Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23

company jumPed ho1s three es s on
the dollar to forty sents within tAii
days, all on an original iayestaneat o
ten thousand dollars AaAked u.
alleged contrast nor supply ing vast
quantities OF amnsAition
hoteIs swsssIss
st Is surprising 10 nete tks large
number of foreigRers which tAs
has brought 70 thls cosstry fer the i
purpose o. arransing ior ustnisions
and other classes of goods for which
the war has Increased tks denaAnd
New Fork hotels as an ese ples
are filled with people, naasy of wAoln
have come over ii Tho Aopes ii pref Il
ing in some way through M wal
contracts and thrasgh the supplying
oil war materials, and no inconslael;
able portion Of theA are hangssBo on
aort of shoestring peadlers, h0piss To
pick up something ont % ths sen
saral activity il foreign trade
s.s But. aside from this surface ~ ara
BILE to get something FOR nothing The
activity based upon sound md
Inuneratiye contracts is spreadlfss to
other avenues than the raanssfaesur
OF war materials. business thronah
OUT the east has felt the impetus and
has begun 10 take heart FOR the fl
tnre. s3s
God-send 10 nemocrassc Parry.
AS a certain noted member of eOis
gress said recently, this European
war has been 4 God-send 10 the dem
|ocratic party. There was every iAais
cation that We were about % estersI
an era OF financial depression when
the war broke ont. We Ind. IN 1aet,
already begun 10 fesl the depressing
effect.
Then, like = tAnHderbelt frsM III
cloudlesB sky, came the WAT aHd bpols
i lthefeafS n began II allflbntss thi is
depression to the war. hereass ss al
aa'Inatter OF fact, the war was aarinss
us from the impending crash as5
viewed by gaans of the ssIstera yass,
iof affairs.
Wave Coming West.
| The reviving effect which the II
has given the manufacturers d War's
materials, with its resultant stimulus
10 business IN spite Of what seemed
a temporary setback, il gradually
creeping farther west until Ii has be-
gun to be felt in the great mississippi
and Missouri valleys and 4 the war
tcontinues Tor another year fand front
the war contracts already entered d.
Ito IL seems that the allies expect it
Ito be prolonged for anotAse weary The
opinion prevails that the waye ofs
prosperity which had its inception ill
the east will expand until II embraces
the whole of the United States, and
THUS out Of the appalling disaster
(which has engnlfed Europe ne bid
fair to reap a large neaanre os pro
tft
The Ford Peace Party.
h With reference to the Ford ssace
partyt Mr.. baskerville said ne WAS.
present and witnessed the depassure
| of the Ford ship for Enrepe The
| ne VEL papers he said, made censias
lerable ado over the matte and some
| OF them pictured ii as a great and en-
thusiastic event, bst noticed that,
the band which was present To FUR
nish the music as Mr. Farts's gnests
boarded the ship was composed ofi
six pieces and that the great ihrong
following In the wake or D,e FORD
contingent consisted Of less tkaa a
score CT people.
So far as ! could ascertain eastern
people regard the Ford peaee sped
ton as sort Of joke. eD giree,ied hs
a man whose renown as a mechanical
genius- has turned his head and made
him think that kings and t,t her POI tE eI,-sl
tales viii bow before him and asiS5s
him What they can do for hitn
hetller the great ado anade
the newspapers was due ta tlls s
that Mr.. Ford had ffty-six na1 1spapet
men aboard his ship cansoi sass
naturally we are led to believe hat
perhaps # had something e ao ~ " 4
il.
M Baslsss vile fnrihes remarked
that while there are many essertt an
syInpat hizers in the eassern seetioti
Of the country, the preponders iflgs
sentiment SO FAR DIS he had sonat'atf I
u, was inclined towards the alIisfs
This may be due, il pars, ne All
10 the fact that eur conniry is SO ].
closely linked with The allied nations
IN the matter f5f f;srnishiug nlfi1itfnfsg