THE NEW WAR PARTY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9672, 21 December 1909, Page 4

THE NEW WAR PARTY.

Amid all the oinoos changes in these days, remarks & writer in one of the leading London weeklies, perhaps the most Remarkable has been the; gradual rise of a new war party, for such we cannot hesitate to cpII it. The war party of a generation ago WM, at was supposed to be, made up of a land-grabbing, blustering set who, amjllingly accepted the tisles of war m order to paint the map rei. The oiri war party has ceased to have an occupation. But what of the naw war party? The new war party lias very different principles from the Jingoes, but the dangers to which it exposes the country are the same./It does not want to. take s&'wa® other pei pie's property, but it doer want! to interfere freely, and (as would be thoughts obnoxiously in their affairs. It is not acquisitive; it iff inquisitive. It is not blood- ] itjsi intensely "hwmanltarif3* Ari example of its principles Was Riven in the assertion that the British, Government ought to have ma3erejweaentatiofls to Spain on the ak)ject of Ftsrrer*a trial. But an accumulation of unwarrantable acts of ujjberffirence» however small, would assuiruiiniy produce the very undesirable impression throughout the were prying people, wftwa? behaviour was and that we were altogether aft uncomfortable kind of neighbour to bave. It wa fell into such relations with other nations, it would mean, of coarse, that we 'could never feel sore of the durability of a single friendship.