are going to win this war. "Neither we nor our children, nor our children's children will witness such a conflict again. " We shall presently stand upon the thrcsho'd of tho world's peace. "How are we to insure for ourselves and all tht world that Armageddon was worth while ? "We have, a.s a nation, takon a moral bath, and we are being purified by our own blood. "As a result of this war we may le thrust back a thousand years or Hung forward a century. We must see that we are flung forward.

"We are already prepared for great changes. Our social system has been revolutionised in a year. In the face of a common danger and a common end, class hatred is dead.

" We will want business Kitcheners not so much to conduct wars as to prevent them " We shall have to reform our business methods from top to bottom. "Imperial Parliament will have to be Imperial in actual fact. "If we can vote millions to be spent in shot and shell we can vote a few more to enable our soldiers to make the shot and shell of Peace.

"To secure the advantages of Peace wc shall require all our brains and all our hearts.

" Let us prepare ourselves for a rebirth of the world."