The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-13

the cotton heldS and seek employment
of more profitable character. Not
for thirty-fve years, preceding the
present war, have prices averaged so
mucn as twelve cents, and We see no
reason to predict higher average in
the future
Governor Blease said, "the trouble
with the Southern people today is not
that they have planted too much cot
ton. 1t is the 'do-nothingness' of the
president and tie Democratic, So
called, congress at Washington.
You've got no Democratic president
If you had, instead of his actions be-
inc controlled by English capital, he
would say to England, You've got to
let our commerce alone; you've got to
let our cotton and our provisions con-
signed to neutral countries go through.
If you don't, we'll make you. England
has always overriden as far as she
could the rights of tie people of this
country. Her overbearing attitude and
tyrannous treatment of the colonies
was the cause of our fight for inde-
pendence.
Congress Should Be Convened.
Congress should be called together
at once and law passed prohibiting
a single dollar or a particle Of pro-
visions or munitions being sent to
England, to her allies or to Germany,
and it should also forbid any factory
to send any arms or ammunition to
Europe 65at would either prolong this
war or maybe in future be used to
fight US with. Let the United States
buy all such output by our factories.
GA substantial increase in ship
ments of war munitions is now about
to begin, and will continue for the
next six months, and American fac
tories will be rushing the delivery of
millions of dollars worth of war ma
terial from the United States to
Europe.
This County and War Material.
statistics show that had the United
States been facing on it's own soil
either of the great armies now con-
tending in the great European strug-
gle it would have been utterly at the
mercy of the enemy within few
months, because of the lack of any
thing to shoot in the firearms of the
army and navy.
eff every ammunition plant of the
United States government was to run
twenty-four hours a day their COM
bined maximum production would be
about 100000 rife cartridges a day.
The entire supply Of rife cartridges
slowed in government arsenals and
appropriated for but not yet delivered
amounts to approximately 252,OOO,OOO.
All privately owned ammunition
plants in the United States, working
every minute of the twenty-four I-ours,
have a maximum production of not
exceeding 100000 cartridges a day.
when Germany went into the pres
ent great war being waged in Europe
she had on hand 50,000,000,0 0,000-just
think, fifty billions-rife cartridges
and 25,o00,OO0 rifles, or five rifles for
every man in the field and 1000 rounds
of ammunition for each rife.
Let the Rich Enlist First.
"And yet they want to send these
munitions we need so badly right here
at nome across the ocean to Europe,
and at the same time talk about get
ting this country into war. If the
Washington administration and East
ern capitalists succeed in forcing war
upon US, you working people wait un-
til all tie bankers, the capitalists, the
mill presidents and stockholders, the
big wholesalers and other wealthy men
enlist and go to the front, and after
they are there, if you are needed, it
will be soon enough for you to enlist.
"Tnis thing of loading vessels with
Wilson No Friend of the TOiler.
arms and ammunition and having a
few international tramps aboard to
make it a passenger vessel should be
stopped. The reason we hear so much
about Germany destroying ships is
that when Morgan's money is touched
it touches McAdoo, and Ire runs to
Papa-in-law Wilson and crys outrage.
Woodrow Wilson is no friend of the
toiler. If he was he would not have
been elected governor of New Jersey,
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