Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-25

redcoats out OF South Carolina, and
he is reading up the riflemen 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 Carrickfergus, defeated
Pakenham at New Orleans And
when he considers his cotton losses
and the history of his country, his
viewpoint Of Germany changes won
derfully
Great Britain has destroyed the
commerce of the United States, an
innocent party in the war, with Ger
many, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey
and to an important extent with neu-
trails like Denmark. Holland and
Italy. Her policy of starving Ger
many 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 succeeded in
paying wages, through public and
private work, to all left at home.
Let us see why so many workmen
in American agricultural factories
are idle. Last year Germany bought
of us $3.000,000 worth of mowers
and reapers, hay rakes $4,000,
planters $4,000, plows S213,00O,
threshers $2610OO. At $3.50 per
day in wages that loss accounts for
nearly 5000 idle men. In brass
goods she took S1,642,00O, which
loss throws 1000 brass-workers out
of work Starving out the Germans
and Austrians will cost the farmers
of the United States not less than
$40, 100000 in year.
Germany absorbs one-half of the
exported American woodalcohol used
in the arts. Last year she with
Austria took $50.000.000 of our cop
per and copper wares. Averaging
the wages of the Montana and
Michigan miners at $4 per day that
means 10000 copper-miners and
workers added to the bread line. In
bleached cotton cloth she took from
us 81, 100000, cotton waste, $1,000
600, corsets, $88,000, mixed goods,
$178,000, phosphate, $2,700,000,
binder twine, $4,000, dried apples,
$1,208,000. ripe apples, $1,209,000,
apricots, 100000, peaches, $780,
600, prunes, $2,110,O00, glue, $751;
600, rubber goods, $1,200,000,
shoes. S132,000. iron and steel pro-
ducts, $4,80O,00O, adding machines,
S370.000, cash registers, $1,20O,OOO.
Now figures are usually dry read
ing and we will not continue, but the
statement can be safely made that
England, by declaring practically
everything contraband intended for
Germany and Austria. excepting cot
ton, has thrown out of employment
and reduced to a state of want from
100000 to 100000 men, to say moth
ing of the fearful curtailment of
trade and traffic in other directions.
The oldest living Americans recall
the days when the American flag
flew over thousands of fast clippers,
when more than three-fourths Of the
commerce of his country was carried
in American bottoms. He reads
from his history how England took
advantage of the Civil War to seize
American trade and, having de-
stroyed our commerce as our country
lay prostrate, the Oldest citizen is
surprised at the present generation
which seems supine and helpless to
protect its own products from the
dominant power on the high seas.
The patriotic American is insisting
on an aswer to the duery why Amer
lean products on the high seas should
not be held as sacred as though they
were on land The world may be
suffering from Militarism. but Amer
lea surely is declining because she
is held at the mercy of a relentless
foreign Navyism.