THE MURDERERS

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 521, 11 May 1915, Page 7

THE MURDERERS

These vigorous and burning lines (from the pen of Sir Owen (Seaman, editor of 'Punch') are addressed "to t^eir master" : — If I were asked what gives one most amaze ' Among your signs of mental aberration, I should select, for several curious traits, Your lack of coirjmonplace imagination. You seem to think, if once you won the day, You justify your means; it won't much matter What laws of man you broke to get your way, What rules of chivalry you chose to shatter, Is that yoUr reading in the glass of Time? And has your swollen head become so rotten That you suppose, success could conceal crime, Or murder in its triumph be forgotten? Man shall not live, 0 King, by bread ' alone, .. Though spiced with blood of innocent lives for leaven j He must have 'breath of honor round him •blown, As vital as the very air of Heaven. What should it serve you, though your end were won, And earth were msde a mat to wipe you boot on, If every decent race beneath the *un Spits for contempt upon the mmie of Teuton ?.