PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Thirty-ninth Year of Publication ESTABLISHED 1875 Manawatu Daily Times FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12931, 30 October 1914, Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Thirty-ninth Year of Publication ESTABLISHED 1875 Manawatu Daily Times FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914.

THERE is ample evidence that if Germany as a result of the war is not wiped out of existence as u Power, and made to pay heavily for the injury she has inflicted upon the humah race, it will not bf the fault of the British people whose feeling is mirrored by the press. The Guardian, which is the organ of the English Church, remarks: —''Already talk is heard of the need for magnanimity, of the importance of avoiding reprisals, and so forth. We hope to see no reprisals in kind—we shall mutilate no wounded, kill no women and children, burn no universities. But there is absolutely no room for magnanimity. It is imperative that the disease of militancy which has laid hold of an entire people should be extirpated, and it is absurd to say that the conditions of peace must not be siich that a proud nation cannot accept them. We have to do, not with a proud, but wit)h a .criminal nation —a people individually responsible for numberless crimes against humanity 'numberless outrages upon the laws of civilised warfare, a people who have made war upon France and Belgium without a shadow of an excu3e —Germany had no quarrel with either. She must be deprived of the power of ever repeating her abominable assault upon the freedom and independence of other peoples. By indemnities —necessarily heavy, especially where Belgium is concerned—losses of territory, and collateral disabilities, she must be finally deprived of the power to do mischief. 'Never again' must be the motto of the Allies when the final reckoning comes.'' The London Times is also emphatic. It insists on retribution, and says: —"The Allies will go to Berlin to settle accounts, and not to lay waste the Fatherland. Not until the horsemen of the gathering nations ride down Unter den ' inden will the German people realise fully that their mad dreams of world-domi-nation are shattered for ever. . . ; The defenders of civilisation will destroy, but they will not destroy women's virtue nor ancient sanctuaries, nor peaceful homes. They will deitroy the warships and arsenals, and shipbuilding yards and fortresses, all the paraphernalia of Teutonic warfare, by which terror has been spread.'' The expiation of Louvain, The Times says, 'should be "the absolute obliteration of the Krupp works at Esse't," and

"the destruction of Krupp's and Wil-

helmshaven" is declared by the Pall Mall Gazette to be the minimum which the Allies should demand.

IN days of old people believed that the only sure method of destroying a wizard, or an inhuman monster, was to use a silver bullet. In a recent speech Mr Lloyd George brought this belief up-to-date when he said:--"In my judgment the last few hundred millions may win this war. This is my opinion. The first hundred millions our enemies can stand just as well as we can, but the last they cannot, thank God; and therefore I think cash is going to count much more than we possibly imagine at the present moment. We have won with the silver bullets before. We financed Europe in the greatest war we ever fougLt. and that is what won. Of course British tenacity and British courage always come in, and they always witl: but let us remember that British told, too. We must work as partners and work together —all parties, all sections of the people, the Government and municipalities —until we carry the old country through to a triumphant conclusion. ''

THE Royal Commission mountains continue after severe labour to bring forth ridiculous mice. With some prolixity the Shipping Freights Commission has told us what we knew before, and the Education Cimmission will do the same after it has discreetly taken time to go through the form of deliberation. If this appointment of Commissions and engagement of experts to report on various matters did not prove, so costly, the people might derive some amusement from the process.

IT is more than possible that the advocates of Bible in Schools will use the reported declaration of the Pope as an argument in support of their efforts to destroy our splendid education system which is enabling us to build up a nation in which there is but little sectarian friction, and a people whose morality is higher than that of any people in the world. But it should be obvious that if a portion of the Bible is read in the household every day, as is said to have been recommended by the Pope, then not only will all the alleged objects of the Bible in Schools League be realised, but the sacred writings will not be degraded to the status of a school book in the hands of a taskmaster.