COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.
The day will come when New Zealand will adopt a system of compulsory (military training-on the lines suggest-' ■ed by the Prime Minister and the sooner it comes the better'for the dominion. There is no logical escape from the contention that every healthy man ought to he available for the defence, of his country. Sir William Russell put the case in a nutshell when he said..to a reporter that if the people had claims upon the .State the State, had claims upon them, and that the defence of home, family, and country was every man’s first duty. The idea that the compulsory training of young. men would burden the country with a huge standing army- and would oppress it with the spirit' of militarism is very wide of the mark. There is a vast difference between'- a system under which; every man is.taught "the- elements of military Avork and the system under which the best manhood of the country is withdrawn from industry and commerce and converted into a costly fighting ma- ‘ chine .—“Lyttelton Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2471, 8 April 1909, Page 2
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178COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2471, 8 April 1909, Page 2
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