SECOND WAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16432, 2 January 1918, Page 5

SECOND WAR.

FOR INDEPENDENCE. AX AUSTRALIANS COMMENT. Sir Goorgo Reid, in the course of some remarks to an American, interviewer, sa'.d:— "America is fighting her seoond war for independence. But to-day she figh-if Ijoi only for ln_rseii. but for the independence oi the world. It is a glorious thing thai the s-oul of the nation ha* comi! oat at iast. The United States for many years Las set the world an ■sample of peace.. She has been de•ta.hcxl from the rest of the •world in lier serenity, and greatly to her discredit, because she lias looked upon tho snuggiing nations of the world with a benevolent, but nevertheless an indifferent, <ye._ "Amerc.fs coming into this war ai tho present moment has brought the two democracies, England and the United Stai-es. more closely tofjather than ever before. Even these few months of American collaboration has .shown England the he-art of America, and America the heart of England, J more clearly than has been don® dur- ; ing any of the hundred years of peace. J Yon can have no caricatures now aßonfc |twi>tinL' the British lion's tail. | "England's Tommy Atkins, considar- ; ing his Handicaps, is a wonderful man 'of war to-dny. The English workingin.nn iioror Jns !ku? a fair elm nee. Tba feudal principle and the slow course of Krglish -education have kept him down. Tix* national _ grant for education wart . inade only eighty year l ; ago. Seventy years ago only half the people who : got. married in England could sign their names to the contract-. That was the state of things when America, waited war for independence. England git. more out of this war than Aracn'm over cot. The inspirations i from it moved the, world. And we .ire ; Just a« fm» as you are to-cnav. The ; form of orr demorary is different, 1 lint flip spirit, is the same. Tt is the spirit which hfs mad« Tommy Atkins, a quiet sort, of a fellow in his trade, meet a supreme of which haw* corns* the most glorious qualities of human nature-"