The Washington herald., 1914-08-18
Can Money Stop Warl
By Emory ). HAYNES.

We have been often told Of late years that the
fnanciers controlled the war question We will now
see All Europe is plunged into war. Can all Europe
get the money? We laymen curious to know.
There such test in expense, because since
the world began equal populations fell to fighting
all at once. And then there is the worldwide high
cost of living Can these emperors and cabinets ride
rough shod over all this cost question?
All of us plain people can think where the cost of
war comes in But generally we do not think Of IL
Let US see. If were to carry out my mad fit and
hght--that is, If were The responsible head of
nation-I should need think that the soldiers must
have their wages And there must be many more
soldiers Soldiers fight for pay If they are not paid
the mischief is to pay.
And their clothes cost money, and get worn out
and soiled fast in marches and battles The dead arc
buried in their clothes, rule, except some Shoes
But could not expect make clothes stiff with gore
an acceptable change to the new recruit for his
civilians dress.
Their weapons are expensive. A good field piece
costs probably more than moving machine, and in
battle employer hardly expect the hired soldier
to be careful of spokes of the wheels of the gun
riage it that the tires set when loose
Indeed, all the harness OF horses gets broken The
entire harness of war, rifles, swords, and tents
out fast, all of which costs money The mere upkeep
of army is so expensive that l appalled,. Can
afford it?
Then there are shot and shell and all that mis-
cellaneous stuff that is used in war called ammuni-
ton. Which is used just 1t is burned up fired
away hits tree or store falls into the water.
must provide metal equal to mans height before
can hit one of the enemy. l must make rain of
bullets" forest of bayonets" and the water l
must make the sea boil"
l must stop many factories depopuate many
farms, empty many shops. For l must have the men.
The indirect cost OF war is far more than the direct
the exhaustion of my country, which in the end l
must pay
The plain people refuse to put their money in the
banks They hide it. So that the bankers speak the
truth when they say they cannot lend to me. And
dig all the back yards of the people to get
their gold from the holes where they have buried it?
The great millions go the banks and draw gold
They will have gold. Who can make them disgorge
this gold? The people sell their securities they will
not absorb" the government loan, really, and my
soldiers are not paid and they getting furiousy
mad, most as mad as was when declared war, and
with far better
1t would almost seem that the great fnanciers
could choke the breath out of the modern emperor
who is so red in the face Almost seem that bankers
could demand softly yet with both gentIemanly and
insolent smile, Where are you going to get the
money!" Money has become great power in the
last 200 years This power has often seemed I'M
friendly But there may be another side to money.
Capital is timd and thanks that it is So II is only
when capital is touched by great patriotic purpose
as when Secretary Dix appealed to American dollars
to the Union, only then that it is brave
Foolish wars should from now on be impossible to
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fduciary places to governments that they will!
desert them in of needless 1t is possible
for the millions to alarm the bankers by selling secur
ties for cash that will endure the backyard hole in the
ground.
Are not these European millions themselves at
fault? Do they not take up the emperor's quarrel?
Is there much real brotherhood the national
boundy? Is not the cry, 81 am AustrianT ye.
held to be more than Il am man."
There is certain intoxication in a hurrah. Then
there is the editor who is himself so very eager to
take the field that he has his very sword hanging
behind his Office door. If the patriotc citizenship will
resort to the referendum, war, it must
think for itself, and there few of who do
However, perhaps the closest agreement of millions
of human units is that dollar is a dollar.
One touch of the dollar makes the whole world
kin There is ray of hope in this love of dollar.
AT election tunes It would often seem that the
economies spelled Plurbus Unum. We elect the
man who promises to lower taxes and speed up busi
ness. The love of money is not wholly an unmxed
evil after all
Maybe not the celestial dove but the almighty
dollar should be embroidered in threads of gold or
silver cloth, the insignia of peace banners.
Most other costs of war, the widows sorrow and
the orphans tears will have to wait some centuries
yet before they count for as much as dollars.
Tears of Joy