The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-09-02
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Free'Traders Give Credit To Under
wood When War orders Real
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One need not be captain of indus. |
try like Mr. Alba b. johnson nor n
magnate Of high finance like Mr.. Geo.
W. Perkins TO understand that at the |
conclusion of the war the United
States is likely to be confronted by |
an exceptionally serious situation. |
Any one with an average modicum
Of common sense and fair capacity
for profting from the teachings OF ex.
perience can recognize the dangers
by which in this respect the country
Is confronted. Democratic defenders
OF and apologists for the present ad.
ministration and champions OF the
legislation at which Wilson's behest
a Democratic Congress has during
past three years enacted, never tire
Of talking about the wonderful pros
perity which American people are
row enjoying and they profess to be
very sure that IL has come to stay.
They are, however, unable to give
any convincing reasons for their con.
fidence, and the facts which they find
IL CONVENIENT to ignore are against
them.
Every one who knows anything at
all or who is competent to form an
intelligent and disinterested opinion
upon the subject Is perfectly well ac-
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this much.vaunted prosperity is deriv.
| ed. It all comes from the immense
/ orders for war munitions which have
been placed here by certain of the
belligerent nations of Europe. or
course, this is not admitted by the
Democratic politicians and newspa'
per organs. They insist that 1t rests
upon substantial basis and will
prove enduring and to support this
view they lay great stress upon the
wide extension and the varied char
acter Of the industrial activity prevail
ing. They say that 1t is not confined
to the manufacture of war muniti ms,
but that all along the line trade and
business are booming and that no
one who wants employment at wages
better than have ever heretofore been
paid need look far to find 1t.
There is a good deal of eXagger-
alton in all that and already indica'
lions are here and there discernibie
that the maximum of the movement
has been reached and passed that a
reaction has set in and that the ude
which, taken at the flood has led on
to so many fortunes is beginning 10
recede. But in this connection the
point TO be made is that any existing
activity in other fields of enterprise
than the production Of war munitions
Is distinctly traceable to the enorm'
Gus purchases Of the European pow
ers. II has recently been stated that
the war orders have aggregated the
almost uncomfortable total of three
billion dollars. Perhaps that Is an
excessive estimate, but 1t is probably
not very far from the truth and it Is
easily to imagine what stimulating
= effect this colossal expenditure mus'
, have had on all Industrial ana com
4 mercial interests.
!. The distribution of millions OF DOL
I lars among the workers has ihoraih
!. ateI,, increased their buying capacity
X In the expressive slang OF the street
|. they have had money to burn ana j
h T. 10 their augmented expenditures
n that the prosperity upon which tho
supporters of the Wilson admihistra
r. ton plume themselves and Tor whic'
il they do not hesitate to take credi
n is plainly attributable.
=. II is only necessary to recall I'M
r conditions that existed before the wa
n "a realize what may be expected
bappen when the artificial st'muiu
n which the war has furnished shai
have been removed. Some may nav
n. forgotten them, for the average men
-e DRY is short, and by happy u''po,
n sation of Providence yesterdays SUI
1t ferings quickly pass from the mine
IN but there are many who Will remen
AZ her that here In Philadelphia durih
At the winter of 1894, as in every o
e. her great Industrial city throushou
m the land, men and women VINO wer
IN reduced to standing in bread lines an
to taking their turns at soup Kitchen
70 in order to mitigate their huhs'
is pangs. Not since the winter OF 1855
It when the manufacturing industries
the country had been paraiy1ea
Is the enactment OF the near Free lra'
x. Wilson Tariff, had distress peeh
A. ,,o .nread or acute. Not since the