Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-07-13
(By Dante BartOn.)

(By Dante BartOn.)
WASHINGTON, July 1S-"DemOcrat-
ic preparedness involves protection
from enemies within the country as
we'll as those without.
Financial and economic forces are
at work within every one of the great
powers that will inevitably lead to
war and conflicts with other powers.
THE activities of ammunition max
ers lead to war scares and the plung-
ing of nations into colossal expendi-
lures for ornaments.
parliamentary disclosures in Eng
land and Germany. have alike demon
strated that war scares have been pro-
moted through the subsidized press
for the purpose of inducing the gov
ernments of those nations to spend
lavishly for -battleships and munitions.
Financial imperialism is seeking to
exploit weaker nations through loans,
concessions, spheres of influence and
the closed door. They use diplomacy
to. back up their shady claims that in
countless scases have demanded the sup
port of the army and the navy in the
interest of dollar diplomacy.
cause Oh NAOUETM w aEBs
Modern wars are the product Of
these new financial, munition making
and economic forces They are born
of surplus wealth seeking colossal
profits in foreign lands"
These are sentences from an address
on Insurance against War" by Fred
eric C. Howe, member of the Committee
on Industrial Relations. author and
Commissioner of immigration at the
Port of New York in the Wilson ad-
ministration, delivered before the Con-
ference on Real Preparedness held in
Washington, June % and 20.
The conference was called under the
leadership of Benjamin c. Marsh, ex-
ecutive secretary of the League for
Municipal Ownership and Operation in
New York City. 1t was splendid
demonstration of the getting together
of all other real democrats with the
real democrats of the organized labor
movement whose demand is for indus
trial preparedness of justice and sanity
and, as Lincoln Steffens says, of joy
BUSINESS.
Not Yet Teachers.
ut i'll becomes US to set ourselves
up as monitors and teachers of other
nations till we have set our own house
in order and justice rules in all parts
of our own land" said John ]. Hopper,
president of the association for an
equitable federal income tax.
I'VE can hardly claim to have reach
ed this standard when 100000 chill
dren between ten and fifteen years OF
age are working their young lives out
in factories, mines and on farms, in
stead Of attending school; when near
~ 1,65O,OOO citizens are killed or MAIN
ed by our railroads and factories
every year.
1--WE have granted to railroads by
Federal and State governments, land
equivalent to four times the New Eng
land States, almost equal in size to
the state of Texas and one-fifth great
er than Germany or France-Think OF
it-one- twelfth Of the continental area
of the United States given away.
National monopolies have fallen
into and remain in the hands Of the
few to the great injury of the many
Real preparedness means the elimi-
nation of waste by the socialization OF
all natural resources and their utiliza-
ton for the Denent OF all anu HoI AoA
private speculation.
Private ownership of natural re-
sources enables the few to levy tribute
on the many as effectively as con
quering nation does upon a subjugatec
one and with no more sanction of JUS
tice.
'tSuch monopoly is fatal to indus
trial peace as well as preparedness II
war"
AT least half Of the value of mos
public utilities is land values, and {
large proportion of them have virtual