PHYSICIAN, SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN.
Rather they should educate the people, as they were endeavouring to do in regard to soldiers. Ignorance was the greatest enemy they had to fight when dealing with Temperance reform. It was ignorance which led the people to countenance the traffic, and, as in the old days y.. it was ignorance which had its effect upon the efficiency of the army. They must educate them- < 1 selves and others on the matter, J ind spread abroad the results which had been obtained from scientific investigation. What they wanted were not men who ’ would die for their country, but rather men who would live for their country’s highest good. (Applause.) The General re- - sumed his seat amid s storm of applause, having spoken for weli-s over an hour, and his passionate: appeal was not lost on an appreciative audience. ...... / c‘- :
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 11 July 1907, Page 1
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143PHYSICIAN, SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 11 July 1907, Page 1
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