ARE WE BECOMING A NATION OF COWARDS?

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 17 February 1910, Page 6

ARE WE BECOMING A NATION OF COWARDS?

CTo tie Editor.) Sir,—ln case the following Brew... excerpt from the letter of Iffi Special Correspondent, JLuto** Saturday's "Star" § caped the notice of some of your ers, will you be good enough to i»n*! duce it for their benefit? "P™ , "Are we becoming a nation of ««. ards? The question is forced when newspapers shriek about «T 'menace , of this, that, or the of* country. Time was when the BrftUk ji-ngo plumed himself on being canal t at least three foreigners. That-was • ■norance and narrow conceit, no douif but, at least, it was an improvement n» the craven assumption of the tweritiVtfc century jingo that it takes three lta tishers to equal one foreigner •n, howl with fear because they. ttre 3 twice as strong as any other natin. "They want to feel 'secure,'. But the timid man can never fee] cure—if, indeed, there can ever W «!£ a thmg as security in S o uncerw! thing as human life. The worst of * is that, it the jingoes become predom , ™ ant after the election, not social reform be retarded for Year* i rears, but there will really be a ,p~ serious danger of this country }J7. em-broilled in a war wßhsGeriaa? °* If you begin by distrusting and calling him names, votive »«!£ sure to end by quarrelling with S 1 and nations are much like indiridS in that respect."—l am, ANTI-jisqo.