AFTER THE MEAN MAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1915, Page 2

AFTER THE MEAN MAN.

GODS EXAMPLES ALREADY SET

MR. GEORGE ELLIOT'S CRUSADE.

ONE FIRM WORKIXC! AT UNION WAGES. OTHER GENTSROUS OFFERS. A quarter of a million! That is the sum Mr. George Elliot wants to begiu with- and he intends to got it. The reason why the Auckland Patriotic Fund should show a credit of jC'250.000 wan explained by Mr. Elliot in an inter view yesterday, llm way of putting the position was forceful and vigorous. It was likewise convincing. Mr. Klliot is mainly out after the shirker and the mean man, and what he had to say about those people at a meeting of the j Patriotic Committee yesterday after | noon may be read in another column, j l'robahly those people have not yet Jia.i time to recover their breath. Hut already men who have helped are indicating their willingness to help again and to help substantially. To several of these offers of help Mr. Klliot referred this morning. "I know that the right people are going to join in thin fn«h campaign," said Mr. Klliot. "and this morning I had one or two striking instances, which htp well worth quoting. Vir«t and foremost is the offer which h business man has made to mc on behalf of him j self and Ins sons. They run a. business j which is sound nnd well established. From now until this time. next, year father and sons offer to work at union wageH. They nsk us to appoint an auditor to go through their books every three months, and a cheque for the, hind will lie forwarded in accordance! with the auditor's indication of their j net profits. The firm refuses to allow , its name to be mentioned just at. pre- | Rent, at any rate. That. U -the kind of ( | action -that talks. \nothrr man was lin to see mc this morning. He is not one of the big men of Auckland, but he' | has already given freely, and he told I that he w"a« prepared to sen,l along a | | cheque for £ 1 .000 the moment it was wanted. These arc the men who realise ] what our responsibilities arc. Surely , it will not be a difficult matter to mak.the others the men who have not given i realise lhe need far giving fively. j There are a thousand graves α-i i;aJlipoli. ] Those -heroes cry out to us to provide for their dependents. That fry is surely \ more eloquent than any sy>eci-h any liv ing man enn make. In this town there are citizens worth anything up to half a : million , -who have given, perhaps, £.">OO. | What is .t'.VXV \nd some have given le.se than that. They are n<>t going to' the. fron:. The whole ..f liie.ir assets] thrt*e men are defending. More men are "wanted, and ihfy must em-cmmgo those men to go by proving th.lt they are willing to dn liicir share in under , taking for the raainten ' an.-c of mothers, wives, or children.! Already there are in ho4, v , ta l 4,000 New Zealand wounded. What are we going , t.> do for them! T.> provide for them i< j our duty and our privilege. This morn Rcntativr* met mc. They are deter mined to leave no stone unturned to make this financial crusade n success, nnd n success it is going to be." —-