The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-04-03

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every country that cables and land
wires reach.
BY Marconi wireless telegraph.
Moon, March 13.-Lusitania es-
tablished eastward record for day s
run, covering 618 knots, average 26.7
knots per hour, thus. lowering previ-
GUS eastward record held by sister
ship, steamer Mauretania by four
knots" e
That run of els knots equals I'll
and a fraction miles, an average
speed of nearly 81 miles. We are
told that the captain-Daniel Dow
has made many great records in diff
ferent ships, that The is known to the
Liverpool firemen as Paddy Dow
and has a crew on his ship who have
sworn with strange oaths to win the
blue ribbon of the Atlantic for their
country and their commander" That
is good reading and is reminder
that there was a time when Ameri-
cans were proud of their ships and
captains.
When the Sovereign of the Seas
rounded the horn in ninety-seven
days from New York to San Francis
co. 1t was held to be something wond-
erful until the Flying Cloud" made
the same voyage in eight-nine days
and took the place among clipper
ships that Fly Childers has held for
more than century among English
race horses. pc.
When she made that voyage if any
German state wanted a ship it was
ordered from some foreign power
and Germany's foreign trade was nil
At the same time Germans by tens
of thousands were coming to the
United States annually.
But things have changed. Ger
many's feorign trade last year
amounted to more than $4,000, 000,-
900, having more than doubled dur
ing the past ten years, and few Ger
mans are emigrating from their ma
tive land now, they finding work at
home. She too owns the biggest and
finest steamship company in the
world.
Not content with her progress she
has now formed gigantic associa-
ton to search the world for new mar
kets for her manufactured goods and
to find cheap raw material to trans
form into manufactured goods and
wares.
When asked the reason for this,
one interested replied:
"It may be matter of surprise
for foreigners that Germany, having
attained the highest export figures in
her history in 1913-$2520, 000,O 900
more than double that of ten years
ago-should find it necessary to
make this further bid for foreign
trade. The reason is this: Today
we have 66,000,O00 inhabitants;
some day we shall have $4,000, 1000.
If we wish to retain that population
and employ it we must not only hold
the markets we now possess but we
must find new ones for our manufac-
tured articles and obtain the mater
ial from which these articles are
made at a cost less than we obtain
them today.
Export trade is factor absolute
ly vital to Germany's physical exist
ence. We have decided to resort to
the same intensive method Of culti-
waiting it as our farmers have always
had to do. What we have SO far OBJ
tanned has been the result of fore
thought hard work, and constant
vigilance. The. balance which has
been piled up in our favor, and which
has so facilitated the Reichsbank' s
financial mobilization that it now
holds record gold reserve Of $319,-
400, 900, has not been attained by the
grace of our foreign rivals. Post
prandial assurances to the contrary
cannot obliterate the fact. iInterna-
tional news agencies, principally I'M
der English and French auspic IS,
carry on an endless campaign of de-
ception and abuse wherever German
politico-economic or commercial in
terests are concerned.
First we must do something to
overcome these influences. Then we
have an elaborate constructive pro-
gram. 1t will be carried out for the
most part by comprehensive SER
vice of special agents, familiar with
the language and customs of the