CURSE OF MILITARISM

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 476, 28 April 1920, Page 5

CURSE OF MILITARISM

At a general meeting of the Canterbury Women's Institute on April 17, regret was expressed that following so closely on the "war to end war," it shoulud have teen considered necessary to form a New Zealand Leartue to oppose any decrease of irtf]iifi.T]\-ni. The follovitivj resolutions wiji-) u»i:ini;;!CU?lr p3~SL'd:—That. iniJ-it.D.n;-:m iiß3 i.h i <ihr.ohit)?ly no hopo for the world; itn brnniiscs aro not. only illusory, Imt deliberately mendacious. The lessons of the war to end war prove conclusively that riot one professed object has been achieved but that, on the contrary, misery and disease unparalleled-have been , produced, and rebellion and revolution fomented. The only resultant from milftnrißm is the spirit of revolt which it universally stimulates, when ib? aun.i and objeeli to bolsUnr Copitalism and lirip?riaii.-ni .'ire rotil-is-jd Iα- vho people:-;. (2) Th.T true patriot'inm do all hi its power (p era-:icaif> '.he cancer of and io.i'oatCT serifroua u:id liumiuo relations with ail other nmioii:). Failing which, Nesr Zetiland will inevita.biy be overuilsmi by tho overthrow which ujilitarism invariably inilcts un all that pursue it.