EACH FOR ALL AND ALL FOR EACH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 217, 12 September 1911, Page 2

EACH FOR ALL AND ALL FOR EACH.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —-The above is the motto of the Socialist party, ami it's on that motto that I poirct out their inconsistency in their side-tracking movement, the AntiConscription League. If they believe in the abolition of war and military training, why don't they boldly declare so, and not beat around the bush; and if they do sfcanfl for univ-ersal peaco amongst the nations than why ask for a volunteer soldiery? These people profess to consider soldiering immoral, 'but wishing to take no part in the purifying of same, they beg to be excused from stopping this immorality. That, I say, is the standpoint of a coward, who hasn't the courage of his ■convictions, and should for ever hold his peace. At the last meeting, held in the Federal Hall by the Anti-Conscription League, I moved a logical amendment for the abolition of all military training, and I witnessed the grand and noble sight of a Socialist speaker opposing the amendment as Utopian and side-tracking. My contention is that the side-tracking ig done 'by the Peace Society, Quakers, Latour fakirs, and other axe-grinding 'bodies, and the movement that is being side-tracked is the Socialist movement. —I am, etc., WM. MURDOCH.