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country and but few aRRregAtions ot
countries could balance up with u. u
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pean countries take onr and other imtl
ported material and work It up intol
goods that they resell TO us and other
nations. The United States imports
very little raw material for manufacturei
and yet is now one OF the greatest Of
manufacturing nations.
II the positions in the world war were
reversed and Germany we're with the
entente allies and the United States |
against the world, with the same prepar-
story organization as Germany. We
would be better situated to make the
fight than Germany.
Big as the Liberty Loan" rs, it is butt
one example Of the lmmensity OF our .ss.I
sourses. natural and acquired.
That i've billions does not equal ths}
value years output OF the farms alone
OF this country. We found something
like eight millions of fighting men be-
tween the ages of 81 and 81 in the recent
registration, that could have been called
il actually needed. If the lnclusivs
ages had been from lS to As it is probable
that would have included nearly 2O,OOO,-
600 men physically able to bear arms.
That is probably approximately as many
soldiers as have been employed at any
one time by all the armies in Europe. in
this war.
The British, French and German
fleets might blockade our coasts but we
would not suffer any great privation for
food, or lack for material for war pur-
poses. We. could get along very we'll if
we were compelled to sever all traffic
with other nations, but how could they
get along without US? A blockade
would hurt them more than it would
US. One Of the strongest weapons that
the U. S. has brought to the assistance
of its European allies is its power of
placing an embargo against the neutral
nations that are selling supplies to Ger
many.
Yes, Uncle Sam is rich, but he will
not have so much money in his pockets
when this war is over. Rich as we
are. we shall certainly feel poorer before
we get the war bills paid. We have
loaned the money to the government.
but we win have to pay ourselves back
again. with taxation.
As matter of fact, this loanlng busi-
ness to the government is really nothingt
more or less than giving the governmentf
(ourselves) so much wheat, so much
coal, so much steel, so much of every
thing this or that man owns or produces
and letting each one pay himself out
of his own pocket. This is what Ger
many has been doing for three years.
The government pays us back a part on
which to live, but large surplus is
pure waste of war and a dead loss to all.
That is the part we all lose, that is the
part the whole world has lost and is |
losing irreparably. War means destruc-
tion; whether we were directly or indi-
rectly in this war we stood to lose. The
only way to stop that loss Is to get peace
promptly. The only way to get peace
promptly is to fight for it and not stop
to count present cost Money is one of
the most efficient weapons of war. We
believe that today Germany fears our
dollars more than they do our soldiers,
though they may have different opin-
ion of the latter later.