Show F 4 KIPLING SAYS BRITISH I MUST WIN OR L r- r rr r F WILL r r r DE U t v 7 s N ON Sept 8 1 15 a. a m m.- m. m. It It It is isY is not ot Y conceivable lo that we Wc will fail faU If Wo wo-do wo do f aU H the lights of ot fre freedom e dom g go o out over over th the whole world T This was the statement of g the author in a a. stirring ad ad- dr dress to a mass meeting at Brighton w ero an immense crowd had gathered in the dome to listen to s speeches P in sup eup- port of ot Lord crusado for forre re recruit recruits ruita The Tho meeting was presided over by the tho lord mayor of Brighton I seconded by Herbert Samuel president oJ of the r i ic 10 local c al g government over board Mr Hr Kipling Kiplin said r Through Through no fault or wish rish of ours wo we are ara 0 at war with Germany the tho power which owes its existence to three well roll thought out wars the power which for t the e last twenty ants years has devoted it it- s se elf to anil adi organizing preparing for thIs war the Jhc power which is now fight fight- fighting i ing nJ t to conquer the civilized world f For For the last two generations the tho mans in their books lectures speeches and schools have been carefully taught that nothing le less s than this world word contest was waste the tho object of their preparations reparations and their sacrifices They have prepared carefully and sacrificed greatly II W We e must have men and men and men if we with our allies arc nrc to check th the onrush of organized barbarism lIa Have ve no illusions We are uro dealing with a strong and magnificently equipped enemy who whoso whose e avowed aim nim is 15 our com complete completo leto destruction The rhe violation violation viola viola- tion of Bel Belgium ium the attack attach on ou France and the defense against Russia arc are only steps by the tho WR way The rho Germans Germans' real as she has always told us Is i England and and England's wealth tra trade e and world wide possessions If If f you von assume for an m instant that that attack will be successful England will not be reduced as some people t I say Oi aY to tu the tho rank of a R second rate into power but we shall cease to exist as a nation Wo o 0 shall shaH become an nu outlying province of Germany to be administered with what severity German safety and interest interest in in- terest teres t require H We We arm against such a fate fat We 4 enter into a new life in iu which all ail the facts of war that we had bad put behind or forgotten for the past hundred years rears havo havA returned to the front and ana test us as they tt tested our fathers It will he hea a 3 long lont anti and a hard road beset ith ith difficulties difficulties dif ail and di discouragements but hut we tread to together and wo we will tread trend it together to gether ether to the tilt end Our petty 50 social al divisions and barriers bar bar- ha have c been heen swept away at the outset out- out set so of ot our bur mighty struggle All An the of oC our life lifo of si six weeks ago go are arc dead C We Ve have but one interest now and anal that touches the tho naked heart n of oi c everyman rj in this island and iu in the tho empire cm it If wo we are arc to win the right for our our- c find 1 for freedom to exist on ear Clr earh j cn c nan man must t offer him for that 1 i s servi i e c and lId that sacrifice c II l |