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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 December 1915, Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMI3EK 23, 1-Jls "THE NATION'S BUSINESS." From the Financial Foal, of Canada TJio Chronicle Las received, a leaflet that sots out in striking manner the opinions oi Sir Herbert Holt (formed aner personal observations at the front, in France; concerning Groat .Britain's war problem. Sir Herbert Holt is president oi the itoyal Bank, director of many industries, railroad builder, and, along with James Koss, responsible lor carrying the CanadianPacific Kail way across tho Prairies and over the Kooky Mountains. Sir Herbert was in England and at the battle front in France a.t the same time as the Canadian Prime 'Minister. He deserves great credit lor his courage in do ing his duty to the Empire .by expressing his views without fear or favour. Such a man is a. true patriot. In an interview he says: We have the balance of power; we have the finest men at the front that you could find in the world—men who are lit for anything and 50 per cent superior than their foes; but until a strong man is found in England to control the situation and control the situation and; direct the course of (business end of the war —a ■man of iron, absolutely implacable and a;ble to resist the corroding effects of politics, which eat their sinister way into the public life of the Mother Country—we will never win this war. lam convinced that there is the most tragical non-understanding of the vast and terrible issues of the war; second, that we have the finest fighting force it is possible to imagine, and that their efforts are largely nulliiied through lack of proper support; third, that there has been the most fatal muddling as respects the business end of tho war; fourth that one man must emerge—one man who will be who will take hold of the threads of interests and manipulate them, not interfering with the military leaders, but doing everything in tho way of organization as well it not better than the Germans have done it—a man who will be disinterested and sink all personal perferences, which has not been done in England, even among those 'higli up'; fifth, tiiat the overseas dominions, which have contributed of thoir 'best, :iid which have enlarged views, as contradistinguished from narrow and insular views, which aire too prevalent at the heart of the empire, must be taken into the war councils of tho empire.

"You may think our politics bad enough, but the politics of the Mother Country aro absolutely rotten. Evan the men higher up are thinking about politics and positions and votes. They are moved by political affiliations. At so awful a •moment they aro thinking of placating this or that element among the voters. Even the very highest in the state are not indifferent to these sordid' and petty and personal considerations. Then,jhero is a lack of appreciation of the"-nature and issues of the world contest." In a reference to the same subject, Sir' Charles Macara, the eminent cottonspinner, told the British" Association For Advancement of Science that "after twelve months of war we" were only now realizing what proper co-ordinat-ion of all our vast resources might have accomplished—indeed, the difference so far as practical results woro concerned between thorough organization and the reverse scarcely cou'd be comprehended. It was unfortunate that the services of men who had

led tlie great organizations of capital and. labour had not been taken advantage or to anything like the extent they should have been—lii concluding his address, Sir Charles Macara said:—"lt ij useless, however, dwelling upon the errors _oi : the past which cannot now be altered, and the only object in referring to them is that in the future full advantage may be taken of .the evpenence gained, so that' the vast resources of the nation may be utilized to the fullest extent."