Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-27
SENATOR BoRAH's PERIsCoPI

Sen AlOR bOhAH'S > PERISCOPE
MO clearer exposition of Republi-
IN can doctrine and policies has
been made than the statement
of United States Senator Borah this
week. Intead of undue emphasis
upon preparedness for war the Idaho
statesman sounds as his slogan Pre-
pare for Peace" He believes that the
real job of the statesmen of this coun-
try is not preparation for war, al
though he declares that the United
States should be always ready to as
sert its rights under all circumstances,
but is the working out of an effective
defense against invasion by European
manufacturers after the war.
Senator Borah suggests that the
tariff laws ought to be readjusted on
broad scale because the United States
will have to fight as never before, not
only to maintain its foreign markets,
but to retain those at home. Many
Democrats take this view of the mat
son administration to further harass
business by theoretical policies and i'm
practical regulative measures.
In the judgment of Senator Borah,
the next Republican national conven-
ton will write such a broad and
liberal platform that there will be no
further question of the reuniting of
the Republican party. and this reunion
will mean the winning of the election
next year. He points to the harmon
ious conditions in the Republican
party in Massachusetts as disclosing
the general situation elsewhere in the
country and concludes in these words:
The campaign of 1916 will be an
exceedingly interesting campaign,
In many respects the most vital and
absorbing for years. 1t will in
Volve many questions connected
with our foreign policy, the Just
and proper protection of the rights
and lives of American citizens at
home and abroad, the read1dstment
of the tariff. wise and sound sys-
tenn of rural credits, which, by the
way, is as important a question as
we now have up for consideration,
ana merchant marine act, and j
have never In my brief years of
observation known the electorate
more deeply interested in all these
questions than 1T is now"
Corroboratlve of the conclusions of
Senator Borah is an article in Every
body's for November dealing with
business after the European war. 1t is
from the pen of John II. Fahey, presi-
dent of the United States Chamber of
Commerce, who is thoroughly familiar
with the business situation and with
the problem involved in an adjustment
of the complex matters affecting our
prosperity. Mr.. Fahey discusses the
difficulties ahead in a clear and concise
way and observes that after the war
there must be a tremendous amount
of rebuilding and repair He saws
further:
1t is said that after peace is de-
clared we must expect a tremend-
Gus dumping of cheap goods from
Europe. If we undergo that ex-
perience it will be our own fault.
for we can prevent it.
It is claimed that there will be
a liquidation of wages across the
Atlantic and that labor costs will
go down l am not CONVINCED on
that point With practically all
in numbering their best and most
efficient men, with a tremendous
able to them, | do not yet see why
wage costs should go down.
In general, / believe that the
aftermath of the war will be
largely influenced by the kind of
settlement which is effected. If
settlement is reached which may
make practically impossible for ali
time a repetition of the present
confiagration, the resultant relief
to mankind will greatly stimulate
progress.
All the American writers and think
ers capable of analyzing conditions are
of one mind as to the necessity of pre-
pairing for the assaults which will GER
tainly be made upon the capital and
labor of the United States after the
oversea cataclysm.