WEAK KNEED AND CHICKEN-HEARTED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 6

WEAK KNEED AND CHICKEN-HEARTED.

There has already been evidence (says the Xata! Witntsi) that many who shouted loudest for war and uigiil others to do their duty to Queen and country are entirely we ik-ki'eed and chickenhearted. To ihe hor. our and credit of the colony, these timid men and hysterical women, who are cowering with apprehension or seeking safety in hasty flight now that danger tlutatens, belong not to us. Tfiey are for the mo->t part, from the r.inks <>t thos who enmo from rhe enemv'R country to th i-> place fur shelttr and for whom, in a large measure, our br.ive lads ,<t the front are pouring thcr life'- blood Tn one case h,i]f-a-cio/en individuals or the malegemler who, directly they heard that the Boers were south of Ladysmith, immediately took train away. Many f ices, familiar in Maritzburg a few days ago, would be sought for in v.un now — faces of men who. in their airy pride and effervescent valour, presumed to tell us bow the conquered term, ry was to be divided. When events did not go altogether m our favour, they vio]»n;ly attacked the Home Government, the War Oiii* c, our officers, and our heroes at the front. They dared do this, and to refer to us who gave them shelter and gave our money to their destitute as ' you British.' Now, when they have emptied their wrath-vials, when their flabbiness has become an unpleasant spectacle, they huve fled, afraid. Let them go ; we are well quit of them.