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If we don't, it is about time that the scales fell from our eyes, and that we set about, in grim earnest, to tackle the great problem of the solemn trust which is now resting in our hands. We shall not come triumphant out of the struggle without a mighty and a stupendous effort. I want you to consider with me how best we can discharge that obligation, and how far, at present, we are falling short of it. Now, ladies and gentlemen, let us remember this: We are not a military nation. It never dawned upon the authorities—never mind to which Party they belonged—that the time might come, when a great expeditionary force would have to be sent out for the benefit of the civilized world.

And so it comes about that we have been suddenly called upon, under our voluntary system of service, to ask the manhood of the country to come to its rescue, and to rally round the Flag. One of the purposes of to-night's meeting is to endeavour to encourage that movement, and to face plainly one or two aspects of it to which I want to call your attention. Now I have said I have come here to look at public affairs as a plain, blunt man.

I am not aspiring to office or to any public favour, and I do not go out of my way to humbug a public audience. I say deliberately—and those in authority would say so if they dared—that we are not doing so well as we ought with regard to recruiting. I will tell you in a moment a few startling facts. I do not blame the men altogether, because I do not think we have yet made an adequate, concerted, and satisfactory effort to bring home to their minds the exact gravity of the problem we have to face. I do not forget that, in the early days of recruiting, there were terrible scandals.

I know that most young fellows get letters from their pals in the camps and trenches, and there have been all sorts of difficulties which have led many men to hesitate. I know that the terms of treatment and the pay of our soldiers in the past have been scandalously, wretchedly and meanly inadequate. Now just another word about this recruiting. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a startling fact that out of 1,, members of Kitchener's Army, , are married men, only , of them being without family ties and obligations. If you assume—as you are entitled to do—that every one of these men has two or three persons dependent upon him, each of whom will have to be provided for out of the separation allowance, you get something like three-quarters of a million pounds a week paid to support the wives and dependents of the men who ought to be supporting them themselves, while the more active, free, younger men ought to be doing the fighting work abroad.

What I want to say is this: I don't profess to know any Cabinet secrets, but I pledge myself to this—that this state of things is not going to continue many weeks longer.

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If the single men of the country do not come forward in larger numbers than they are doing, it will not be many weeks before, by Act of Parliament, or the operation of the common law of the land, they will be compelled to go and do that which it ought to be their very proudest privilege to rush to do of their own accord.

Ladies and gentlemen, I throw out this suggestion—that Lord Kitchener should at once announce the exact number of further men he requires; that he should give a time-limit to the Government, and that, if at the expiration of that time the whole new Army is not ready, then, by the operation of law, every man capable of bearing arms—and the single ones in preference—should be compelled to do their duty to their country as men in other countries are doing.

It is mainly owing to lack of appreciation of facts, and from lack of proper campaigning and recruiting, that our men are failing to come forward to-day [Cheers. I read a day to two ago a speech made by a public man, who claims to be a special representative of the workers of this country, in which he told a large gathering of working men that the only reason we became so interested in Belgian neutrality was that we wanted an excuse for our country to go to war.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to mention the cur's name. Well, ladies and gentlemen, these are the sort of things that are keeping recruiting back. We want to make it clear to the manhood of this country that this is a life and death struggle between the Anglo-Saxon race and the Teutonic races; the Teutonic is still as brutal, as barbarous, and as base as it has been throughout the whole of its history.

I, personally, think the civilization of Germany to-day—despite all its literature and spiritual attractions—[hear, hear]—belongs to a period of a thousand years ago. When you see the illustrations we get every day of the methods this callous enemy adopts, I say there is a call to every British man who values the freedom of his country, and values the freedom and blessing of civilization, to go and help to put such a barbarous foe out of existence for all time.

I am not going to dwell on the tragedy of poor, bleeding Belgium. I am not going to enlarge on the horrible atrocities which we all know have been committed there, in Flanders, and in Northern France. I am not going to dwell for more than a moment on the new method of warfare, which attacks an unfortified town like Scarborough, and gathers in a harvest of helpless, innocent women and children, and calls it a great military feat.

But if that is one of the recognized methods of our new enemy, it would not be a bad idea if we distributed all the German prisoners we have among the unfortified coastal towns of the kingdom.

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And then, perhaps, their countrymen—Heaven knows whether they would or not—might possibly be more reluctant to attack us in the way they have done. Nobody knew better than the late King Edward how mad his nephew was. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the talons of the lion are already getting well into the neck of the vulture, and that you can almost hear the death rattle of his foul and black throat. We heard a lot about its aspirations for "The Day," and now we know how dearly it prefers "the night.

And so the new "kultur" of the fighting world is to be this: In the next championship boxing match when one of the combatants is fearful of his opponent, he will take steps to mine the centre of the ring; the Oxford and Cambridge boat race will be decided by a mine at Mortlake; the Derby will be fatal to the favourite when he gallops over the mine immediately in front of the winning-post.

That is the "kultur" of the Teutonic race; that is the new method with which our sailors have to contend. Did a fleet ever maintain the traditions of the ocean—of a great Naval race—better than our sailors are doing to-day? What was the survivors' story? When it comes to the day of reckoning—and it is a heavy reckoning which this enemy has to look to—it will be for us, the people, to consider what that reckoning shall be. It may, after all, be for the best that this Fleet is remaining intact as it is doing, because it may facilitate the settlement when the time comes. And on that point I want to say this: in the name of Heaven, make up your minds, that, just as this is your war and my war, the settlement is to be ours, and is not to be a hole-and-corner affair of the Party politicians in any Cabinet chamber.

We sent out to the conference a great soldier.


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Lord Wellington; and I am going to suggest that we follow that example and that, when it comes to discussing the terms of peace, we give the politicians a temporary rest and say to Lord Kitchener—[cheers, and a voice: "Lord Fisher"]—and, as my friend says, Lord Fisher, or Admiral Jellicoe, the men who have done the work, and say: "You have finished the job; now go over for us and reap the fruit.

Politicians will wrangle and argue about them, but to my mind they are fairly apparent and obvious.

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I think one or two heads will represent the minimum of the public demand. One of the first things we want to do is to get rid finally of Turkey out of Europe. German and Austrian Poland must be added to the new Kingdom of Poland. We will have a composite Poland with an opportunity of building up a national existence and life for itself.

Hungary and Bohemia must again be separate States; they hate Germany and are only longing for an opportunity to break away. They must be given their independence and liberty. Germany and Prussia must go back to the position they were in in —a collection of small and harmless States, infinitely happier than they are to-day, many of them yearning to get back into their peaceful avocations, and to be freed from the military dominance which is to-day crushing them almost to the ground. Alsace and Lorraine will naturally go back to their old friends and parents—France.

The Fleet of Germany, if still intact, I once thought might conveniently be added to our own, but, lest that should cause any jealousy among the Allies, would not it be a good idea to make it a nucleus of an International Fleet, manned and commanded by international officers, for the purpose of policing the seas of the world, and helping to keep the ports and commerce of the nations free from molestation?

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Think over the idea. One of the great things of the war may be an international compact by which the seas shall be kept free and open; and if this German fleet does not rot in the Canal let it earn its living at last by doing something useful. There will, of course, be the indemnity, which will have to recoup the Allies, not only the expenditure on the War, but all the cost of compensation and of pensions which will follow the War.

We will follow the example of Germany in ; we will follow its example whenever it gets hold of a Belgian city and say to her, as the man said who went to the bank manager for an overdraft. Of course, the Kaiser and his promising son will have to be dealt with.


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They can be put up for auction so far as I am concerned, and knocked down to the lowest bidder. On this, I speak in all seriousness, and I throw out a suggestion for the consideration of what are called responsible statesmen. All Europe and the whole civilized world are indebted to little Belgium to-day. That is only the beginning of it. That is no adequate compensation for us to make in recognition of the enormous debt we owe that little brave people, who stood between chaos and civilization, and whose stand saved France, and, perhaps, saved us, from catastrophes too terrible to contemplate.

First of all, there is a little province at present in the occupation of Germany which she ought never to have possessed, and which we do not intend her to keep—Schleswig-Holstein. There is another respect in which we can compensate Belgium, and in which Belgium can do a great service to the world. There is that little water-way the Kiel Canal, which has got to be denationalized. It has got to be put in the hands of some one in trust for Europe, and I say the natural custodian and trustee of it is King Albert of Belgium. As in life, the sisters remain together in death and are buried in Line 15 Row 51 at Carr Green Cemetery, Rastrick but were never given a headstone.

Another of the sisters was Sarah Jane, born 2nd February John was a member at Bridge End but was also a superintendent and teacher at New Road Sunday School where no doubt the couple first met. John had been privately educated at Rishworth Grammar School and went on to be involved in woollen manufacturing like his family before him. The teachers records at New Road show that Sarah Jane was absent through illness on the 13th November She never made a full recovery and died on the 11th October No children were produced from the marriage.

John was distraught and was himself absent in the teaching registers at New Road for many months but he made substantial contributions towards the growth of the Sunday School over the ensuing years until his death in Sarah Jane was laid to rest at Bridge End in a grave which John Thornton later signed over to the Bottomley family and her parents were eventually interred within the same plot upon their deaths. The fifth daughter was called Emma. Very little is known of her as she died in August aged 15 months and was buried at Bridge End in a grave later occupied by her grandparents in Plot A The eldest of the two sons was Charles Bottomley, known as Charlie.

He was born in and married Hannah Roebuck on the 9th October , just two days before his sister Sarah Jane passed away. Charles and Hannah had two sons and two daughters but it is their son Norman who many older residents of Rastrick will remember. The final child that I am going to discuss is the second born son, John William Bottomley, my great grandfather. He was known as John William all his life, never only by just his first christian name.

John William was born in Rastrick on the 25th January He was an apprentice painter in his early life and was a regular worshipper at both Bridge End and New Road. I have no idea why the couple chose to be married there but suspect it was something to do with their first child, Elsie being born just three months later! He eventually gave up his work as a painter and paperhanger, putting his copperplate writing skills to full use by finishing his working life as a book-keeper. He was a keen cricketer and passed on his love of the game to his sons. He was the secretary of the New Road Cricket Club who played at Badger Hill, a club that became synonymous with the Bottomley name for many years after.

John William and Priscilla had nine children. The first four children were girls and the final five were all boys. The first born was Elsie who was born on the 27th July She never married and always lived with her parents. Following the death of her mother in , Elsie acted as the housekeeper for her father and the two brothers who were still at home at that time.

Arnold married in and Albert in leaving Elsie at home with her father but the week after Albert left home, Elsie died on the day before her 48th birthday.

He lived with them until his death. The second child was Ada who was born on the 7th June Ada became a member of Bridge End church in March and was the oldest and longest serving member when the the church finally closed its doors on the 27th June She lived at Crowtrees Lane all her married life, losing her husband Frank in They had two sons, Harold and Norman I remember going to see Ada on her 90th birthday during the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee celebrations in She died in Halifax Infirmary on 25th November later that year.

The third child was Sarah Jane who was born on the 16th July They lived at Greenhead Lane, Rastrick in their early married life but later moved to 5, Garlick Street.


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