THE GENERATION'S TASK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 59, 15 February 1916, Page 4

THE GENERATION'S TASK.

With all this German peace talk in the air and the interfering anxiety of some neutral countries to act in Germany’s interests, it is worth while recalling T. P. O’Connor’s words at the end of November. “I have just one word,” lie said, “to say with regard to pessimists and to peace-mongers. ! They are both wrong and they are both mischievous. The pessimists are wrong because the spirit of our people is as fierce as unrelenting, as resolute as ever; and that spirit will win ultimately ; will win even though we may have some severe checks; even some disasters. And the peace-mongers are wrong because we cannot have compromise with the demon gospel of Ger-j many; we must destroy it or allow it to destroy European civilisation. Eaclij generation of a nation has its allotted task; the task of our generation is to save the generations of our nation in the future from the intolerable burden and anxiety of preparing for a renewal of the light with German barbarism.) We must make it a clean job now—and for ever.”