The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27

the political measures that followed tn"
war. II is In times OF peace that the ir-
rrcunCliallc ;tnta%On!9mS IF nations are
created. When you tight you SO To say,
get the hatred out If your blood by the
very cX"rtiun Of the struggle. More
over il is Il contact OF force with an
equal force. and respect is bred between
the antagonists. l!ut il would h. 4 very
sad pity if this war should b. followed
by subtle antagoni&ihs that could not be
cured in that way and that did not lead
/" mutual respect.
Erroneous Opinion.
For one thing. il is predicted that
after this WAR is Ger. Europe VIII in
some way uvcrwh"!m the United States
by her economic power and her econ
umic artaiumj%mS "a the United states.
| wonder that any thinking men can en-
terrain an opinion Of that sort IT. -
obviously based uptu singular and pro-
found ignorance.
The business of destruction has been
So successful that the materials Of eco
nomic life have h."m destroyed upon an
enormous Scalr. The debts that these
nations are pilinE up are 50 great that
tho interest on them will equal the
, whole budgets of these nations before
the war came on, the added interest on
the money that they are spending that
. they must take by borrowing.
And these gentlemen tell us that
these nations that have spent their best
blood and energy for this thing ar" ii
! the meantime doing what" Creating
; great bodies of goods which they are
going To ship to us and dump on us
when the war is over. Have they ever
! seen II war" Have they and imaGina-
tons" Have they and conception or
what this war means? Do they not
know that the population that is not in
the field is bent in all its concentrated
energy upon one thing. namely sustain
ing those who are in the field?
and arc they now creating dyestuits
to ruin our markets" Are they now
I manufacturing silks 10 overcome our
American silk factories: And are they
! producing the things that they have
ordinarily sent To America in such
abundance while they arc in this death
! whrlminE American
Turn III Sympathy.
"Why. my friends. we ought not to
! turn tn these people in fear. hut in
sympathy. We ought to realize that
! after This exhaustion they will need us.
and that we need not fear them. I
! would br ashamed Of anybody in Amer
lea who should regard with satisfaction
! this lowering Of the physical energy OF
/ Europe. for besides the men killed in
the field. besides the men hopclcssly
MANNED. there arc the men whose
nerves will never he 1T again for the
! exercise OF skill nr initiative or enter
! prise. The whole nervous and physical
/ do no, know how long. q generation. say,
To recover their tone. No man with Il
! heart under his jacket can regard that
! with satisfaction. and say that Will be
! Americas opportunity. if by saying
| that will be Americas opportunity he
means Americas opportunity to take
advantage of it. II will he America =
opportunity, hut it will be her oppor-
tunity to do something very much
greater than that. for. in the meantime:
look nj the situation Of the United
States.
The United States has had an indus
| trial and manufacturing revival in tho
| last two ycars such as It never expert
enced before. And when men imagine
that this is due to the trade created by
the war, they arc merely Imagining it
| because they have not read the facts.
| II you take the figures Of our commerce,
domestic and foreign included. you will
! find that the foreign commerce. even
upon the most modest reckoning Of our
| domestic commerce.. doeR not equal four
! per cent OF The total and the exports In