New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-29

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021, 100000. Although considerable
OF this increase was due to munition
shipments, it is surely time to sock
more liberal trade policy between
two such good neighbors as the United
States and Canada without slacken-
ing in our attentions to South Amer
lea.
Our New Point OF View.
This war has also forced vital
change in our international position.
Hereafter we shall look outward as
we'll as inward; we will be vastly more
interested in foreign ventures, and will
find ourselves obliged to take an in
terest in foreign politics and foreign
economic and social affairs. We have
been rudely awakened to a new con-
sciousness; g. consciousness that we
need, other and larger fields for en-
ployment of our expanding resources,
energy and skill. We can supply the
world with many things hitherto sup
Piled chiefly by Britain and Germany.
The latter, though much crippled, will
make strenuous efforts to regain her
lost hold. Great Britain, re-energized
by war, will be fully occupied in her
own customary markets, even If tenn
porarily crippled by the war. The
United States is splendidly equipped
to enter foreign markets, particularly
in the steel and allied industries, and
the country can look forward in con-
fidence to such outlets for our new
growth. We possess capital in album
dance, and investors must be encour.
aged to venture into foreign fields.
Our bankers, our manufacturers, our
merchants and our carriers must also
learn the value of cooperation and
coordination for the common purpose
of winning foreign markets on sound
and peaceful lines. Highly developed
organization is essential to success. We
must realize that if we wish to sell.
we must also be ready to buy, and
that all unnecessary restrictions upon
legitimate commercial intercourse
must be abolished in order to facili-
tate sound and natural development.
When peace comes there should be no
imposing Of retaliatory tariffs and
boycotts upon the vanquished. Such
a policy would prove both foolish and
immoral
Hope for the Future.
AS we close the year the question
can hardly be avoided, what has
brought this holocaust of misery and
hate into the world? Nothing but
soulless, ruthless autocracy, bent upon
trampling over the liberties OF the en-
tire world simply to accomplish it's
own tyrannical selfish ends. The re-
suit is a veritable day of Judgment
against the worship of force and
egoism which are the basic ideals of
Prussianism. Fortunately these ideals
are so hostile to human nature and
so incompatible with the modern sense
of liberty that they must and will be
crushed; the uprising Of the whole
civilized world foreboding their ex-
tinction.
Concerning the future the immed-
late outlook appears dark; because.
while confident of victory, the price
has not been paid and cannot be paid
until militarism has been destroyed.
It may be that peace will come sooner
than expected; an event for which the
country can devoutly pray, Come it
will eventually: and out Of the travail
and pain through which we are now
laboring a new and better world will
be born. There will still be unrest
and strife; but bloodshed will cease,
hatred will subside, more humane and
more ethical standards of conduct will
prevail; and for the new generations
to come we may hope for an era of
peacet and good will growing out of
this hfe and death struggle between
democracy and autocracy. Hope
should be the keynote of the new
year.
HENRY CLEWS.
POSTCRIPT-The proclamation Of
President Wilson taking over control
of the railroads is one of the most
important domestic events Of the war.
It arrests at a stroke the undercur-
rent of distrust which was undermin-
ing railroad credit, and threatened the
entire financial fabric. It assures fair
play to the owners, the users and the
workers on the railroads, and will pre-
vent any one of these divisions un-
duly imposing their will upon others.
1t will also assure better transporta-
ton, which is necessary to win the
war, and allow the roads compensa-
ton in some form. for increased Yex-
penses. A radical change for the bet
ter is promised American railroads.