The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-19
WAR ECHOES

Philadelphia Evening Ledger: The pro- lection of a people at peace is as inn portant as the protection of a people at war.
 The British nation is at war and its government is using all it's powers to
 conserve the supplies needed for the men
 in the field and to maintain the lives of
 the people at home. It has forbidden
 the export of wool and rubber save un- der conditions which it lays down. II I would forbid the export of foodstuffs if it raised them in large quantities.
 But while the British are going into l the markets of the world to buy what
 they need and are offering prices large
 enough to drain the richest granaries of
 their stock. the government in Washing l ton is inert.
 The foreign demand for wheat Is push 1 ing the price so high that bread is likely
 soon to become a luxury. All records for recent years were broken on the Chicago
 markets yesterday. The price of flour 1 has already risen almost to famine fig I ures here at home, where we have the
 most bountiful harvest since white men first stepped on the continent. And the government in Washington hesitates to
 act.
 But 1t must act. It must exercise its
 sovereign powers and put an embargo
 on the shipment of wheat until the price
 comes down to reasonable figure. And
 when the price is down 1t must limit ! exports to such an amount as We can spare without injury to the poorest la-
 boring man.
 l We are at peace, and hunger confronts
 the working men; we are at peace, and l the children will soon be begging for I bread; we are at peace, and the aged will I be thankful for a crust-unless the gov l ernment puts up tho bars and stops the flow of the very bread of life to other shores to feed other~peoples. l If we were at war it would not hesi- tate to keep our food supplies at home. | If it does not act soon it will be too | late.
 l Let it save our food supply while there | is still time.
 New York Telegram: Germanys threat ened invasion of England has been pre- dicted by E. Phillips Oppenheim in many of his popular novels in the past, and the author of Mysterious Mr. Sabin," :" "The Vanished Messenger" and the like. has generally selected his own North sea coast in the county of Norfolk as the ideal spot for the Kaiser's soldiers to land. No one was less surprised than Mir Oppenheim when he heard of the recent naval bombardment. np 0f Oppenheim in common with the other prominent English authors is sanguine. He says: 'Before many months have passed we shall, in all probability, be en- gagged in the invasion of Germany. The allied armies-our own small one and the French and Russian millions-shall teach the German nation that war is not neces- sarily barbarism, that the inhumanity which has made cinder heap of Bel gium and must discolor for all eternity these pages of German history exists in no other nation.
 "We shall crush forever the militarism
 of Germany. If we can, we shall alter her very constitution. But may the Ger man people flourishi It is not our wish to rob her of a single yard of territory,
 of a single one of those legitimate means by which she may regain her place
 among the nations.
 Germany as peace loving republic, our greatest competitor In commerce and the arts, is a nation with whom we hope in the future to live in peace and friend ship, side by side. But as regards German miitarism, her abominable form of gov arnr1ent and IJohanzoIIarpa tharpsalyar I trust that we shall not stay our hand
 until we have crushed the last remnants of them into the dust.'
 Philadelphia Public Ledger: San Ma rino declines to receive the commission CTS Germany wishes to send, to inquire possible spies
 Their independent spirit of the worlds smallest republic is disproportionate to it's area, which is about that of Philadel- phias Thirty-fifth ward-a little moro than 30 square miles. It is a country happy in having no military history to speak of, and it's diminutveness enabled it to escape the scope of the imperial de- signs of Napoleon. When the Italian kingdom was formed, San Marino's po- litical identity was respected and pre- served, though nominally the republic is under the protection of Italy. The country has its own postage stamps and copper coinage, it's own army of 1200 and it's police force of seven (who are all foreigners). In the political turmoil that has afflicted her greater neighbors, 1t
 has been the good fortune of the people of this wee territory to remain at peace, to till the soil, to cultivate vineyards and to fashion earthenware, unvexed by the storm and stress of extraneous rela- tions. Yet not long ago the United States concluded with the captains re- gent and the general assembly a treaty for the extradition of criminals One of the lessons of the humble may
 be read in the contentment and prosperity of the republic that dares to deny the
 will of Germany, confident Of the sup
 port of other nations. San Maroni has nc use for war. She only asks the right to continue unmolested on the path of peace and progress. having beheld on every hand the object lesson of the ca- lamitous results of departing therefrom.
 
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