THE WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12935, 1 October 1902, Page 9

THE WAR.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In view of the heroic sacrifices made by the British Empire to maintain its prestige in South Africa, it is, to say the le«b of it, brazen effrontery on the part of Mr T. E- Taylor to salute the public of New Zealand with the announcement that half the people he met in England openly avowed their hostility to the war. The only deduction possible from this statement is' that Mr T. E. Taylor selected pro-Boers for acquaintances. No British war has ever received more emphatic support from the peopie than did the recent campaign in South Africa. To the unswerving patriotism of the masses was due the ultimate victory; and for this fact, which has been recognised, not only by the Boers, but by every civilised nation in the world, to be controverted by Mr T. E. Taylor, is a proof that his mind is too prejudiced to arrive at sound conclusions. If the majority of Britishers had shared Mr Taylors views, the Empire to-day would be non-existent.—l am, etc., LOYAL.