New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-12-04
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY,
navy League MANAGES
NOW PLAN FOR THE
Flu TURE.
By Frederick Monroe.

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the repare mess campaign Is
won. They are turning then
eyes to the future. An e@tremt-
iv significant change OF tdc,lcS Is
about to take p.a,c ii the policy
OF the Navy League. Your cor
respondent is able to announce
now, somewhat in advance OF the
League itself, that the League IS
planning one of the bi~~ost cam
paigns for membership that it has
ever undertaken. ard i IS pre-
pairing for the future; not the
present.
The League is convinced that
the f"ht for big armament Is won
now; what it is interested in is
in keeping up the prepared
ness program into the com
ing years. This new move
means that we may expect to have
the League with us year in and
year ort continuously. 1t means
the maintenance of this power
full lingo lobby in Washington
for the purpose of seeing that
Congress comes through" reg
u.ur.y with ii DYs navy program.
A brilliant young newspaper
man of Washington has been
hired by the League, giving up a
lucrative business to accept the
position, and is soon to start In
on the work of organization. 1t is
planned to extend the League
into every corner of the land.
The present plan is to get one
hundred prominent men, who are
each to plege $1,000 per annum
for the support OF the league.
This will give the league One
Hundred Thousand Dollars per
annum as special campaign
fund to preach preparedness"
This is in addition to the regular
subscriptions of members. 1t is
understood now that this COM
mittee will probably be headed by
of the Navy George
Won l.. Meyer, the gentleman who,
Just before going out of office,
signed a very peculiar contract
for armor plate for the battleship
which has since
been the subject of unpleasant
comment in Congress and out.
The significant thing about this
latest move of the Navy League
IS that it is for the future. The
Navy League gentlemen are look
ng ahead and preparing for
continuing program Of prepared
ness. Whyi
1t is doubtful if these men,
'hrewd as they are, themselves
zee all the forces which are driv- :
ng them forward il this jingo
md militaristic campaign. In
'elllgent men, do not hold indi-
RITUALS responsible for great :
movements, social or economic in :
heir nature. We do not blame '
Mr. Morgan for taking profits
rom his steel holdings. If we a
we're in Mr.. Morgan place we !,
you'd do the same thing. very !.
But great masses of =
|eople do not proceed in given :
Erection, do not form certain :
plniOns, or act in crtain ways, !.
Mess there are great fundament- ;,
causes behind such actions. =,
This movement for militarism :.
nd navalism which has gained .
pen momentum in the past few :.
eonths, has fundamental cause. ',
me fact is. the United States of .
|merica has been plunged sud "
enly forward perhaps ten, per- :,
Pps ten, perhaps twenty-five :,
ears, in her industrial develop -
(ent. Capitalism, the system of :,
foductlon for Profit, where the :.
duslrles are owned by the few q
the top, and the mass at the =
Pttom are industrial wage
PVes. han been slowly develop
=. Ert the European war, has,
Re an unseasona5ly warm spell
spFingtlme. suddenly ripened
4 frult of capitalism, so that it
\ reached midsummer develop
nt before the springtime is well
BIT.
or instance: Figures Just
'd &c public by the U. S. Bureau
Foreign and Domestic Com
rec, reveal new high records
nmerlcan export trade and ex-
balance. September, 1915
ports 'totalled 1927, 766,75O and
eeded by $79.526,749 the total
September, 1913 and by s141,-
+, that for September, 1914.
lhe same time September inn
. tins year were only $751;
'o5l. being less by $19,662, O12