WHAT THE MEN WANT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 270, 31 October 1916, Page 2

WHAT THE MEN WANT.

A Territorial officer in tbe firing line in Frame—an officer, who is a keen politician—sends this letter to the (Vestmi.ster Gazette: “It seems so ludicrous to ran—out herein this nightmare country —to read in the paper of all this agitation ar.d fuss about the new register and a General Election and ‘(Jne Gun, One Vote,’ and so on. If people at home really think that our men are worrying about being temporarily disfranchised they have got tho whole show in tho wrong perspective.

“My men are worrying aboilt rats and mosquitoes and pipsqueaks and woolly bears and things like that (and certainly in that order of worn '), and if you took a referendum out here you would get about two rep.ies out of a hundred—and they would probably be spoilt votes, because the lads express themselves crudely at times.

“The things they want are homfe and wives and children and swethearts and clean clothes and a bath and some English beer simple things like that. Not votes at all. They are quite content to leave all that to the people who are carrying on at home. When you are serving a gun day and night in a place like this it seems Edmund-Lear-like to think of a Tommy worrying himself about voting. He's too busy sending — aud dodging—Death.”