THE SOLDIERS' VILIFIER
THE OBJECTIONABLE "POEM."
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
MELBOURNE, Bth December.
J. K. M'Dougall, the ex-member- of tho Labour Party in the House of Representatives, who admitted writing offensive versee about soldiers, and was seized by a party of returned men at his home near Ararat, who stripped and tarred and feathered him, wrote the poem at the time of the Boer war. During the present war it has been frequently republished. It refers to soldiers as " sordid killers who would murder for a fee," and one verse runs :—
" Hog-souled and dirty-handed, Ye ,sell yourselves for gain, And stand for ever branded Red felons after Cain."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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107THE SOLDIERS' VILIFIER Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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