Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1916. Last Day for Bonds.
EXPERTS DECLARE THAT SUCH AN OPPORTNITY WILL NOT OCCUR AGAIN FOR A LONG TIME. TO INCOME-TAX-PAYERS THE INVESTMENT IS PARTICULARLY ATTRACTIVE AS THE PRODUCT ESCAPES TAXATION. TAKE THE LAST CHANCE TODAY-.
WHEN the Kaiser passed through Cologne the Fiend’s Call To other day he Prayer. told the people who came to gaze at him to go to church and pray for victory and an honourable peace. It is one of the stock hypocrises of the Kaiser and his junkets that the war was forced on Germany by the Allies and the German armies are fighting for German national existence. The pretension pays. The German man in the street appears to be an exceedingly gnllible person. He believes what he is told by authority just as readily as he does what be is ordered by the 'same authority. The pretence that war was i'otced on Germuy seems to the German to place Kaiser and workman in one persecuted category and all in the position of dependence of God. They ate all fighting for national existence. But what weald be the result if the truth were to permeate their heavy brain that the slaughter, the hunger and the general destitution are simply the result of the Kaiser’s ghoulish ambition, that if he had accomplished what he desired they would have been no better off, an d that his failure is plunging them into destitution that will last for years, pins the hatred of the whole world? While the Kaiser car. bamboozle the German masses with the notion that their interests are identical with his they will provide men for gun fodder and flatter his ribald soul with cries of “Hocb. ”
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11651, 21 August 1916, Page 4
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291Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1916. Last Day for Bonds. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11651, 21 August 1916, Page 4
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