WHY NAVIES CANNOT HALT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13753, 19 June 1913, Page 2

WHY NAVIES CANNOT HALT.

"Every big gun Hhaf goes'off'blows into smithereens tho unkeep of a family," writos Afr. Israel Zangwill. "What we call Pence is thus really a sort of Pankhurst-war, writ large, in which property is destroyed on a colossal scale, if not life. Were we, therefore, to follow the economic, argument, 1 am not sure it would lead us to wipe out the German navy at once, while it isvstill vincible, rather than face tho animal destruction of scores of millions of money which Germany imposes upon us. Which conclusion being dearly a suggestion of tho War-Devil, it ensues that the Angel of Peace is not Norman.

"And verily the Angel of Peace is Hebrew, and Hebrew only. It is Isaiah with his groat vision of a brotherhood of toilers, it is Jesus with

His quiet scientific doctrine that whpso takes tho sword shall perish by it. 'And they beat their swords into ploughshares.' This is the only scrapping that will be effective in tho end —not of sword in super-sword, Dreadnought into Super-Dreadnought.

"Mr. Churchill offers a truce, some reduction of armaments, a Sabbatical year. But it is a forlono hope. Germany can no more disentaglo herself than England. The workmen are engaged, tho dockyards must bo fed. Nations aro made for navies, not navies for nations. Would you throw out of gear tho great industry of Death—that staple of Life!"

■Hazen had been ruled out of order Mr William Northrup, an Ontario Conservative, moved that tho Minister for Marine bo heard in preference to Si*.* Wilfrid. Tho'motion was put and carried amid a stormy scono, and Liberals

them proceeded to shout down Mr Hftzcn. Numerous motions were submitted and disallowed by the Speaker, who vainly appealed to members to restrain themselves. The uproar becamo worse, and with excited members shaking their fists at each othor thero seemed every prospect of a riot, but tho arrival of the police was responsible for the restoration of,comparative calm.