Snapshots from “War-What For?”

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 4

Snapshots from “WarWhat For?”

WHAT WAR DOES.

War spills the'blood"of"slain soldiers. War spills the blood : of hon-combat-iants. War weakens the blood of soldiers who are smitten with befouling fevers and whose wounds and sores fester unattended on the battlefield or are illattended in rude military hospitals. Disease, in war, strikes with death four times as many soldiers as are killed with lead and steel. War weakens the national blood by selecting the strong-blooded for slaughter, thus reversing Nature's method' of selecting the weaker-blooded for destruction. War tends to open opportunity in the struggle for existence tor the relatively weaker-blooded to multiply in disproportionate decree. : . War, it is estimated, prevents on the average the birth of one child per soldier slaughtered on the battlefield, or serving three years or more in peace or war. . War weakens the blood of the nation by worse than wasting enormous supplies of food material, and thus underfeeding those who toil. War weakens the national blood by tainting the blood of great numbers of soldiers, and through ■; these tainting the blood of women arid children with venereal diseases contracted in unusual

degree near the barracks and durng war and immediately following war.