PRIDE OF RACE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 2

PRIDE OF RACE.

[to the editor.] Sir,—All through our glorious history we have never lacked individuals whose mission has been to lament cur decadence. Even the saints throughout the generations have expressed the fear that pure religion and undefiled was expiring. Ana then an English nurse, working in a strange land, is proud to serve her race, and in that light of martyrdom there is revealed a noble spirit cultured on the doctrines of Christ. The story of Edith Cavell, as tcid by Brand Whitlock, the American Representative at Brussels, in the October number of ‘‘Everybody’s” magazine, is only one of a host whose hidden life is the strength of j our Empire. Politics have many] times been described as a sink of J iniquity. Yet, despite the conflict of material interests, and ambitions, never has any nation been served ! so unselfishly, so faithfully, and so [ well as has Britain. Hampden, Pym, Piiinsoll, Shaftesbury, their names I are many. And the personal honour ■of our statesmen to-day is quite ' worthy to be compared with any ; proceeding generation. Pictures of > the might and power of the British i Navy brought to silence the jeering lof Welsh Socialist miners. They rej spected organised force. Bat greater > still, is the fact that every day upon - those leviathians, tiie crew join to i pray “That we . . . may be a security for such as pass on the seas; upon their lawful occasion, that the inhabitants of our island may in peace and quietness serve Thee, our God; and that we may return in safe.ty to enjoy the blessings of the land, with the fruits of our labours, and with a thankful remembrance of Thy mercies to praise and glorify Thy Holy Name.” It is no idle form of words. Remember the address of J Captain Glossop to the crew of the | tiyoiicy, after tiie sinking of the I Emden. The massages of Jellicoe, of | Beatty, and of Sturdoe, testify to the j character of our leaders. Could man ; have done more for men than I 5 Roberts. There are other generals; |of his typo. Above all, who can; i measure the restraining influence of i our King and Queen. They support; i domestic virtue and national purity.; j As a utilitarian. I have no love for i i kings because of their office ; per-1 ! sonal worth counts more than the s | stamp of rank; and it is with thank-' I fulness we honour our King and i | Queen. We were not and are not; [decadent. Crime statistics supply I ; the proof. Serious crime in Great' i Britain has shewn a marked de-j i crease for the last thirty years, a , ' record which no other European ! j nation can equal. Neither have we i , attained perfection. Reading the ! evidence of Maud Allen v. Billing I libel case, and the undisputable ; statement of Lloyd George respect- '■ i ing the low physique of so many ill ; nourished Britishers, the call comes : to all who are proud of their raca ic, J join band's in restraining evil and j pi ■-mi>inig good.—l am, etc., 1 H. Tl. FRENCH, j V.'ahmkiiT Tu, •?!‘1 V'HdS.. I