A POPULAR SONG IN THE UNITED STATES.
" A friend of mine Avho has lately re-" turned from a visit to America tells me that wherever he' travelled he heard the Song of the Pacifist," says Sydney Brooks, in the "Mail." .-'lt runs as follows:— '" ' I didn't raise my son to be a soldier. 1 brought him up t& be my pride and joy. Who dares to put a <on his shoulder, " v ' To kill fcomo other mother's darling boy ? ' The nations ought to arbitrate their quarrels, 1 It's time to put the eword and gun 1 away. ■ Ther'd be ,nov.war tp-^ayo ' .'* lf; mothers all would say," " J didn't raise mj' ton to be a soldier!" ' "Behind the sentiment expressed in , this ditty there is rallied; in my judgment, a force of American opinion such as has never yot in any country beoi devoted to the cause of peace—;peace at any price, peace regardless of justice and national dignity and rights."'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8270, 15 October 1915, Page 3
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