"DO SOMETHING!"

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 88, 12 May 1916, Page 8

"DO SOMETHING!"

MR WILL CROOKS' FIXE APPEAL. Mr W ill Crooks, M.P., made a stirring appeal in Loudon recently lor totally disabled soldiers and sailors. He said: " 1 here never was on God's earth such a baibarian .as the Kaiser, and a more wicked war was never waged. Witness the (scene at a Bclgan railwav junction: A train is loaded up With 800 young women, married and single, with hajids outstretched and tears on their faces. They are beseeching a neutral Jiienci. 'Wherp ,iro wo going? For Gods sake tell us! Where are we going? they cry. . . . That fate might nave been ours, our women' and our nomes, but for the men we are plead in" Tor to-night."--(Cheers.,) " Mr Crooks related a conversation he had in Prance with a b'ood-bespartered ;?■ , Lr ' Kne, ; !ln - '>>• the .stretcher. I •said, now do you Joel, son 5 ' '\|] rght,' he < replied, i think I'll be all right, don t .yon?' 'How long is it since Vv'i'f U "; t - 'I our days,' he replied. But I 11 be better when I get my clothes off. won t Ir" I turned round. I couldn t look the man in the face J ■said to myself. 'What have I done that d a!I t,lat ,ifp ' s worth to tight for me?'

My God! you can never repay these men tor what they have done for us.I - C aro . ,vot P lea ding for •somebody ekes people; we are pleading tor our own. Shall it be said in our day that we cannot raise £-30,000 to build oi ts n :l+ Richmond Hill? In Sheffield tramears there are placards. st. work, pay—do something.' J am asking you now to do something."