The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-10-07

paper will be given by Rev. H. G..
Juell of Hankinson.
the WORLD WIDE WAR TRUST
United States Senator George
L. Oliver of Pennsylvania, testi-
fed before the Senate lobby in
vestigation committee that he
owned 1000 shares of stock in
the United States Steel Corpora
ton and held a considerable
interest in copper mining. He
testified he also owned 1900
shares in the Pittsburgh Coal Co.,
and two newspapers-the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times and the
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Increased armament requires
great quantities Of both copper
and coal.
The United States Steel Corpo-
ration is the owne" OF the Car
negie Steel Co., which concern
has obtained $32, 100000 worth Of
contracts from the Navy depart
ment for armor alone: and other
millions of do;l:cs worth of con-
tracts forothe materials used il,
the nteasins Of the Army and
Navy.
! On February 2, 1915, one of
Senator divers newspapers edi-
torially asked:
But what is meant by that re-
sounding mouthful disarmament
by the United States?" Isn't the
fact that the United States is pref
! ty we'll disarmed as matters stand
There isn't much sense in talking
of the United States disarmin2
before it is armed
Get Ready to Pay In Earnest from
now on
| Two billion dollars have been
collected in 10 years from the
men, women, and children Of our
nation for militar,sm, a sum suf-
ficient to dig the Panama Canal.
pay off the national debt with en-
ough left to defray for one whole
year the entire expenses of all
the churches, including foreign
missions, all the free schools, col
leges, and universities in Ameri-
ca.
And the end is not yet. The
war traffickers have not finished
reapmg their harvest; they are
just getting in good trim to make
us pay the cost of militarism in
real earnest. American people,
listen to this little colloquy which
occurred recently at one of the
hearings of the Naval Affairs
Committee between Representa-
tive Finly Gray of Indiana, and
Admiral Vreeland, a big-Navy
booster:
"Mr. Gray. l wish to inquire
of the admiral if it is not the pol
icy of other Governments to in
crease their navies with all the
other leading powers?
"Mr. Gray. What would be the
advantage to us or any other pow
ers if the navies were increased
equally by all the nations of the
world? Would there be any advan
tage to us or to any other power
Admiral Nreeland. Not if you
mean in the same ratio.
''Mr. Gray. Would not the
same grounds exist after an in
crease for further increase?
Admiral Vreeland. 1t would
seem so.
"Mr. Gray. There would be no
advantage gained by any nation.
then. How long could that be
maintained, that even increase,
and what advantage would it be
to any nation.
admiral Vreeland. If it con-
tinues to increase, the poorer ma
ton will eventually exhaust it.
self, and then the other nations,
the United States included, will
have a free hand-I mean be free
to build in accordance with the
changed conditions.
mr.. Gray. Then it is only a
question of the limit of taxation?
Admiral .Vreeland. Yes, SIR
In other words, the only thing
that the international war trust
has to fear on the score of reduce
ton Of profits is the limit Of the