The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
PREPAREDNESS roR PEACE.

An0 bO-Caileu FTS6iuenN 3 ran Tor
a better preparedness for the nation.
contemplates only armed foes from with
out. That Is all right, for a nation
needs an efficient police as much as
does a city. But preparedness within
a nation is sometimes more necessary
than to build defenses against possible
foes without.
The war din Europe will finally wear
itself out, and then what? Every ma
tion will be PROSTATE under an almost
unbearable weight of debt It's only
means of rf,cuperating Will be through
trade. Some millions Of workers, skill
ed and unskilled. will be required to
nil the places OF those who have died,
but many will seek foreign lands These
will be OF three classes. Some we'll to
do who will leave to avoid the fearful
taxation; some of brave and enterprise
ing spirit. who will have determined that
with recuperation, under their forms of
government another war win be precip-
itated. but the great majority will be
the abjectly poor classes.
Most OF these will gravitate to our
shores, and win enter into direct COM
petition with our own lowly workers.
Are the president and congress devils
ing any plans of preparedness to meel
these invaders or to meet the competi-
ton in trade which those at home will
spring upon us?
Are they great enough to fairly con-
slider the defects OF the Underwood law
and to revise 1t?
Have they advanced to a full appre-
citation of the absolute need of an Amer
lean merchant marine to carry away
what we have to sell and bring back
what we buy?
This last, II established, would give
quite three hundred thousand men en-
ployment In building and sailing the
ships and In supplying the coal and
iron ore needed, and in carrying them
to the points of reduction. That would
represent one million five hundred thou
sand people With ships running in
regular lines and with full assurance
that they would continue to run on
those zines one effect would be to draw
away vast numbers Of men who would
be uned by the cheap lands of Spanish
America.
The next census will show that the
population Of two or three of our mid
continent northern states has not much
|
That same cheap land lure drew tens
of thousands OF them across the line tic
Canada, where sometimes stabbed do
nestle animals freeze to death in thei1
stalls
With permanent steamship line es.
tablished between New YORK; Para, Per.
nambuco. Bahia. Rio Santos and Bueno
Ayres and some active land agents put
in those fields. 1t would be easy t.
draw thousands Of men who want
homes that way. Another duty wait.
on congress. which is to throttle Pin
chotism in the west and give the earn
est state builders OF the west an ever
show to work.
Again, the secretary OF the interior
should get a move on and see II soms
new fields cannot be opened for homes
toEers.
We read last week that a body o.
Irishmen had gone TO England to take
passage to the United States; that tn.
steamship company refused to receiv,
them on board. and the people outsid.
called them traitors for wanting t,
evade military service. What has Eng
land done for Ireland to invoke the low
of Irishmen?
A government that does mt take ew
cry possible obstacle from the path o
ITS people. cannot win and hold thei
love.-Goodwin's Weekly.