THE SAVIOUR OF HIS COUNTRY.
(To the Editor.:)
Sir, —I say "Shame! Shame"' on Eu.siuud returning to their colonies the sick nod convalescent as steerage passenger.?, aud thrive cry "Shame" ou those Colonial Governments that have allowed their brave and heroic soldiers to become, in London, recipients of charity. It was ever thus, and .something after the patter of Kipling's rhymes jingle out the truth:— "They booked us home by steerage, , They sent us down third class, But just before the. fighting They promised us their brass." We English took our defeats like Romans—heroically. Over our successes we became, for once in our historyt hysterically;' French. Are we going to mete out our gratitude, as we measure out our religion, in/ nothing more substantial than inouthings of praise and needless monuments?— Yours, etc., SPHINX.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 290, 6 December 1900, Page 2
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