Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-20 | Page 3 | Lloyd-George will Soon Give out the Figures

obllcation of ?r all-Nd1e4 man to defrnd his country should be ron- enl ilurlnK UM war into a oMIs-tioii. Thr Riivf i nmeiit la full)' alive to the pMOMSUgr of jtlvlnir h definite def-inite toail nd undue delay mlht t-1 dlsa.'irous: on tbr other hand, undue pret'lplt-ilou would be equally .llc -' troua. The Issue Is one of fart and not one of pin(4 If Huure In ih i matter van win with the voluntary syntt ni It would be folly to proviake a controversy In the middle of the world war by attempts to substitute a totally different method. On the other hand. If figures demand de-mand tlutt the voluutarv' system lias exhausted ita utility, not bine hut legal le-gal pressure ran irtve Britain the amdes i.'-ensary to defend Ms honor and hs e Euroiie from a triumph of mllitarv despotism. 1 have not yet heard of a single man who would resist re-sist compulsion under these circumstances. circum-stances. The men who say they would raM this expedient, even If jroven necessary to save this country coun-try and the freedom of the world, have not et appeared in the arena. If they do 1 predict their protectors would not be found among the working work-ing classes. It Is all a question of ascertainable fact. Why all this premature anger? The determining facta liave not yet been published. When they are sifted . ' I published, the advocates of one view or the other will find all their fervor and ferocity wasted in attacking attack-ing a position which, they then will discover, they ought to defend. IVt tt be settled in n spirit worthy of that. I gravity. I withdraw nothing I liavc said as to the seriu jsnei-s of the position. LLOYD-GEORGE WILL SOON GIVE OUT THE FIGURES I Bv International News Sen-ice. I,ONDON. Sept. 19. Replying lo a con-! con-! stituent. I.loyd -George has written the j following letter: You sa v the govern mert ought to ?ive the nation the lead in answering the (location as to whether the moral