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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1915, Page 8

Show us a man mimicking others well, and we will ?how you one who can make a fool of himself. It does not matter so much who win:, the most battles as who wins the last battle. Henry Ward Beecher said: "Riches are not an end of life hut an instrument of life." Humility is that paradoxical state'of the mind that makes us proud that we have no pride. The New York Herald, referring to the tone of certain English newspapers in regard to the war, says:—Lord Kitchener knows that the section of the Press that is howling for conscription and assailing the ''high command" of the army for not performing the impossible, is the same section that at the beginning ol the war impeded recruiting by clamoring for "business as usual." He is conscious that it is the same section of the Press that has given consolation to Ocrman\ and inspired the belief in Berlin that. Britain finally will consent to a shameful peace; lie knows that it is the same section of the Press which in the unccnsored articles of its military experts gave information to the enemy that cost thousands of British and French lives after the battle of the Marne, and ■* !» i!>, same section of the Press that no"S, v 'tUun Piussia is staggering from the blows ofj an opponent who has prepared for war for forty years, is attempting to undermine the confidence of the Russian people and army in the good faith and determination of the armies and people of Great Britain. France and Italy.