"SCAREMONGERS.”

Waipukurau Press, Issue 306, 10 September 1908, Page 7

"S CAREMONGERS.”

The German Peace Society has issued a manifesto, which has been placed before the National Council of Peace Societies, and has met with its hearty approval. In deploring war scares, the German manifesto says:— “ The fact that England has become reconciled with her former enemies, the French, and with her ancient rivals, the Russians, is adduced as a proof of a design to isolate, exclude, and encircle Germany. Just as if reasonable people could be induced to believe that a people ■ of sixty millions, ■which, united with Austria or Italy, would be able to send to the field an army of over seventeen millions of soldiers, could ever be considered a ‘quantite neghgeable.’ ” It is pointed out that up to the present no German interests have been injured in any perceptible way. No attack has been made on German- frontiers, on her independence ; no German right has been affected, no German possession has been destroyed. Everything that is now pointed out as endangering Germany’s position in the concert of nations is but a spectre produced by morbid distrust. The German Society adds: “We sufficiently trust the German people’s sense and self-control to believe that they will be able to give an unmistakable expression to their love of peace by putting an end to the misdoings of the scaremongers. May the idea of peace prevail over all attempts to stir up the war fever. May our people show their strength by a peaceful competition in the promotion of civilisation, instead of seeking the laurels of warfare, which would give advantage to no one, and would end in the final exhaustion of all thoseenga ged in it.”