THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1922, Page 8

THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.

X RECORD OF USELESSNESS AND SHAME. Turkey, under Abdul the Damned, was dry’, as Turkey has been always since its conquering rise; and Russia under Lenin the Terrible has been dry, and, under them both, humanity as organised in nations has reached its coarsest, most ferocious, brutalised and hopeless form. Bone-dry Turkey has the lowest code of morals ever known in anything called a civilisation. It has debased its women, permitted them only bodies and no souls, and has slaughtered helpless subjects with an almost holy zeal. All the time this degradation of the human emotions and instincts has proceeded without any incentive from the maddening effects of spirits and without any mellowing from the effects of wine or beer. A bone-dry nation has been the least useful. t|ie least productive, the most cruel, and the most useless which ever disgraced the earth under the name of civilisation. The Turks have been in what has been esteemed the garden spot of the world, the source of civilisation, of its arts and science, its religions and wealth. They have not tilled the soil nor had an art. They have no literature and they have fashioned no metals into works great or small. Their only instinct was to degrade and butcher, and their idea of immortality was a disorderly house.—Chicago Tribune. •■The unspeakable Turk’’ is, and always has been, a prohibitionist. The Turkish record of atrocities and oppression is the record,of a nation which has been "dry” by its religion for centuries. Followers of Mahomet are all prohibitionists. Shall Now Zealand, as a nation, adopt Mahommedan standards of morality? Vote Continuance and maintain British character and self-reli-ance.—Advt. 41