The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-04
ENGLAND WOULD PREFER
AMERICA TO SUPPLY
BILLION, FIVE HUNDRED MILLION
IN WAR ORDERS.
Correspondent Does Not Think United
States Is Doing Right In Sup
plying Munitions Of War.
Editor Herald and News:

a paragraph from UCe CO1uuUha HSoo-
ord as follows: England is too
darned anxious for US to fall out with
Germany. Most of the disturbing news
items come from London" And then
YOU accuse the Record of speaking "a
parable and great truth" and that
ENGLAND has been trying that game
all through the war;
Would it not be hitting nearer the
mark to have said that England ias
been assiduously working to justify
/ the assistance which she and her allies
have been receiving from this country
for some time,an to assure continu-
alton of that assistance?
And does it not seem logical that
Great Britain and her allies would
! much prefer American factories to
continue to work double and triple
time manufacturing rifles, shrapnel,
shells, cartridges, gunpowder and 9TH
er explosives, CLOTHING, shoes, tenting
and, in fact, every conceivable muni-
s1ion of war, and then allow Great Brit
ain to transport American passengers
bn the same vessels carrying these
supplies and munitions as protection
to their cargoes, than for the United
States to become embroiled in the
Bwar?
Does it. not seem most desirable,
from bae viewpoint of the allies, when
the Washington government insists
that whether a vessel be transporting
rifles, cartridges and other munitions
! that are not self-explosive, and is not
Harmed to exceed 6-ineh guns, that it
may also carry passengers, and that
passenger vessels must not be molest-
ed by submarines?
e The Cymbric left New York on May
10 with 5000 tons of war material in
her holds, 'little less than a floating
arsenal A ships officer referred to
this cargo as ''food for the Germans.
They get it hypodermically!" But our
soTernment allows them to masquer-
sde a boat carrying this sort of car
ISgo as a passenger vessel"
why?
William B. Joyce, president of the
National Surety company of New York,
said on last Saturday that s1,5OO,0OO,-
900 of war orders have been placed in
the United States Just think of bill
j lion and i've hundred millions of dol
lars! The amount earned by hun
dred and fifty thousand skilled work
men at a thousand dollars year.
Naturally the capitalists controlling
these orders would not have Germany's
submarine interfering with ocean
traffic
a A dispatch in Sunday paper from
EDetroit, Mich, says Russia has just
placed at 3,7O1,OOO order in that city,
divided between three nrms, and that
there are now fifteen concerns in De-
/ troit making war supplies.
i Pfttsburg steel and iron manufac-
sturing concerns are working day and
night turning out shells and shrapnel,
as are like industries at other places.
Then, all the manufacturers of gun
4 nesH6er and other explosives have
Doubled, trebled and quadrupled the
Bize of their plants and are working
continuously to supply death-dealing
material to Europe.
y Of course, one could put one hand be-
hind ones back and tell that the capi-
kalists who are fattening their already
Rat piles have no Influence" at Wash
gington, whose neutrality seems to be
<'I won't hit him myself, but I'll tote
you all the rocks you can fling
In France last week there was
Agreat ado over expressions of appre-
citation of the friendship of the United
States to France during the present
war.
Observation-Disclosures bosh some
more.
q Do you not think it would be more
humanitarian-not to say Christian
for the Washington government to
york out a way to embargo all ship
nents of any form of war munitions
from the United States for at least a
5eriod of one year, and tell Americans
10 keep off boats entering the war
Spe, at least until,G Great Britain ceases
starvation policy and allows pro-
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