The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03
WHAT FOOLS SOME or US
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Z In Sundays dispatches was an ac-
count by German banker Of the re-
cent raising in Germany OF an unpar-
aileled great loan from the people to
the government In his statement the
banker remarked that for several dec
AIDES Germany has been accommodating
vastly more wealth than either Great
Britain or France.
The first question awaken by that
statement is "How has that been pos
sible?" The answer is easy. Germany
has caught the secret OF making val
liable goods by mining ang using cheap
raw material with German brains. She
has perfected her manufactures with
needed machinery; to this she has add
ed a thorough knowledge CT chemistry
and the graces that come of arr
schools, schools Of design and textile
schools which enables her TO produce
goods in the best form and when
color effects are needed to adjust the
colors. Then she has provided merchant
ships to carry away her finished pro-
ducts to peoples who are unskilled in
the arts with which her artisans are
familiar, to exchange her goods for
money and for such raw material as
she needs in her factories
And she has kept her ships running
regularly and when. in themselves they
did not pay. she has paid them bounties
to keep them running that the trade
might not stop and that her merchants
in foreign lands might certainly promise
when any goods that might be wanted
and which they did not possess would
be forthcoming.
The immediate effects have been
that she has been continually building
larger and fleeter ships and has been
covering her not naturally rich soil
with more and more factories. making
work for all her swiftly embarrassing popu
lation.
In the meantime she has been enabl-
ed from the profits to build a great
war as well as merchant navy and to
train 100000 of her people to perfec-
tion as soldiers and sailors. and now
when the stress of a great war is up
on her. by a single call the people
who have been engaged in the arts of
peace are able to loan to the Father
land sum that has no parallel in the
worlds history.
There would have not been the
slightest difficulty on the part of our
government and people in pursuing the
Sdfft6 CObiStt Dut willie the WOTh anu
tine results have been in plain sight,
our government and people have, like
sleep-walkers been looking on, but
seeing nothing.
And even now, when the opportunity
of century is open before us. see how
we are. as nation, meeting it, The
chief magistrate of the nation admits
that we should have a merchant ma
rina QOf q IN To 50. fxxtfh r,lo
among the nations. but insists Rthat
there must be neither bounties, nor
subsidies promised to sustain 1t, fail
ing utterly to see that 1t Is the only
possible connecting link between our
foreign and domestic trade, and that to
keep up that trade in its present halt
ing way costs in money, which is lost
to us forever, annually, enough to es-
tablish a great empire in twenty years
and the majority Of sleep walkers in
congress look on, seeing nothing, and
applaud his view.
When the great war came on across
the sea, the president lost no time
in declaring that our people must Abe
neutral in the war, which was right.
but he failed to see that for thirty
| years past. throuGh- our stolid deter
mination not to make some American
ship owners richer, we have been sup
plying Germany quite 800, 100000 in
gold annually, which is the chlefest
reason why she is now able to sustain
a war almost alone. against three of the
foremost powers on earth.
Was not the great dramatist right
when he cried out, What fools these
mQrtals be?"-Goodwin's Weekly.
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