A Monster of Filth and Fire
Maoriland Worker, Rōrahi 7, Putanga 304, 13 Hakihea 1916, Page 5
Mō tēnei niupepa
A Monster of Filth and Fire
The "Daily News" (London) quotes this fr6m a speech in the Prussian Diet, by Herr Stiulial, a Socialist deputy —"After this war nobody will dare to assert that war is a steel bath to improvo tho moralo of nations. Whoever has lived through the horrors of this war—wo have not all lived through them, but wo have heard sufficient about them —knows that THIS WAR IS NOT BEING CONDUCTED IN A CHIVALROUS MANNER, BUT THAT IT HAS BECOME AN-INSENSATE DEMON, A MONSTER CHILD OF FILTH
AND FIRE, A WAR OF RATS AND LICE, A WAR IN WHICH MEN ARE OBLIGED TO MOVE ABOUT FOR MONTHS IN MUD AND FILTH, AND WHICH IS BOUND TO HAVE A BLUNTING EFFECT, INTELLECTUALLY AND MORALLY. It is natural then that we should desire nothing so passionately as' the end of this war and that tho word which ,our statesmen proclaimed at tho boginning may bo realised. Wo hope that it may 'prove tho last war, and aa wo express this hope, so wo must take caro that the spirit of hate should not take hold of men more than can bo helped."
The bureaucracy oonsists of functionaries ; the aristocracy of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.—Shaw. •■****» Those who deny the Labour movement the opportunity of seeking to achieve much-needed changes by constitutional methods are the country's most dangerous enemies.
