Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-05-11


J. W. Fordney, Of Saginaw, Michigan.
In fact this paper fully recognizes the
friend Grays Harbor has had for many
years in Mr. Fordney, whose long SER
vice and recognized ability has made
him power in the House of Repre-
sentatives. Yet we are constrained
to take issue with him on the speech
he made last Thursday night at the
republican banquet.
For instance, it is beneath the dig
nifty of statesman of the prominence
Of Mr. Fordney to say. as he was
quoted in the Aberdeen World, Dem
ocratic hard times, etc." Conceding
rs far as the best of personal feel.
ing may 60, the best friend Of the
congressman must admit that such q
statement belongs to the cross roads
agitator, not to a man perfectly fami-
liar with conditions and Of the &C.
knowldeged ability Of Congressman
Fordney.
No-one knows better than. our friend
Fordney that Of a total population of
the world, estimated at 1920 900, 900,
925.000,000 persons reside in the coun.
tries and colonies, directly involved
in the, present war. He knows per.
fectly we'll that more than one-half
Of the worlds surface is engaged in
this gigantic struggle. He knows
equally well that the war has paralyz-
ed the commerce of the world; that
international commerce disappeared
from the seas at the rate of more than
$4,000, 000, 900 per month; that during
the first five months of the war the
international trade was cut down
from $4OO0O,OOO.00O to $24,OOO,O0O,-
900; that before the war the trade
of the United States with the coun-
tries at war comprised $1,000, 900, 900
Excluding the colonies), of it's total
annual foreign trade Of $3,900,000,0
Mr.. Fordney is one Of the best sta
tisticians today in congress, so we say
without hesitation that he knows. Few
know better than he that the war has
driven the German merchant marine,
comprising 1888 vessels from the sea-
that the foreign trade of Germany,
Hungary and Belgium, which repre-
scented about % per cent of the trade
Of the world has practically vanished;
that England has taken out Of the
foreign merchant marine service L.
200 vessels out of her total member
of 1926 and that 400 vessels engag-
ed in South Acknowledgment trade
were suddenly withdrawn, all of those
factors so disturbing the commerce
Of the world that the surprising fea.
ture Of the situation, as viewed by
the worlds ablest financiers, is that
the United States stood the jar SO
well. The fact il that at the outbreak
Of the war the United States owed
Europe about $4,000, 100000; that
$500. 100000 of this was practically
due and our European creditors were
demanding payment in gold, and with
the demand threatened to dump upon
us immense blocks Of stocks and
bonds which they held. Democrat.
ic Hard Times" indeed. The civilis.
ed world is today thanking Providence
that the administration at Washing
ton has the steady head of Woodrow
Wilson at the helm.
For more than thirty years, the tar.
III schedules have been the ultimate
resource of shifty politicians, for OBJ
vious reasons. Of the 100, 0O0. 900 per-
sons in the United States it is mat
ter Of serious doubt If 100 fully com.
prehend that wonderfully. fearfully
and Outlines secretly made law. To
construe this requires the services Of
hundreds of experts on each schedule,
in the treasury department and at