sentences:  It contained lines critical of soldiers, describing them as "sordid killers who murder for a fee", "hog-souled and dirty-handed", and "fools and flunkeys".The poem was republished on a number of occasions during World War I – in January 1915 by the "Labor Call", the official ALP newspaper in Victoria, and later by McDougall's opponents at the 1915 Grampians by-election and 1917 federal election.On 13 November 1919, "Melbourne Punch" re-published excerpts from the poem, contrasting them with the ALP's election manifesto which praised soldiers.