154 Hoiv to Pay for iJic War 



idea of playing second fiddle in the European concert to 

 please the Labour Congress men who have remained at 

 home to vote, leaving others to do the fighting. 



We say this because strenuous times are ahead of us, 

 and the nation who goes even a shade slacker than the 

 pacemaker will get ridden down, and all chances of his 

 winning the race to gain the commercial supremacy of the 

 world will be lost to the best organized and most strenuous 

 people. From what we can gather from the speeches of 

 some of the stay-at-homes, if their advice is followed we 

 shall become very parochial in our ideas. This will never 

 do. As every man who is not a slacker is to-day in the 

 field fighting his country's battles, so should the majority 

 of the same men continue the fight for the commercial 

 supremacy of the Empire after peace is proclaimed. If 

 the girls have done so well in the few months they have 

 been at work, how much better will they become, those 

 who do not marry, some years ahead. Again, when the 

 men come back a little later on, as they will be doing, just 

 when living will be so costly, they will want to push the 

 women out from the work they have been so loyally 

 performing, and then what chance will they (the women) 

 have, since about two million of them are unlikely to 

 marry and they will have to earn their living the same 

 as the men ? Going back to the Germanization of Latin 

 America, either directly or through the United States, our 

 Consul at Pernambuco (Mr. H. E. Dickie) pointed out the 

 other day, when calling attention to the United States 

 commercial activity in the southern continent, that the 

 establishment of American banks " down south " is only 

 the thin end of the wedge, and it is significant also to note 

 the natural sequence to the first step, viz., the systematic 

 training by the banks of young men for the express purpose 

 of exploiting the Brazilian and Argentine (our own pet 

 Argentina) markets. Therefore we say, Wahe tip, England, 

 and do likewise. 



