Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-23
We Furnish Sinews Of War.

we Furnish SlneWe or war.
Owing mainly to the shipment Of
war supplies. our exports over i'm
ports have increased from s57.o0O.ooO
in October and s79.oo0.oo0 in No
vember to about 100000 900 in De-
cember We are now sending cotton
to Germany, and wheat Is going out
in such quantities that the exportable
surplus Of the greatest crop on rec
ord may be exhausted In two or three
months. Charles M. Schwab, presi-
dent Of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, who has cancelled his British
order for twenty submarines. says
he knows that orders for 100000
600 worth Of war supplies have been
placed in this country. His own or
ders for armor plate, projectiles,
guns. etc. are said to exceed $780,
100000. At Kansas City $5,000,0O0
worth Of horses and mules have been
marketed and a contract was signed
there last week for 100000 feet OF
lumber, mainly for railroads and
mines. Factories in four cities are at
work on an order for 6000,000 kegs
of horseshoes. Among recent orders
in addition to those mentined here
tofore in these pages are the follow
ing: 5000 kitchen wagons, for the
French army; at New Kensington,
Pennsylvania, 100000 aluminium can
teens; at Pittsburgh, $4,000, 900
worth Of barbed or plain wire, and
10000 tons Of steel for shrapnel
shells; in New York, 100000 pairs
Of wooden socks, 200, 900 overcoats,
100000 blouses and 100000 pairs Of
trousers; in Philadelphia, $500, 900
pairs Of socks. 1t is said that Russia
is in the market for 100000 yards
of cloth for uniforms, and that the
British Government is preparing
specifications for $500 motor trucks
for which something more than $780,
100000 will be paid
Two reflections are reported. Clar-
ence H. Howard, president Of a steel
company whose works are at Granite
City, Illinois, refused an order for
s2,ooO,O00 worth Of shells for field
guns because he would not help wal =
fare. An order for 100000 steel ar
away by William c. Collins Of Peoria,
Illinois, because he thought the ex-
ecution of it would be against neu-
trality
a letter to the Washington Post
reads:
Do we wish for peace? Do not
our factories send to Europe untold
quantities Of arms and supplies with
very different purpose in mind
And do we, as nation, oppose it?
Are not many Of tho "sheIIs and the
cannon making a hell on earth
largely supplied by ourselves? Do
you oppose it, while praying for
peace?
And the Post admits that the ma
ton does not oppose the shipment OF
supplies to the nations at war, nor
does the Post oppse it." 1t adds:
The people Of the United States make
their living honestly by producing and
selling articles of commerce If they
We're to quit producing and selling arti-
cles needed by Europe, they would i'm
pose a great hardship upon themselves
and still further increase the handica ps
under which they labor, but they would
not thereby bring about peace. Other
nations would furnish what We refused
TO furnish, and the war would go on,
The people of the United States would
be thrown out Of work without benefitine
in the least their fellowmen in Europe
That is the logic Of every traffic
under the sun which Christ would
discountenance. The barkeeper who
is ashamed Of his humanity business
excuses himself with: Some one else
would do 1t if didn't. so might as
we'll have what there is in it,"