The Republican journal., 1917-03-29
A BUSINESS MANS VIEW.

JuluS CndInUeTs, WIN Coisi iou'oS
ssWalks and Talks" to the Brooklyn
Eagle, makes tour through the great
financial district of Manhattan once
month, and in making this tour last week
he expressed to the chief of hundred
million corporation, in no manner ldenti-
fed with making war munitions and that
has not profited by the foreign conflict,
his utmost regret at the course of Ger
many toward country that had been
haven of hope for 100000 of her peo-
pie. To his amazement he got wholly
new slant on the present situation. He
saws: This president of a great manu-
featuring company, Democrat and
supporter of Mr. Wilson IN two cam
paigns, spoke as never have heard man
do before. He looked me straight in the
eyes and said:"
1.-THE most wonderful thing that could
happen to this Republic is for US to be
drawn into this worldwide war! 1t is
providential. We possess, at this hour.
the international contempt of the nations
of this worldi Being drawn into this
conflict, we shall be forced to depart
from our mistaken policy of isolation.
From first to last, meaning from the out
break of hostiities in Mexico to the dash
of the Teutons into Belgium, our course
has been most untortunate-l mean con-
temprible! Mr.. Wilson was reelected on
the cry, He has kept US out of war!
Not true, as we now comprehend, and at
what a national sacrifice of honor!
Yes; we shall have to go in with the
Entente Allies, for self protection. We
cannot 90 alone! No matter where our
sympathies lie, we must make the cause
Of England, France, Russia. Italy. Ru-
manic, Japan and Serbia ours!
Germany is on her last legs! Re-
pardless of all talk, such is the truth,
and well-informed Germans in the United
States know it for fact. For weeks
have been aware of the dreadful domes-
tic conditions in the Central Powers.
Austria is tri1e better off than Ger
many, because her natural food resources
have been more rigidly conserved.
'The result of our entrance into this
gigantic conflict on the Allied side will
mean an economic and commercial par
tlcipation in the realignment to come af-
ter the war. We shall be of the brother
Va
ing prodigal outside the gates! / well
come the challenge that Germany has
thrown down to US, not because l want
WARRIOR | deplore it-but because it
will rehabilitate US in the eyes of the
civilized world. Nothing else will do so.
We shall regain place in the sunlight
of the Twentieth Century that otherwise
we have irretrivably lost "
Every we'll informed person knows that
this is true. Germany has been allowed
to play with this country as a cat plays
with a mouse. The policy adopted to
keep US out of war has brought about
situation where war is imperative, if this
country is ever to hold up her head again
among the great nations. Germany has
sunk our ships and drowned our people.
Mexico has killed American citizens and
destroyed property upon our own soil.
Nothing has been done but sending a
few impotent Notes to Germany. Look
at China, long regarded, despite her
teening millions as the sick sister among
nations German U-boats drowned
few hundred of her people, and she sew
cred relations with that country at once,
seized the German ships in her ports and
coniscated German property in China.
Now she has asked the Austro- Hungar-
ian government if it approves of the
German submarine policy, because of
which China has severed diplomatic rela-
tons with Germany. Should satisfac-
tory reply not be forthcoming. diplomatic
relations between China and Austria
Hungary probably will be severed. This
country should have taken this stand
weeks ago.