The Washington herald., 1914-05-01
"A Message to Uncle Sam"

Ebert Hubbard has written the companion piece to
I" "A Message to Garcia" 1t is "A Message to Uncle
SAM and it contains more though-punchcs to the
line and minute than anything in current literature.
is the Sage of East Aurora his best, and it would
be blessing should prove effective gospel to
politics the Message Garcian great preachment
for national efficiency. The message is based the
wonderful help giving competitors in the
markets of the world by harassng and handicapping
Big Business, beginning with the widely quoted state
ment that first appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger
If were connected with the diplomatic service of
Europe would organize system under which agents
would be into this country with big wad OF
money and would hire a lot of windJammers to keep
up this agitation against the so-caed trust would
make popular opinion against them, such that the gov
ernment could not fail to resort to the EXTREMIST
measures for breaking up the big concerns.
This is the text upon which Hubbard breaches and
he holds all who listen, down to the last benedction
"When big business" he says, rs gyved and hand
cuffed the workingman suffers Exports of raw ma
terials and foodstuffs skmming milk and
giving the cream away. We must raw ma
terials and foodstuffs right here. Then
let sell manufactured products. By so DOING we
sphon into this country the wealth of the world and
in this wealth all of wage-earners share Henry
Ford sells Steel brass leather and wood properly
ordnated at so cents pound"
Hubbard points ont that the largest market for
American farm machinery is not Kansas City, St.
Paul, nor yet Fargo but Omsk, in far-away Russian
Siberia In ten years. he shows, exports of American
manufactured goods have doubled in thirteen years
they have jumped from four hundred eghty-four mil
lions to over billion. This that every year
more than thousand million dollars is brought here
from Europe in payment for American enterprise,
American labor, and American materials" Formerly
SIXTH we are third a manufacturing nation.
But says Hubbard, IF the American government
will cease to add artificial difficulties the natural
difficulties of doing business will soon rank first.
Hubbard wants no palliation of wrongdoing Guilt
is personal and the man who violates the rights of
person and property should be punished Fines will
not do, and directors should be held responsible for
the conduct of business. Punish the guilty yes but
let's not dersil commercial progress for of
politics.
The Message makes an extended and powerful ar
gurnent for the encouragement of manufacturing as
against the export of raw material 1t declares that
the country that sells the raw material will always be
poor and instances the making of Kodak which sells
abroad for S. and is made from raw material which
costs 70 cents Manufacturing is the useful organi
zation of materials" says the Message "The wealth
of America did not turn on either labor or raw ma
terials IT turned on genius for organization adap-
taton and invention" And further along IT declares
"And Europe jealous of ability to produce wealth
is putting the knockout drops into our prosperity
through misleading publicity. Instead of being the