The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-24
Great Britain's Problem

The people of Great Britain have at last awakened t
he seriousness of the problem that confronts them, and /
his connection it is very probable that the Americans ar
ew in number who have any conception of the actual slit
in the united kingdom. In reading the London OF
erver one finds that two things are uppermost in the mind
t the thinkers of England-the necessity for a contlnuanc
f the present coalition government and the organization c
much larger army, with CONSUMPTION ever IN the back
round. From the Observer of June ~ the Iribun
uotes:
If the coalition is to last in its present shape the
national government must succeed during the next
few months in organizing the mightiest democratic
effort in all history. For failure to rise to the top OF
that task there could be no forgiveness. This is
sun-clear to the ministers themselves, and we are sat
isfied that the signs are good. 1t is not too much to
say that the issue of the war, the whole future cond1-
tions and temper of civilization, depend upon the eff
forts that Britain has now to put forth. There has
never yet been known a transformation OF a whole
peoples life to compare with what is now under
taken.
et the foremost figure. His %animating and concilia-
tory genius we are convinced will work wonders.
He has found the clinching phrase: have to
organize victory and not take it for granted. Now,
as always, he prefers to take his risk by doing too
much rather than too little, and doing it too soon
rather than too late. That is just what we need.
The curse of government departments, shocked by
ANYTHING far in advance or excess of the usual, is the
answer: 1T can't be DONE" If Mr.. Lloyd George
had not set himself to expunge that phrase from Our
national vocabulary it might have been the epltaph
of the allies and the empire.
All other efforts will be thwarted unless we have
enrolled or registered during the next few months all
the men we require for our vast armies up to the end
of the war. In Our profound conviction secuted
when first expressed last autumn, but confirmed by
events-we shall need 100000 men for the f1eld IN
Flanders and the east, with as many more behind
them. Lord Kitchener would render an inestimable
service inestimable in its effect upon neutral opln-
ion as we'll as upon Our allies and the country ITSELF
if he would call at once for another million men or
more to be raised within a limited time like Mr..
Lloyd Georges special industrial army of munltlon
workers. We can no longer afford to have a single
hours delay in speeding up our fighting strength to
the maximum. Nearly two months ago we suggest
ed the National Register now at last to be introduced
in some shape. We have endeavored to avoid all con.
troversy IN compulsion. The National Register
ought to make compulsion unnecessary. The ne
cessitv of life and death is that we should have men
enough enrolled during the next few months to double
our forces both in Flanders and at the Dardanelles.
No conviction of assured victory is more utterly i'm
portant than this. The nation looks to Lord kitch-
ener to crown his work by new measures no less bold
in dealing with the problem of men than are the meas
ures of Mr.. Lloyd George and the chancellor OF the
exchequer in graphing with munitions and money.
Gold mining is the most fascinating, safe, lucrativ
nd independent occupation in the world, says the Rands
urg Miner. The desire for possession Of metallic wealt
the one great incentive to progress. 1t IS an lndustr
rom which civilization has received at different times it
reatest impulse, and the records of history prove tina