AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11188, 2 March 1915, Page 5

AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.

NATIONAL SOLIDARITY WANTED. GREAT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE PROBARLE. London, March 1. Mr Lloyd George had a great reception, He questioned whether the people of Britain realised the necessity for the war. Belgium, once comfortably well-..off, was. now a waste. The German army, like a wild bealt, had fastened its daws deep into the -beautiful land of France. The vigilant naval watchdog alone prevents the beast leaping on to our shores. We are conducting the war as if there were no war. There is danger that Britain by neglect, sloth and heedlessnesa may prolong the country’s agony and endanger the completeness of the triumph. Employers, workers and the general public must act together or we will delay the Imperial victory. The spirit wherein Germany is making potato bread is not laughable, but is to be dreaded more than von Hindenburg’s strategy. It is the spirit wherein a country should meet a great emergency. We must be equally willing to surrender the comforts and even the'necessities ol life. The employers and workers on the Clyde have been spending a fortnight disputing, but we cannot afford a leisurely methods There is much to be said for and against compulsory arbitration, but during the war the Government ought to have power to settle disputes. If toe workmen ought to get more let the Government find it out and give it to them. If not, the,(linen must not throw down their tools. The country cannot afford ife: Regulations restricting output ought to be suspended in war time when battles are being fought , in the workshops of .Britain and France equally with those on the battlefields. He was sorry to say some workers were shirking duty .in this emergency, bnt a small minority can,throw the works out of gear. Russia, knowing her deficiencies, had herself together and stopped idrink. France had abolished absinthe. The British Government did not-propose anything drastic but had great powers and meant to use them discreetly and fearlessly. We are at war. It is the greatest war ever fought by this or any other country. The future of the human race for genera!Tons depends on the result. If Germany be triumphant she will be the dictator of the international policy of the world. France is now fighting to shake off the nightmare which has followed her since 1870, vvhen she cowered in terror before this monster. Germany made this quarrel with the same cool calculation as she makes a new gun. If she is victorious we will not he the vassals of the Germans with. the noblest songs, sciences and philosophies, but of a Germany which speaks through the raucons voice of Krupps’ artillery seeks to quench every spark of freedom in rivers of blood.