PERILS AT HOME.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 18 January 1918, Page 7

PERILS AT HOME.

MR. TILLETT, M.P„ ON PACIFISTS AND PROFITEERS London, Nov. 26. Mr. Ben Tillett, M.P., speaking at the Haymarket Theatre yesterday afternoon on “The World-war and after,” said anybody who imagined for a moment that Germany- was beaten or had suffered up to the present anything more than the usual wastage of war making a huge mistake. She was still a terrible enemy wielding a terrible weapon. He knew we should win, but there was no use shutting our eyes to the fact that our task was still a difficult one. He wanted to_ sound a strong note of warning against the pacifists in pur midst. We had seen what they bad accomplished in Russia and were endeavouring to accomplish in Italy. “Pacifist” was only another name for “murderer.” By their methods they were causing the death of hundreds of thousands who were fighting at. the front. He hated war and militarism, but this war must be fought and won. (Cheers). He wished our statesmen would wake up and tell us the whole naked truth. After, the war we . must never allow the old state of things to recur. We mnst,have reprisals not only now but when the war was over. We should never win so long as we allowed the "profiteer” to exist. •‘I know the docks,” he said, “and f know of what I am speaking. Food is being held up to-day by the most wicked enemy that ever lived, the profiteer. I know of csfrgoes of provisions and meat which have been sold time after time. We could reduce prices by 50 per cent if only those at home would play the game. Germany won’t win the war, but we shall be beaten, if we are not very eakdful by the profiteer.”