The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-07-13

war for several years, but it takes an
army OF abie bodied men to mine and
manufacture the metals.
Money Is truly said to be the ''sinews
of war" The vast sums borrowed and
spent by the contending nations in
amounts sound to the reader like the
figures of the distances to the stars.
They are utterly beyond the comprehen-
SION of the human mind. It is curious
fact however that all these great sums
of money only represent in dollars the
amount of waste and destruction Of war.
When we say that Britain is spending
ESQ. .OOO, 900 each day for war purposes
that means so much destruction, and
that destruction implies human life, (of
this and future generatlons) as we'll as
property of all kinds. And as whole
this loss falls upon the whole people.
There is no profit in war. 1t is only
case where a man burns his house to
keep himself warm.
The question of the food supply is
governed largely by the same conditions
as that of manufactures. The want of
men means the want of food. For every
man in the army there must be man
at work at home raising food for his
support Most of the warning nations
are not self supporting in peace times,
now most of these lands have large
proportion of their strong men in the
ranks. The conclusion as to the possi-
BILE and probable supply Of bread is evi.
dent.
When the military authorities contend
that the war will be continued almost
indefinitely, they do not take into con
sderatlon another great factor in the
prosecution of any war. No successful
war can be made without public senti-
ment supporting it. In this case, three
years of war, with killed, wounded, tears
and blood, starvation and poverty. wild.
ows and orphans, what must be public
sentiment as to the continuation of war?
What great objects are possible for any
of these nations after three years of
carnage? What is left to fight for?
The common people are asking these
questions among themselves and will
soon ask the authorities. A nation as
we'll as an army fights upon its belly.
We look for the first weakness among
the Central powers. We know the
shortage of many things in Britain,
France. Italy and even in the neutral
countries. Germany and Austria have
been closed in for three years. II Brit
ain and France are hungry how about
Germany? If it takes bale of cotton
every time big gun is discharged in
this war of artillery, where is the cotton
supply for the central powers? And the
same questions can be asked and an
swered for hundreds of necessities.
The people of Europe are not only
hungry for food but as certainly hungry
for peace.
Another, and perhaps the deciding
factor of peace is the entrance of the
United States into the war. The moral
force of our participation will have great
effect. The Kaiser knew when he be.
gan the RUTHLESS" of the submarine
that this would occur, but took his
chances on that issue alone as he saw he
had no chance otherwise. Three months
of the ruthless has made no great differ
ence except to put this country in pre-.
paration. With the failure of the sub.
marine he knows what the inevitable
result must be. He will necessarily
seek to discount the possible end by an
early peace while some advantages are
still left to him. He now has no other
choice.
We hope and believe that the cry of
the declminated and exhausted people
of Europe will soon be answered and
that the Christmas chimes of this year
will ring out as of yore, "Peace on earth
and good will to men,"