CHLOROFORMED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 10

CHLOROFORMED.

Aaquithism and all other sorts of professional optimism are possibly the gravest danger now confronting the British Empire. Under the heading "A Community what requires Dynamite and is given Cihloroform'' : "No one doubts that Germany must go under in the long run — anything else would be unthinkable. The danger of that attitude of jaunty confidence which is so prevalent is that the German resistance may be enabled to last for a very long time. The majority are drifting happily along the primrose paths of Empire-Day blither because they are doped — doped with garbled cable-messages and the cheerful prognostications of the sort of Warexperts who foretold that the Boers would be subdued in a month. The dope needs to be taken away It might be the worst thing that ever happened to Germany if its armies burst through the Allies' lines and took Calais and invested Paris. Vast sections in the United Kingdom, in Australia and elsewhere who are now dozing under the influence of- press soporifics, would then wake up. They would call for- . . - the organisation of the workers in such a way that each man could give the best that was in him to the State. For conscription — at any rate during the progreßs of the war. For the summary hanging of all swindling army contractors. In short, for a number of strenuous measures fitted to the violence and unusualness of the times."