IN A FOOL'S PARADISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 140, 4 June 1908, Page 2

IN A FOOL'S PARADISE.

llif organ of the. National League of - v ' w . ••Uufwiw," is doing good •service ill showiiiM; us oiu- utter helpand the danger that menaces uill very existence. aa a people whilst n<\ trick-like. hide ouv heads i)i the SUL'I and t.ike no »trp.-, to pill ourselves in a position lu protect our interests. Wi' depend a> absolutely and entirely upon tlie Jlritish .Navy fu r our national existence, tor our national independence, a* JJoman Britain depended fur its Mviuity muni tlie ir»ioii!) of Ihu Komail jMiipirr. And will any man say that it i--; ilieiMieei\ali!e that the Imperial (Joveriinivut ini-ht he temporarily i-niii-pellcil to uiMidra\v il s .sipiiulroii's from ifie l'aeifie"/ "Uetener points out. it is moM .uuod llial we .-Imuld wish to make ,\<"\v |;i (t ' I a uiinlt'l Slate. Mood ilial wr >h..nM >,•<•!; lo >«, order Iha l it •Jinuld never he rotted liy shann till pnvI'lNUrv. tha! e should u»L lie I

.iml In m;; l- open li.-fon- even child ii X'» Xfiilaiul. Hit*, win.l. if .New Zealand ilsi-lf be turn in,in us; What I licit would he tin' yowl of all our planning ami all ,uu' dreaming? "D«fniec"' goes un In kiiv: Ami while we ari' talking of what we will il »1 what we will not do, hawk-eyed states"i''ii |>»ri' over Hi a|> „f the JVilic •'"'l |>limi fiitiin's for Xcmv Zealand' in which we have, no part, ..xactly as our pioneers pined and planned over this land when with prophetic eye they saw the Maori swept awav ami their own people plaiited in his r.K-ii.l. In IVkin, in Tokm. in St. Petersburg, and in Herlin. they have marked us thus; "New Zealand qllile defenceless." And their hcarls are tilled with the land-hunger which Coil inspires in -trony men's hearts lor Ihe weeding out' 1)1 the worthier ami tlie unlit. Thai i, what we ;ire to-day worthless, unlit. enable In hold this land of ours from < iiertnan army corps if it came in sigh!! i liable to keep our women- intr ninthits. our -i-tor-. our wives, our dniiglitcr-. flm-o we lovr from the iinnanie-

al.le horror- „r Asiatic hordes if th" Fateful Hour -inliii-nly .struck! I'nabic '" keep n -cl 1 open. In pay a pen--inn. n, enforce a ,si|t»le law- if we were, taken by the threat liv those who woiilil not have dared In look into our lyraiid-iro-' eve-. Trtilv a Konl', Paradise! Vel il i- not vet t,,0 hi:,.. We have slill time to arm. lo train, i,. drill. ],. make >o I'l'ililv that these hawk-eveil -talesmen Ins-ark and Idilan. M.inclm ami .lap will fining, their map-mark-ins; with nillcli cursing, iml nl uan.sl -nine other people. K„r alwnvs S!n.„...||, , makes f,„- lV.tce. while W-aki in ! vile- War. 'I he men and women of ! a iiafiou nhiili cannot !i::l,t can call | neither land nor law. nor pnr-e iter ; ~wn. I'.ui wheic nee men have traiifd | and made re.olv to 'cght for Iheir j eoiinliv. I! hihl mav -!eep -afelv in it- mother", arm-, and Hie work-worn