Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-11-19
RIGHT KIND OF PREPAREDNESS"

The idea isn't ours. We get it from HC Hotaling
of the Mapleton Enterprise. He says:-
eff this nation wants to take stand for prepared
it do nothing that will count than to
courage subsidze if necessary (athough general
principles opposed to subsdies the manufacture
in this country of all those articles of general necessity
for which dependent upon foreign lands Think
of necessity like carbolc acid which be manufac-
tured here we'll elsewhere, being advanced from
twenty cents to two dollars and half pound at time
when people engaged in peaceful avocations
deporable situation that is acknowledgment of
pendency other nations that of actual
would that many of the necessities of life
would be absolutely out of reach of the people,
Preparation for may be alright but preparations for
peace important and the coming congress
needed legislation than look after such
dustries will insure relief from the conditions which
exist owing to the fact that the past have de-
pended upon other lands for these necessities
This is about that best thing that has been said yet
Wars by soldiers alone. Back of the firing
line must be nation ndusrally efficient, and capable of
supplying all it's needs indefinitely. One of the great
est lessons of this is furnished by Germany but if
anyone thinks that Germany has been successful
of her military establishment he only half the truth
With her commerce absolutely off, Germany continues
herself with everything except the products of tropical
lands Germany hasn't fraction of the natural
that the United States has, and yet here in the United
States, deprived of many things because the whole
world supply with the things getting
from Germany and do not make them ourselves. With
the great variety of climate soil natural
which there in this country this country should be self
sufficient and if this country does have could
stand as GERMANY does and much more so.
For years and years, Germany has been training
soldiers but for years and years also she has been mob
izng her industries. Both take tme but of the two
the industrial development takes the longer time.
Here is where the of free trade and protection
can cease be local issue and become national
free country expect be sefsucient
unless it holds command of the England does.
country using protective tariff build itself up
trally and become self sufficient the protective tariff be
honestly and periodically distributed so as to accomplish
that very thing.
President Wilson and the Democratic party propose
preparedness for by increasing the army and navy
pendures Nothing said about industrial preparation
by far the important under present circumstances
and even useful preparation for peace than
preparation for
Industrial preparation must be brought about by a
protective tarn which the Democratic party does not
believe.
To get a protective tariff which will mobilize the in
dustries of this country and prepare it for possible
we'll for certain peace the people must turn the
Republican party.
Here is good cleancut issue. Are the Republican
leaders big enough to it, and before the country
this issue rather than sraddling the preparation
fallacy at the behest of the muntion makers?