SOCIALISTS AND WAR.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5729, 5 October 1914, Page 3

SOCIALISTS AND WAR.

KAISERISM CONDEMNED

BRITISH ACTION APPROVED

Among Socialists throughout the world Robert Blatchford, editor of t be Clarion, is highly respected. He is one who hopes that some day the whole world will be war-weary, and that at hist a great peace will be among the nations. Meanwhile he sees an obstacle —the sabre-rattling Kaiserism. Therefore Blatchford writes in his paper of 14th August:

"Kaiserism must go; autocracy must go; Caeasrism and Bismarckiam must go; the murderous desire for European domination must go.

"They must go at the point of the bayonet; in no other way ean they be driven back to the hell from which they came. "This war is more than a war of self-preservation for the British and the French. It is a war of the democracies of a continent against the tyranny of the Bceptre and the sworld. "Under the unfortunate circumstances, it were mere folly to talk of peace until the German War Lords and their deluded people have drunk deep of the horrors of war. No save the grim logic of defeat will produce a lasting ell'ect upon Lhe mad swashbucklers who have plunged a continent into blood and ruin. Not until the arrogant vanity of the Prussian bullies has been humbled,and their power for future mischief broker, will it be possible for Fiance or Britain, or their allies, to slacken grips upon the sword. "Wars will be avoidable after this war we may hope; but Kaiserism, Prussian Jack-bootery, and the fiendish drill-books and devil's bibles of Clausewitz and Bismarck will, ws may hope, be avoided, as we avoid hydrophoba." Another wellknown Socialist, Mr H. G. Wells, has declared: "Every sword that is drawn against Germany now is a sword drawn for peace."