The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-12-29

conflict with the United States Gov.
eminent" From this unbending view
others dissent. But the New York
Globe very plausibly argues that the
law covering other warcraft also ap-
plies to submarine. It remarks:
Ships of war, for use above the wa
ter, may not be built at our yards for
any Of the belligerents. This is now
we'll settled. The same prohibition
would seem to apply to ships for use
under the water. The fact that they
went abroad in parts and were to be
= reassembled should not make a diff
ference. Great Britain and the Unit
ed States are under agreement to use
diligence to prevent the departure
from its jurisdiction of any vessel in
tended to cruise or to carry on war
! against a country with which it is at
peace, such vessel having been special
ly adapted, in whole or in part, within
such jurisdiction to warlike use.' 1t
l "VuAu nv ollty NC dSodlIIoI lulCl
al practice to build war vessels for
belligerents, but it would be danger
GUS. A precedent would be set per-
hitting like sales to our enemy should
we be at war
But it is the Presidents personal in
depreciation that sticks in the crop of
several of the newspapers, particularly
in the case of Manhattan s anti-admin-
istration's dailies. Added to this, the
thought, that while Mr.. Schwab has
not given up anything belonging to
him." the workers in the steel trades
and through them the whole country,
have given up fat and profitable con-
tract, brings forth scathing arraign-
ment of Mr.. Wilson's policy in the af-
fair. The Sun, for example, refers to
the many articles that are being knit
ted in this country for use by the SOL
diers in the trenches These will UNI
Questionably Comfort and sustain
| fighting men who receive Them and
| therefore form "a direct contribution
| to their nations belligerent resources"
What of these? Does the fact that
they produce no trade benefit to this
country exempt them?" This attempt
at distinction between articles of use
| food, clothing, and SO on, and actual
munitions of war, which is emphasiz-
ed in the bill introduced by Senator
Hitchcock, is one that many editors
feel to be unjustified The idea gen.
orally held is that we are not our
brothers keeper. We can make and
sell what any nation wishes to order.
1t is shipped as contraband, at the
buyers risk. If it happens only that
certain nations control the Atlantic,
and consequently are the only ones
who can trade profitably with us, we
are assured that that is not our fault
or concern. Both the United States
and the Atlantic ocean have been here
for considerable time, and if any ma
ton has not taken them sufficiently
into account, it is obviously that ma
tons fault. This is the view of the
Brooklyn Eagle editors, who accuse
Mr.. Wilson of leaning backward" in
his attempts to stand straight ON this
issue" The effect on the country's
welfare which they see in this poll
cy urges them to insist that "the law
is the law"
1T should be and will be enforced.
The well-defined principles of inter
national law should govern, and will
govern, the Interpretation and the
enforcement of our statutes. But the
highest morality as we'll as the highest
consideration of expediency demands
that within these limitations we should
increase our trade, stimulate our in
|dustiy keep our factories busy, in
order that depression here may not
make it impossible for us to help the
rest of the world in emergency condi-
lions, of which the starving condi-
ton of Belgium is only single fore
cast for thinking minds.
More than half of Schwab's esti-
mated $50,O00,000 new business would
have been spent in wages. Twenty
five thousand families might have got
$1,000 year out of it. But the incl
dental meaning of such a policy of res
friction is far more disastrous than
the specific case now affected Our
factories are already busy on 1,000,-
100000 uniforms for belligerents, on
1000, 100000 pairs of shoes for bellig-
erents. Cartridge-making concerns
are busy night and day. Tens of thou
sands Of horses are being bought for
cavalry use. Tremendous orders for
barbed wire, for machines, for engine
machinery, for structural steel used in
fort ficQfinnC CI1nn1 q an ftn0 tho