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here, while he is doinfj the heavy mental and physical 

 spade-work abroad. The borough employees and the 

 working men have had their wages raised since the War 

 started and still complain, whilst the tropical worker is 

 receiving 25, 50, or even 75 per cent, less income, and still 

 goes on his way uncomplaining, his only anxiety being to 

 last out or, if secure, to obtain the shipping necessary to 

 carry on his share of the nation's trade and so keep the 

 exports going and thus help pay for the War. Surely it is 

 the old tale of the two mule teams during a sugar campaign 

 in the Tropics, when all is bustle and hum to bring in the 

 canes to be ground. The load, to save time and trouble, 

 is taken from the carl of the jibbing team and piled up on 

 to that of the willing animals, who thereby, because they are 

 willing, have to draw the double load, whilst it is quite 

 likely that the useless jibbers, pushed aside as a nuisance, 

 even get into the stables first and have the pick of the feed 

 because the others are foolish enough to be willing, and so 

 are worked overtime to make up for the absence of the 

 jibbing team. 



The leading papers support us in these views, which are 

 put forth in no party spirit and are even more noticeable 

 in some points in America than here. The London West- 

 minstey Gazette, most democratic of dailies, perhaps, hit the 

 nail hardest on the head when it told us (on the front page 

 of its issue of August 18) that: "We must so mobilize 

 our military and naval forces as not to demol)ilize our 

 industries beyond the point necessary for our credit "... 

 to do this " We are obliged to divide our man-power 

 between three equally important services — with the Army, 

 with the Navy, and service in the industries which must be 

 kept going if the War is to be financed " (italics ours). 

 Napoleon was unable to understand " that he was being 

 beaten by our imperturbable habit of going about our business 

 while he was draining the life-blood of his people . 

 In the long war of endurance on which we are now 

 eipbarked, the industrial role of Great Britain is as 

 important now as it was a hundred years ago, and we 

 should do far more harm than good to the Allied cause if 

 we destroyed it or gravely compromised it by withdrawing 

 too many men from industry in order to put them into the 

 fighting force." 



All this is very good — on paper — but what has our 

 Government done, or what is it doing, to put it into 

 practice ? If we are to go ahead we must be just as well 

 as generous to all the taxpayers at home and abroad, and 



