HAVE NOT DONE ENOUGH.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1918, Page 7

HAVE NOT DONE ENOUGH.

RETURNED CHAPLAIN'S REMARKS. GERMANS MUST BE SMASHED. Scathing remarks concerning the man who will not'fight for hig country, but prefers to go to gaol, and also those people who say that New Zealand has done enough in the war, were made by the Rev. H. N. Roberts, at a welcome Lome to him and other returned soldiers at Woolston on Saturday night, says the Christchurch Press. ' "Since I have returned to New Zea> land." Mr. Roberts said, "I have seen several letters in the papers in Otago suggesting that this country has done enough in connection with the war It would be one of the moat wicked things we could do to refrain from further effort, and for people who stop at home to say: 'Let the Americans carry on." The man whc ■ wants another to light for him is no. good. I would not imprison a man who would not fight for his home; 1 would put him outside the pale of the law If he possessed a house I would put it outside the jurisdiction of the police; anyone could take it. I would not let him have a say in the gov* ernment of the country! I would not give him the advantage of any law court. If he came along the street I would like to push him off. I would not make a martyr of him. That man is too good for this world. He has no right to make money in it. He has no right to the protection of any law 1 leave my mother and sister at home knowing that they are safe because of the polic#. That is power. The only thin? in the world is power, and a man is really living under the power and protection of the army. We have not done enough in New Zealand until every single ablebodied man is either fighting in prance or 'producing war stuffs, and every ablebodied woman in this country is working on war work Then we have not done enough—until we have smashed the Gerlnans."

Mr. Roberts asked if a maniac were running around the city, would we consider we had done enough until we had secured him. The German was out to conquer the world, and he was out to do the same to us as to every country he had conquered His Government gave a bonus to every soldier in the army to breed children who were brought up as Germans. And yet people said we had done enough. Why. they had not as much pluck, as, the Leghorns in his back yard. That Chaplain Roberta' remarks met with the warm approval of his audience was evidenced by the frequent applause with which they greeted them.