DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13840, 19 August 1918, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Second in influence to the President of the United States, but to him only—say the American [tapers—is the President of Hit 1 American federation of Labour. To this high place has been elected year after year for ;S0 years, and lias been re-elected this year, Mr Samuel (Jiomnvrs. Opponents of conscription or advocates of "peace by negotiation" may have, heard of him. By invitation, Mr liompers recently addressed the Canadian Legislature on the subject of the war. Mindful of the Hag above him on Canadian soil, he spoke of Britain as "the mother country of democracy." Britain, he said, "had responded to the call of honour with an alacrity which had sent a thrill to the hearts and consciences of liberty-loving men all the world over." Then, on the duty of persisting: "This enterprise in which we are now engaged is no longer to be described as a war. It is the most wonderful crusade ever entered upon by men in the whole history of the world'. No nobler cause, no nobler undertaking, has ever commanded the intelligent and self-saeritieing nature of men. I have an abiding faith that the cause of justice and right cannot die. 1 would rather drop while fighting for the right than not to tight at all." By the side of this veteran the men who pose as the political guides and instructors of Labour in New Zealand are infantile prattlers. They understand the war as it might be understood in a kindergarten.

Labour and the War.