Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-09
Saturday, October 9, 1915,
SEAL w eAlN sY lie VIZ

SHALL WE GAIN BY THE WARP
1--WE sit at our desks and rake in the profits and
chuckle in the thought that the Allies in Europe are
lighting our battles for us while we grow rich at the
cost Of their blood and treasure Never was there great
err error You cannot sell wooden nutmegs to Almighty
God"
SO writes anonymous correspondent in one OF the
big metropolitan papers And he advances striking
Of arguments calculated to recall compacent Amer
leans to a sense Of the real state of things.
After the war. he remarks the European nations
wasting their wealth war will strive to regain it by
the exercise of the economy they driven
to. They will be helped by revival Of religion and
stinenins Of moral fiber by of national unity
by the vgor that usually in the wake of
when nation weakened by its losses. They will
enjoy wider of governmental powers for the
general benefit
Thus out of the wreokage may arise Europe
The Old World will be prostrae It's industrial and
commercial competition win be unprecdently keen. We
may be hard put it to hold And in the face
Of that situation, what shall We do?
after the war" says this critic with bitter cynicsm
eve shall waste our wealth in familiar ways but faster
than before crop munitions millionares Will
help lords of and squander nations
and before, they squander will not
be merely wealth but the product Of a tax on future
industry through the watered stocks at false val
ues After peace is signed American travellers American
'colonists and American girls to foreign titles
will spend twice much money abroad as ever before
immigration win be resumed in great volume and the
money immigrants send home will reach new records.
Here too, the picture is dark. Europe's sacrifice OF
blood is great but at least it is fairly uniform through
all Of A
for us
"The loss by battle and disease the Atlanti,
is not comparable to the sacrifice we are making no
this and last year alone but every year through
the refusal the intelligent native American won
en- to reproduce their kind. Not France not Berlin car
parallel the frghtfu havoc that has been made in ou
native through Of the right fit
be born, which is turning northeastern United state
into a European annex peopled chiefly by the ignoran,
In general we losing moral and intellectual lead
ershp faster every year by this than Europe
losing it in exceptional years the battlefield"
The writer let Is admit, an extremist The outoo
is not so black as be depicts it, Nevertheless there
much truth in his words that they ought be taken {
heart by every AmeHcan-not prophecy destined t
inevitable ulfment, but warning Of evils whic
can be overcome
1t is certain that if seek benefit unduly from th
woes Of the rest OF the shall disappointed
It certain that if suffer misfortmes ror
this conflict equalng exceeding the accidental BEN
fits il has brought must learn from the tn
same lessons that the bellgerents are Learning on
advantage that may, if we will, learn the lesson
without paying so huge a price.
America needs to learn economy and stop wasting b
buhnght It needs revival Of religion. renassanC
of spiritual and national faith 1t needs more Sparta
morals. It needs discipline in every department
life It needs more Industrial commercial and cover
mental efficiency