The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-03-18
ENGLAND IS LENGTHENLNG
THE AMERICAN BREAD LINE

sympathy for the Belgians Is gen
rral In America and England hns
taken every advantage Of that feeling
to hide her tracks In the work " de
strOylnE American commerce on the
high seas The average American
citizen Is Il curious combination Of the
Yankee trader and the sentimentalist
But we soon forget our sympathy
and reaction sets In when the principal
American nerves the pocket nerves
ache and thrOb too long He Is blind
Indeed who fails to SEE that the Ger
man cause has greatly advanced In
the month Of January, 1915, In all sec
lions of the United States. Not only
Is thought gradually working itself
clear hut the American, who wants
tu be- fair. N beginning to warm to
wards the side where 100000, 900 peO
pie struggle against 7OOOOO,OOO, aud
with the products Of the rest Of the
world aiding this huge majority and
neutral countries working over tim,
supplying the allies alone with arma
ment aud war supplies. OyertOppinp
all, the American is commencing tC
realize that canny England, not Ger
many, is deprlvlng the United State,
NJ her commerce Never does n Ger
man mHn.Of war seize an American
ship for contraband All Of these out
RACES have been perpetrated by the
ruler Of the seas At last Uncle San
Is awake and IL questioning England
as she questioned her In 1891 and the
average citizen is Sitting up and tax
ing notice ~ the answer.
The cotton planters down south last
year who sold Germany 2,35O, ,OOC
bales Of cotton, are forgetting somt
ot belgiums horrors In their Owr
woes as they realize that the British
embargo cut off the German and Aus
trlan market, drove cotton down Il
famine prices, enabled the shrewd
English cotton mill buyers to buy cot
ton nt frightful loss tO the American
planter and, at huge profit TO the
English buyer Your cotton planter (,
writing letters by the thousands nov
telling how the English worked the
most successful trade trick known tC
man and, after making the planter
practically give away his cotton. ther
lifted cotton from the contraband list
M that Germany and Austria would
pay more for cotton. but all at the
expense Of the cotton growers Of the
south. The sunburnt man under IN,
soft wool hat In Dixie is digging III
his school histories these DAYS 10 re-
mind his nelghbors Of Marion IN,
swamp Fox who hunted the British
redcoats out Of South Carolina. and
he Is reading up the riflemen Of the
swamps and forests Of the southland
who drove the last remnant uf Great
Britain from the United States I'm 1915
when Andrew Jackson, the son " an
eXpatriated Irish linen weaver. from
Carrickfergus. defeated pakenham ni
New Orleans, And when he consider,
his cotton losses and the history of
his country, his viewpoint Of Germany
changes wonderfully.
Great Britain has DESTROYED the
commerce OF the United States. an In.
nOcent 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 Germa
nay out II 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 pay.
Ing wages, through public and private
work to all left ut home.