The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27

warm Undertaking and other heavy
Garments because the fighting Is go.
ing to continue all winter long. pos
sibly in the upland country of
France, Germany, Austria and Rus
STA. These men have also all got t.
be armed. They must not only have
rifles, but horses. artillery. automo-
bile Transports, motorcycle machine
guns, aeroplaneS and the thousand
and one things that go to make up a
complete army must be provided for
each brigade before it is ready to go To
! the front.
England has never before made a
complete automobile engine. Most of
the parts have heretofore come from
Germany. But England has got to
make them now ENGLAND is one
great armory and drill ground.
1 shall! conclude this letter with
an account of an interview / had with
a membe Of the bin today /
was introduced to him by an English
barOnet we'll known in America. |
found him a tall. Stalwart young man
with a clear cut face. His whole ap-
pearance suggested a young English
clergyman OF the athletic school. a
man who could play a good bat at
cricket or ride in the front at the
hunt.
| had come to interview him. and
speedily realized that | was being in
t~erviewed. He first, flattering me,
wanted to know what / hough about
it. Then he wanted to know all about
the sentiment in America. He espe-
cially inquired hout President Will
son. and proved that he had been fol-
lowing every move made by the Presi-
dent with the closest attention. He
inquired about Mr.. Roosevelt. whom
he recognized as a friend of the
Kaiser's, and laughingly alluded to
the dose of blood and iron which the
d~iscOverer Of the River Of Doubt had
given England in his GuildhaH speech
he parried a remark which l made
Can Learn From America.
about Mr.. Bryan.
FINALLY my Cabinet Minister was
ready to make a few observations
W have much to learn from
| America" he said. Il have been read
ing what you had to go through II
the civil war. ! have been reading
how you had to create q great indus
try before you could even clothe your
soldiers. l have been reading how
both North and South had to create
| enormous armies and then go OF
/ creating more enormous armies, anc
how they had to arm. train, clothe ant
! sustain them each part Of the countr,
l within its WI borders.
AS you say, a million men Wer'
/. lost in hat conflict. You had severa
L millions of men under arms at on'
time. 1t may be that what we hav'
r to go through is a much greater tasl
4 than that. We are straining ever,
| effort to put a million men in tn
s field. It is certainly the idea Of tn
t government hat we hould have tia
n force operating as one command i
r Europe. We shall keep that millioi
Of men in the field. when once tn
first million goes forward 10 fight. Gu
o losses have been very heavy. Blu
g don't you see. no matter how heay
q the losses, n matter how great TT
sacrifice, no matter what the back
set. all Englishmen feel that this is
n fight for national existence and Ia
tional security, and it must go FOL
n ward until that national existence
d secure and national peace is mad
{ certain beyond d doubt."
n had come to ask this Cabinet Mir
lister about the possibility of peaf
-e proposals being considered, but l l.
RS without asking the question.