The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-11
ENGLAND RELIEVED
AND YET FEARFUL
Menace of War With Ger
many Fades Away in Gum
Trust Scandal.
BUT THERE'S THE RUB
Price Great Powers Are Pay
ing Because of international
Hatred Is Large.
BUT THERE'S THE RUB
By PHILLIP EVERETT.

Special Cable to The Tribune
! LONDON, May 10.-The revelations
recently made in Germany concerning
the existence of an international trust
Of armor and gun factories which used
every possible means to create g de-
mand' for the engines of destruction
they manufacture, have created almost
as much Of sensation here as in Ger
many, for it is realized with a certain
feeling Of relief that everything in
Germany is not in such shipshape or
der as we have been used to believe
The English people are afraid, how
ever, that such things are not confined
to Germany, Russia and France.
Hatred Comes High.
Nations are paying dreadful price
for the cult of international hatred and
there exists in England not only a
political party always clamoring for
greater naval and military expendi-
lures, but also press whose speciality
Is creating war scares
While not even the worst enemy Of
the Tory party In England would dream
OF accusing it of being in league with
the great gun and armor factories here
and abroad, there are right here in Lon
don papers That may not be above sus-
picion OF being subsidized by Krupp
and the international armor trust.
1t appears indeed as if at least one
great European international trust
might give points to its American col
leagues, not only in the efficiency of
its methods, but also in the evil crop
that springs up from its dragon teeth,
sowu with skillful hands The world
mas fortunately seen nothing like this
trust before. Its trade is death; it's
profits lie in the murder of men, in
ssapping whole nations of their strength
for decades, its interest in the cult.
vation of human hatred.
Plain Arraignment.
As one paper puts it: 'sThe world
is horror struck with the idea of Ger
man armament firm fed by French
money, or of another armament firm
deliberately inspiring the French press
to attack the country of its own birth
But one only has to turn over the
pages of a big financial paper to discover
that nearly all the great armament
firms OF England, as well as of Ger
many and France, are acting with en-
tire Indifference to patriotism of any
kind. They are all alike engaged in
the, operation of arming all nations
with the absolute Indifference against
one another. AS the nations wither
and perish SO do the dividends of these
armament firms rise. During the years
of panice. ghastly increment of profit
has swollen the prospectuses of these
companies, and sent ghoulish Joy
through their shareholders
AS a mosquito 8 body swells In size
lrvrhy IL IL, Al
| the shares of these gun and armor fac
tories swell when there is a prospect
that human blood will be shed. "
Proof of Profit.
For proofs of this we need not 90
back very many months. In December.
1912, when war between Austria and
Russia seemed imminent, it was an
nounced that Shoda, the famous Aus.
trian factory Of arms, praised time and
again for its patriotism, intended to
|put up a branch factory In Russia in
order to supply the czar' IS soldiers with
guns to shoot Austrian soldiers down
About the middle Of February new
rumors OF impending war caused the
same .factory's shares to go up 30 per
cent in one single hour on the Vienna
stock exchange.
And now a few weeks ago whsa the
people of England had been scared into
believing that they we1e In Imminent
danger Of an invasion of German air.
ships. scare probably engineered by
agents of Ge,rman manufn cturers OF
IdiHgibles, the German government, one
Of the most autocratic in the world,
found these samo manufacturers laugh
ing at it, when it tried to forbid them
to sell their dirigibles to England.
With them trade does not follow the
flag. their flag on the contrary runs
after trade.
Tho armor and gun trust threatens
to become more powerful than all the
European governments together, and
these governments decide upon disarm.
ament all over and the submission of
all international questions to supreme
court Of arbitration Mt The Hague, The
only difficulty in doing this will be to
find n great power willing to do the be-
ginning.