Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-01-15 | Page 4 | The next Move

THE NEXT MOVE. Military conscription will be au accomplished ac-complished fact in Cheat iiiitain within a few days. Xext will come economic conscription. j When Lord Kitchener tells Mr. Hen- i dcrson that not (only will the govern-) ment require all the men, married and ! unmarried, obtainable under Lord Der- ' by 's plan, but (350,000 more, it means that the war is to last more than a year longer, and that means that more billions bil-lions will be required to finauce the conflict. '- I Great Britain seems determine?! to j win the war at whatever cost, but this can be done only if the nation is prepared pre-pared to sacrifice her- wealth as well as her men. The next move, therefore, will be a mobilization of all her resources re-sources throughout the empire. The landed in teres ts at home must turn over their riches. The investments abroad, those investments which have enabled the rich English families to 1 e vy tribute on a g r eat part of the world, must be cast into the melting pat. In a way it wilt be a thrilling spectacle. spec-tacle. The richest empire the world has seen must and doubtless will stake everything on the fortune of war. The colonies as well as the mother country j will give their fortunes in an effort to save the empire, and at the risk of j losing all. "If Great Britain obtains 4.000,000; soldiers she should have enough for all i purposes, even if the war last two more ' years. And at the end of that time i which i'ouutrv will have a bigger army? ! C j And the question of how to get enough i soldiers having been solved, the government govern-ment must now turn its attention to the question of the ways and means of subjecting the wealth of the empire ' to com pu Isory service. j