The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-03-03
ENGLAND LENGTHENING THE
AMERICAN BREAD LINE

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gland is running cur trade just
as she has forced Belgium into
an unwilling martyrdom.)
Sympathy for the Belgians is
|. general in America and England
has taken every advantage of
that feeling to hide her tracks IN
the work of destroying Ameri-
can commerce on the high seas.
The average American citizen is
a curious combination of the
Yankee trader and the senti-
mentalist.
But we soon forget our SYM
pathy and reaction sets in when
the principal American nerves,
the pocket nerves, ache and
throb too long. He,is blind in
deed who fails to see that the
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German cause has greatly ad
vanced in the month of January
1915. in all sections of the United
States. Not only is Thought
gradually working itself clear,
but the American, who wants to
be fair, is beginning to warm
towards the side where 100, ,000,.
900 struggle against 100000, 900,
and with the products of the
rest of the world aiding this
huge majority and neutral coun.
tries working over time supply
ing the Allies alone with ar:na-
ment and war supplies. Over
topping all, the American is
commencing to realize that canny
England, not Germany.is depriv
ing the United States of her
! commerce. Never does a Ger
man man of-wdr seize an Amer
lean ship for contraband. All
of these outrage.s have been per
petrated by the ruler of the
seas. At last Uncle Sam is awake
and is questioning England, as
she questioned her in 1861 and
the average citizen is sitting up
and taking notice of the answer.
| The cotton planters down
south last year, who sold Ger.
many 1850, 1000 bales of cotton,
are forgetting some of Belgium's
horrors in their own woes as
they realize that the British en-
barge cut off the German and
Austrian market, drove cotton
down to famine prices, enabled
the shrewd English cotton mill
buyers to buy cotton at a fright
tul loss to the American planter
and, at huge profit to the En-
glish buyer. Your cotton
planter writing letters oy the
thousands now telling how the
English worked the most sue
cessful trade trick known to
man and, after making the
planter practically give away
his cotton, then lifted cotton
from the contraband list so that
Germany and Austria would pay
more for cotton, but all at the
expense of the cotton-growers
of the south. The sunburnt
man under the soft wool hat in
Dixie is digging up his school
histories these days to remind
his neighbors of Marion the
Swamp Fox who hunted the
British redcoats out of South
Carolina, and he is reading up
the rifemen Of the swamps and
forests of the Southland who
drove the last remnants Of Great
Britain from the United States
in 1915 when Andrew Jackson,
the son of an expatriated Irish
linen weaver, from Carrickfer-
gus, defeated Pakenham at New
Orleans. And when he consid.
ers his cotton losses and the his
tory Of his country, his view
point Of Germany changes Won
derfully.
Great Britain has destroyed
the commerce Of the United
States, an innocent party in the
war, with Germany, Austria
Hungary. and Turkey and to an
important extent with neutralS
like Denmark, Holland and Italy.
Her policy of starving Germany
out is actually creating more
cases of starvation in the United
States than in Germany. There
are few unemployed in Germany
because the government has sue
ceeded in paying wages, through
public and private work, to all
left at home.
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