French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-17

"a starting Q0claFaIlons m1nQ you
is not made by some misinformed OF
designing politician with a yaultina
ambition, but by the fully informed
Commander-in-chief of the army and
navy of this countryside President Of
the United States of America. l.
there a sane person anywhere who
believes he would have emphasized
such a warning if he did not believe hi
was not only fully justified by doins
so. but that it was his duty to do it?
Yet there are skeptics who forcS
themselves into the one of notice and
declare such things are not only un-
likely, but impossible.
This element was loud-mouthed be-
fore the outbreak of the present great
var,-great wars had passed away and
taken their place in history to stay
there, said they but a rude awaken
ing came and almost like a clap OF
thunder from a clear sky in its sud
dGnness and unexpectedness. Yet
some skeptics, even yet, persist in
trying to make others believe that they
think such things impossible"
Some of the notes which Uncle Sam
has SEM to foreign capitals have nee
essarily created much bitterness, and
tEey are full of grim personalities.
Il has been a common thing in this
country for one to ask, well does
anyone know what they are fighting
about over there " And the reply
usually has been, why, the soldiers
don't know themselves what they are
fighting for"
Now COWS Professor Howerth who
tells u.s.. in the scientific Monthly, that
wars will continue as long as econ
omic conditions remain as they are /;
that commerce becomes a sword, set
ting at enmity those who are rivals for
the same markets"
The assassination Of an archduke
was only the striking of the match for
the powder-magazine which was al.
- - - - e Ga ~ ~ 49,
ready wide open and waiting an excuse
for explosion. The German army was
in full panoply of war and the British
navy was trained to the minute.
The ostensible was not the real
cause or reason for the wholesale
slaughter that has almost swept the
eastern hemisphere with the 1urid bat,
elesfres Of the most awful and most
war In the history of the hui
man race.
There is a quotation from PROBES
'6r2 Howerth's article which throws
he superficial into the discard:
Nations are in constant competition
'o- markets. for trade routes, for op-
for expansion, ome gain,
'thers lose. Naturally, hostile feel
ngs r evoked, government Ia ap-
sealed to. international disputes arise
nd becoming acute wars are a~sclar-
ID and IRE waged to promote the in
of the dominant Industrial
.lasses."
That takes into account the actual,
sot the seeming.
Now, the United States of America
reaching out" for business and
1mmerce as never before in u history
branches of our banks are being es-
ablished everywhere. We are search
ag for markets. We are looking for
hose things which others will try 10
egain when they are not engaged in
Ie present !
1t is no wonder that the President
bould say that he does not know what
ur international relations will be to-
1t is not surprising that General
food declares we are already menaced
ON all sides.
1t is not astonishing that ii is writ
n by high authority that when a-
ons embark extensively in the same
of industry they stand toward
.ch other as did two Indian tribes
hen there was but game enough for
Ut one,' in the earlier history of this
Nor is there any reason to- believe
nat economic conditions will change |!
l a hurry. Therefore we, cannot arm :
20 soon. We cannot carry out tho
residents program for national pre-
aredness an hour earlier than advfsa-
lie. Let Congress act as promptly as
cssible. The people will surely en-
orse speedy action. There is not the
doubt about it.