THE PRINCIPLE APPROVED. t

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13929, 12 June 1909, Page 6

THE PRINCIPLE APPROVED.

Major M alone moved a resolution, "That 111 the opinion of this meeting 110 svsteni of defenco is satisfactory which is not based on itniversal military training- and service, and thut this meeting is in favour of such service. »nd tiroes tho Government to adopt it." He pointed out that war was the only arbiter of nations, and only by war could disputes between Tiaiions he settled. It was illogical and ( 1 uel, but it helped in trie making of 11 people It had been rightly said that i ust «ar was the foundation of virtues \ prreat writer had said that war and \irtuo went together, while peace and vice went hand in hand. Major Malono nomled out the absurdity of the idea hold by some people that the navy \\ as

the first lino of detonco and tho only one. No navy had o\or completed its victories without an army The speaker pointed out how e:is\ it was for a lar^o foreign army to be landed in England and for England'h food supplies to be cut off. And how would New Zealand fare then v For a country to fi^ht in her own defence she nniit be prcpaied for the fray. England and the colonies were not prepared.