Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-01-28
NEW YORK NEWS LETTER.
William Writ Mills Views of Things
i'll the Metropolis.


New York, Jan. 22.-Preparedness
the presidency and the projected Brit
ish blockade are the three issues that
are deeply stirring the metropolis
these days. The order of Importance
is measured by the man in the street,
is as given above, but politicians are
almost completely engrossed in the
line up for the nominations, while
manufacturing and trading interests
are more concerned as to the effects
likely TO result from Great Britain's
proposal to tie up the Teutonfc bel
ligerents as one would tic up n cat
in bag.
There are factors in this situation
the effect of which it is impossible TO
forecast. For be it noted that if Eng
land does decide to pull the drawing
strings and enclose Germany and Aus
tria within its huge blockade scheme,
inevitably will neutral nations, Nor
way, Sweden, Denmar and Holland,
be caught within the smothering folds
of the bag and it cannot be thought
that they will readily submit.
But as concerning producing and
trading interests here, the question is
not so much how these northern ma
lions will regard the proposed block
AIDE, as how it will effect the volume
and profits of the huge foreign trade
which America today enjoys.
Therefore the satisfaction felt over
England's practical admission that its
orders in council have been illegal,
fades somewhat because of the anx-
iety as to what will be the attitude
of the administration toward British
policy that will bear harder on Amer
can trade with neutral nations than
all the mass of British interference
with the trade of the United States.
1t is hardly expected, judging from
the handling of American grievances
against England, that this nation will
loom large as leader in a league of
neutral nations-but hope runs beyond
expectation. 1t may so happen after
all.
Meanwhile it is well to discount the
effects upon American prosperity of a
possible shutting. out of this nation
from the Netherlands and the Scandi-
navian markets. Foreign trade in
1915 to the tune of, $5,350,0OO 900
makes big noise, but, "The Analist"
makes it sound like atfeeble echo by
laundering out the much bigger fig
ures, 7,O00,OOO,0OO Look at it
this way-five hundred and seven bill
lions! And then grasp this fact,
namely, that this figure which looms
so high above the reach of the mag
nation is the estimate of the total
business done in the United States in
1915. Compared with this, the years
record-breaking foreign trade was
only little over one per cent of the
total commerce of the U. S. A.
The cold wave of the week seems
to have left number of presidential
aspirations somewhat frost-bitten The
most interesting development has beer
the indication that President Wilson
instead of having n cihch at St. Louis
will probably find himself in a ciincf
with Speaker Clark This may BIZ
doubted or even secuted, but as bear
ing thereon kindly note that the Pres
ident, instead of calmly awaiting tn,
delivery of unanimous nomination
on a golden platter, is being forced
not only to dicker with Tammany OF
the basis of the delivery of the New
York postoffice to that organization
but also to plan an appeal to the ranl
and file of the Democracy by speech
making swing around the 'circle.
On the side of the opposition TIN
scrimmage has assumed the guise o
masquerade, with nearly every can
didate hiding behind the bewhiskere,
face of that animated feather buster
Charles E. Hughes. Not only does tn
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