The Daily News. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. GOING ON TO THE END.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1915, Page 4

The Daily News. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. GOING ON TO THE END.

In every arduous undertaking, no matter what its extent, it is the cheering incidents that count in the scale of ultimate achievements. That is why the recent good news from the Western and Eastern theatres of war is so welcome at this juncture. It acts as a tonic on the pessimists, giving them confidence where doubt existed, and it has a moral force that cannot fail to be of great service. There is nothing like a victory to hearten up the victors and to depress the beaten adversaries. To-day the Empire and its Allies are more confident than ever that they will emerge triumphant, always provided they are loyal to the best that is in them. It was Mr. Asuuith who said: "Our duty, which we shall fulfil, is to continue to the end in the course we have chosen, and do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace." Every step forward to this goal brings with it a cleared concep- ■ tion of the gigantic task that has to be accomplished, but it also shows that there is but one course to pursue—to go ou to the end, no matter what the cost, ' and finally win through. Wliat matters most is the spirit in which the incidents of the war are met by the Allies. Calmness in the hour of success, confidence when reverses are met with, hut anxiety, never; always having supreme faith in the prevailing power of right over that of might. We have only to look at Belgium and Russia to understand what the supremacy of soul over metier means. Battered on the German military anvil with a ferocity that beggars description, these two nations today, in suite of their terrible handling by the barbaric Huns, are as determined as ever in the ultimate triumph of the great cause for which they have spent tki-ir Mood 'Hid treasure, and no bribe I that Ornmni could offer would he rei iv.rdK.! utiicnii-ie than with the nlnw-i ! disdain. The fitHsiau writer, Dostoov-

sky, has truly said: "Science and reabon have, from the beginning of time, played a secondary and subordinate part in the life of nations; so it will be to the end of time. Nations arc built up and moved by another force which sways and dominates them, the origin of which is unknown and inexplicable. That is the force of an insatiable desire to go on to the end." That is why Russia will

go on, France will go on, the British Empire will go on to the end—to tie triumph of moral over brute force, to the dethronement of the god of material fowe worshipped 80 slavishly by the .Germans. A Canadian journal has truly said that our Empire cannot be shattered by blows, for the Wows aimed with that intent serve the far more useful purpose of welding it more -firmly together, adding strength to strength, consolidating its aims and high ideals, and unifying the various branches into one mighty whole pledged to advance the world's peace, and to ensure the freedom and inviolability of the weaker nations. Germany, obsessed with the wild drama of world dominance, may sot understand this aspect of the terrible straggle into which she has imaged the greater part of the world, but the time is at hand when her awalecwag wHI take place, and will realise to her seaow that the determination of the ABies to go ob to the end win assuredly sealto fete. ATI the skill, Muster., Uasjmanty, conning, and diabolical csuelfcies in which she places her trust will not avail to stem the ww&rd march of destiny. The spiritual faith of the AUies will yet bumble to the dust their materialistic enemy, in spite of all her aß**B£sg» ta 'war eqmpmaat. It k not, tfaerefaw, ea tie mißtery situsfsm afene Oatwwed concentrate attention, but rather on the effect such situation has upon the people •of the Empire and our 'Afflee, sad tJiat effect is amply evidenced by taeir oca«4ene«iia fee issue and their datenatfe*-tfea-tt- go on to the end.