El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-03-02
MUST
SAVE TO SUPPORT
BROTHERS AT WAR,
SOLDIER IS FIRST
Kitchener Appeals For
Home Scrimping to
Ease Trenchmen
NATIONAL
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
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great meeting was held in the Guild
hall here today to inaugurate a ma.
tional savings campaign.
Premier Asquith was to have ad-
dressed the meeting and to have
moved the principal resolution. but
he was suffering from the loss Of his
voice and was unable to attend.
Lord Kitchener In his speech.
said:
we want just as many as we can
get as soldiers Either the popnla-
tion must 90 short OF many things
or the army must 60 short of NUM-.
lions and other Indispensable things.
Are civilians prepared to let their
brothers In the trenches endure
h~ardships, while they are not ready
Ito make small sacrifices Of harder
work, increased effort and increased
economy?
If we employ less labor, we re-
leaEe more men for fighting.
III we import less for consumption
we lessen the difficulties OF sea
transport
Lord Kitchener appealed for econ
omy In everything, particularly in
coal, ~foodstuffs. intoxicating liquors,
petrol and oil, coffee and tea and to-,
bacc0, and clothing Of all kinds, es.
pecialIy wooden articles.
Both economy and productive en-.
ergy we're required Of all workers, as
both, he said, were equal in imports
ance.
Lord Kitchener urged his hearers
to consider the fact that the war was
a struggle for economic exhaustion
as well as a conflict Of armies, and
that considered from this aspect 1t
directly concerned every man. wom-
an and child in the nation.
@As q representative OF the army
IN the field he continued, y want
to appeal on their behalf to the civil
army at home. Whether the army In
the field, who are entirely dependent
upon the civilian army for food
equipment and munitions, can get
those things in sufficient quantities,
depends absolutely and entirely on
whether every man and woman at
home shows the utmost energy IN
production and the utmost economy
in consumption"
Every Man Needed.
We are bound to take as soldiers
every man that can be spared, Lord
Kitchener continued. WE want an
~unceasing supply Of guns, shells and
munitions as well as very large
supplies of other requirements-f food,
clothing and transport. Moreover.
we want to provide our allies as
much as possible with these require
ments.
~The question is how all these
can be done at the same time
and how we can take millions OF
men from the workshops and farms,
and yet provide for all the needs Of
civil population and the army MILL
ions in the field. If those left behind
work only as hard as they did before
and all the consumers consume as
they did before the war, our problem
will be insoluble.
"fIitherto we have filled the gap
BY vast importations, but the chan
cellOr Of the excheuuer and other
financial authorities Impress us with
HE vital necessity Of reducing our
imports. The dilemma Is that either
he civilians must go short OF things
which they are accustomed to in
peace time, or the armies must 60
Of munitions and other indls
supplies, Which is 1t to
Mr.. McKenna said the country
bear the burden Of Increased
AVIATION to provide means for carry
ng on the war, aa there were not
many nations able to lend Great
Britain In either money or goods. He
declared that If consumption con-
inued at the present rate there
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