KILL IT NOW.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 2

KILL IT NOW.

MR GOMPERS ON MILITARISM

Mr Gompers, speaking at the American Luncheon Club in London in September, said it had been justly said that we ought not to continue the war one minute longer than is necessary, that we ought not to sacrifice any human life more than was essential to obtain peace. But the war must, not be ended prematurely only to bring on the world some other bloody holocaust.

" We in America," he goes on, " will contribute all our man power and all the wealth that we can and make every sacrifice in order that the fight may be carried to a triumphant ending. (Cheers.) I have appealed to my fellow workers of Great Butain to do their job here. They have done wonderfully; but this is a time that tries men's souls. The men at the front are willing to make the supreme sacrifice, and it is our bounden duty to them to make the greatest physical sacrifice possible that this war shall not be lost or endangered.

"This is the time for service, for grit, to do and to dare. They will not take me in the army or the navy, but they do want men who can organise. I have been told that I am not bereft of that quality, and no one has ever yet told me that I am a damn fool. So I am giving whatever there is in me to help to organise for my countrymen and for the Allies

"The spark of liberty has been fanned into a flame, and, I fervently believe, will remain in the hearts of Englishmen and Americans and Frenchmen so that they will take up the battlecry and win freedom for all, I would rather make the fight now a decisive fight, and kill imperialism and autocracy and militarism with this one fell b\ow that we are delivering." (Cheers).