The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-28

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country of disaster would cream . i
anv attempt to describe what mas nap
nened there or to interpret the teellnSS
of the nations. -, aaa
AS well might a citizen t1eelnS
from burning Pompeii have attempted
to describe that disaster.
But we know in the horrible out
line what has happened and VIII nap
pen.
mare for the marvellous work n tne
marvellous opportunity that await the
country along and among he great
powers blessed with permanent peace
"Consider that in Germany you see
not a young man-all gone t. war.
Thrifty Nation Pauperized.
"Remember that the savings banks
DEPOSITS of all Germans have been
taken over by the gOvernTent-re-
CENTS issued to be paid-no one knows
when.
Imagine the most thrifty, careful
nation in the world suddenly reduced
by one stroke to immediate poverty.
All the savings taken to be burned up
in the confagration Of war.
And think Of France, with the
great SHOPS ClOSSu. y SllOp hNC NV
Bon MarChe, the greatest In the world,
perhaps, forced to shut its doors with
the other great houses because there
are no men to run the stores, no mon
ey to buy up the stores.
"Think of the thousands of factories,
the millions of workers destroyed, TAX
en- from useful work, gone. wiped off
the face of the earth.
Floods, cyclones, al the disasters
Of nature working through a century,
could not have accomplished the ruin
that has been brought about in a few
short days by the bitter struggle Of
man against man.
Il have spoken Of the great eff
cheney shown. This is nowhere more
remarkable than in England - n
some Americans perhaps have been &C
customed to underestimate the eff
cheney and especially the quickness
and decision of action Of among the
Englishmen.
"One or two incidents may enlight-
en- our people.
Food prices are important to Eng
land.
The ship lines from South America
to England bringing meat raised. their
freight rate 3 cents per hundred. They
said they must do this because ships
were scarce and war insurance vas
high.
Government Fixes Prices.
"A committee from the government
said to teh shippers in plain words,
You shall charge the usual rate Of
freight on food or your ship will never
unload another cargo at an English
port. You get the ships, thee govern
ment of Great Britain will take the
war risk. That is what the fleet is for
consequently England gets her
meat from South America today at the
same freight rate as she did before,
thanks to the fact that England with
Ia never-ceasing determination has
kept her feet ready for Just such an
emergency.
In Liverpool meat vas stored and
the price was raised in accordance
with human nature.
Representatives Of the English
government went to the men who had
the meat and said: Six and a half
cents is a fair price. Six and a hall
cents you shall get And the govern
ment paid the 6h cents and took the
meat, saying to the people: We are
using no violence. If justice is on your
side o may bring you action in the
English courts and get your remedy
Thoroughly efficient, energetic and
instantaneous has been the action Of
England. Our boats came escorted by
two cruisers, an English cruiser COM
ing half way over, another English
cruiser picking up the ship and COM
ing the rest of the way.
That is efficiency. England has one
bright feature in this war, the fact
that she commands the seas and con
tinues her great business, exporting
and carrying on the water.
"FNGrV rPSnOnSihla man who hor
talked has told the same story of ma
tional efficiency n energy, whether
it be of Germany, France. Russia, or
any other power.
The question is: What will the
United States do, the happiest and
most blessed of countries, to prove it
self equal to this emergency?
mo man wants to profit by anoth-
er's misfortune. but every man wants
to do his duty. And the duty of this
nation Is now to do the work of many
nations.
Where they cannot manufacture we
must manufacture. Every nation of the
world needs what we shall have to give
and can give.
w want the ships and must get
them. The whole world will want our
products and we must supply them.
There was never before offered to
men of energy, young or old, the op-
portunities, responsibilities and pros
perity hat are before the people of
the United States at this moment.
ITO keep neutral, to keep out OF
this conflict, to express special friend
ship for none, to render every posi- =
BILE service to all, to build up this coun-
try to a point of prestige and grandeur
commercially n industrially that will
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opportunity of the hour.
THE position Of the United States
seems more than m~arvelously fortu-
nate. Our condition and all the cir
cumstances that attend the beginning
OF this calamity seems miraculously
providentially fortunate.
consider our marvellous supplies OF
iron, OF machinery and our e~xtraordi-
nary crops.
U. s. to Dominate the World.
how we shall now take an6
carry on the business of South Ameri-
ca and Mexico and of the, foreign
countries that have given up all Other
industry for the industry Of war ant
bloodshed.
This country Of ours is in a posi-.
ton to dominate the world and to BEN.
ett the world. which is more impor,
tant.
THE supremacy which we shall TAX,
now will v be lost. And we cal
take the leading position and becom,
the great world power not by selasl
action, but by doing that work which
Will most benefit the other nations.
They will lack clothes and we sha.
supply them. !
They will lack food and we shall
send it to them.
"They will lack machinery. all tn,
materials for rebuilding their destroy
ed civilization-and we shall supply al
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