The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-10-26
DO NOT BE MISLEO.

So much that is silly passes among
some Democrats for truth supporting
the sophistries emsnating from the
White House that it would deserve no
attention were it not that failure to ex.
pose it might seem to confirm its verify.
No superior intelligence is necessary to
understand that our prosperity is found
ed on war business. 1t is las plain as
the nose on your face"
If one of TWO neigborlng and COM
peting towns were suddenly to be
closed to ordinary industry and the
trade Of surrounding country, usual
ly divided between them diverted to the
! town remaining open, would you regard
its access of business as due to the
craftsmanship Of the mayor of that
place, and as assuring its permanent
commercial leadership when the tenn
porary prostration of the rival town
were at an END?
| Or, if 10 per cent of the industries of
town were suddenly called upon to
provide temporarily for a distant city
all they could make of their special
products at extraordinarily high prices
and in quick time, resulting in con-
| petitive demand for raw materials, for
labor at higher wages and for trans
portation facilities beyond normal, with
an inflow of cash such as never had
been known before don't you suppose
that whole town would feel the impulse
Of the new business and become pros
porous to a degree not before dreamed
of? Would you attribute the good
fortune to good management at home?
Or, if your town, depending upon out
side sources for its labor supply, were
suddenly to be deprived of a goodly
number of Its workers by their scurry-
ing to distant points to engage in war
and the same war prevented the Gus
tomary accessions Of laborers to your
community, thereby causing wage ad-
vances for the limited number remain
ing, due to competition for their ser
vics, would you consider the mayor and
common council entitled to medal for
| increasing the prosperity of your town?
| And, if all these conditions arose fol-
lowing period of industrial stagnation
in your town due as you knew to the
refusal of the authorities to cooperate
with the community and their imposing
conditions that made it difficult or i'm
possible for the merchants and man
ufacturers to conduct their enterprises
in normal times because more consiQera
| ton was given to outside than to home
industries, would you consider the happy
reversal something for which you had
to thank the inept government? Would
you-cOuld you be made to-believe
that when the emergency orders had
been fulfilled there would not be a re-
lapse to the previous distressing condi-
tons if the authorities, clinging 10 the
old policies and declaring against all
common sense that they had produced
the prosperity and it would endure.
were they retained in office?
In the imaginary community made
the subject of our interrogations the
situation is fundamentally that OF the
United States today. Our prosperity is
very real, but it is not permanent. 1t
cannot last longer than the extraordi-
nary demand for our goods due to the
prostration of industry in belligerent
lands lasts, unless we provide protection
against them. They are looking for
ward to the economic struggle after
the war of arms. They all will be out
to pluck the United State. And they
will strip US if we do not adopt measures
of safety and security. President Will
son and his Democratic followers re-
ject the truth. They will do nothing
for America. The facts of experience
and common sense appeal to them not
at all. But you know, if you but stop
to consider. We must prepare for the
| future of American industry. The Re-