American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-11-26
WHAT FOOLS SOME
or US MORTAL BE!

In Suday's dispatches was an ac-
count by & German banker of the re-
cent raising In Germany of an ua-
paralleled great loan from the people
to the government. In his statement
the banker remarked that for several
decades Germany had beer accumulat-
Ing vastly more wealth than either
Great Britain or France.
The frat question awakened by that
statement Is, How has that been pos
sibIe?" The answer IL easy. Ger
many has caught the secret OF making
valuable goods by mixing and fus!ng
cheap raw material with German
brains. She has perfected her manu-
Factories with needed machinery; to
this she has added n thorough know
ledge OF chemistry and the graccs that
come OF art schools, school Of design
and textile schools which enables her
10 produce goods In the best form and
when color effects are needed TO ad-
just the colors. Then she has provid-
cd merchant ships to carry away her
hnished products to peoples who are
unakilled In the arts with which her
Artisans are familiar, to exchange her
goods for money and for such raw
material mn she needs In her factories.
And abe has kept her ships running
regularly and when. In themselves
they did not pay, she has paid them
bountieu to keep them running, that
the trade might not stop and that her
merchants IN foreign lands might GER
tainly promise when any goods that
misht be wanted and which they ala
not possess would be forthcoming.
The Immediate effects have been
that she has bccn continually building
larger and fceter ships and has been
covering her not naturally rich soil
with o and more factories, making
work for all her swiftly-increasing
population.
In the meatime she has been enabled
from the proiits to build n great war
- " hh*itteHN fuNl hhu w tIiii
$500. 900 Of her people to perfection
N soldiers and sailors, and now when
the stress OF n great war Ia upon her,
by a single call the people who have
engaged IN the arts of peace are
abls TO loan TO the Fatheland a sum
that has no parallel IN the worlds his
tory.
There would have not been the
slightest dificulty on the part of our
government and people IN pursuing
same course. but while the work
and the results have been In plain
slight, our government and people have
like sieep-walkers been looking on,
but seeing nothing.
And even now. when the opportunity
d = century IL open before Us. see how
are. as u nation. meeting 1t. The
chief magistrate. OF the nation admits
hat we should have a merchant ma
line commensurate with our place
among the nations. but insists there
must be peither b~ounties, nor sub
'tdies promised to sussain II, failing
Utterly to see that II IL the only pos
'ible connecting link between our
oreign and domestic trade. and that
0 keep up that trade In its present
laiting way costs In money, which
: Lost to us forever. annually. enough
o establish a great empire In twenty
ears. and the majority OF sleep walk
~ In congress look on. seeing nothing
nd applaud his view. +.
When the great war came on across ,
he Q q the president lost no time In
oclarinG that our people must be =
eutral In the war. which was right,
ut he failed to see that for thirty :
san past through our stolid deter
Ainatiou not to make some American
nip owners richer. we have been sup !,
lying Germany quite 500, 900, 900 In !,
Old annually. which IL the choicest :
Why she II now able to aus !.
N : war almost alone. against three :,
! ne foremost powers on earth. +.
WIS not the great dramatist right
hsn be cried out. 'what fools these :,
'oetnls bsr-0oodwin's Weekly. :,