The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-11-17
ASKS SUPPORT
oF:oR|C'AN|zED. .
LABOR IN WAR
CONTINUED From PaEo One.)

| kind.
Object Of War.
II think that in order to realize just
| what this moment of counsel is. it is
about and just what it is for. You can
explain most wars very simply,> but
the explanation Of this is not so sim
pie. Its roots run deep into all the
| obscure soils Of history and in my
view this is the last decisive issue be-
tween the old principles Of power and
r he" VAR was Stated ies BY Germany.
| Her authorities deny that they started
it. But am; willing. to let the state
ment have just made await the YER
needs to be explained is why Germany
| started the war. Remember what the
| position of Germany in the world was
AS enviable a position as any nation
stood at admiration of her wonderful
| intellectual and material achievements,
| and all the intellectual men Of the
University man: f have been be ne sarrou s
I ed by men trained in Germany, men
| who had resorted to Germany because
| nowhere else could they get such thor
ough and searching training. particu;,
!arly In the PRINCIPLES Of science and
the principles that underlie modern
! material achievements.
Competent Industrles.
! Her men of science had made her
industries perhaps the most competent
n he and the Label
| good workmanship and of sound ma
| terial. She had access to all the mar
kets Of the world and every other man
Germany because Of her effective and
almost irresistible competition. She
had a place in the sun. Why was she
not satisfied. What more did she
| nj Huyoa t. =
Of peace that she did not already have
and have in abundance.
I'VE boast of the extraordinary
pace Of American advancement: We
increase of our industries and Of the
statistics did not match the recent
statistics stas , Of Germany Her old cities
American city ever grew; her old in
dustries opened their eyes and saw a
new world and went out for it's con-
guest; and yet the aHtho5itieS of Ger.
one part of the answer to the question
why she was not satisfied in her meth.
oas oft There is no i'm
which the government has not laid its
! arises, control it,
! Methods Of Competition.
whon2 vn nave We. only to ask any man
the conditions that prevailed before
the war in the matter Of international
competition: to find out the methods
! Of competition which the German man
eminent Of Germany You viii VII FIND FIND
that they were the same sorts of COM
petition that we have tried to precent
by law within our own borders. IT
they could not sell their goods cheaper
! than we could sell ours, at profit to
tbs tnsy cend get Subsidy
possible to sell them cheaper. anyhow:
and the conditions Of competition were
thus thu controlled in large measure by
that did AID not Satisfy the German gov
,"All the while there was lying be-
hind hind its thought in its dreams of the
enable it in the long run to dominate
tho labor and the industry of the
world. They were, not content with
by t tSp
much about tie Beriin. to- Bagdad rail.
way. The Berlin TOT agdad railway
threat Of force down the flank Of the
industrial undertakings of half a doz-
en- other countries, so that when Ger
be resisted too far-because there was
always the possibility Of getting Ger
man armies into the heart Of that
country quicker than any other armies
! a.. Map Of Europe Shows Things.
| LOOK at the map of Europe now.
germany. in thrusting upon us again
4 and again aSd,'. the discgssion Of peace,
talks about Alsace-Lorraine. We'll
nose are deeply interesting subjects
to us and to them, but they are not
| 1F fho
Take the map and look at it. Ger
many has absolute control of Austria :
Hungary. practical control of the Bal
OF Asia Minor. saw man in which
the whole thing was printed in appro-
pirate black the other day and the
burs to Bsedsdmth ee b %fS t Of Ge Ham
power inserted into the heart of the
world. # it can keep that. she has
Kept all that her dreams contemplated
that her power can disturb the world
as long as she keeps it-always pro
v'ded. for I feel bound to put this
proviso in-elways provided the pres
government continue to control it,
| VIII Find Welcome.
,oan believe that the spirit Of freedom
ena fet 9t3 ns the @ nsatS Of Use
can find in any other hearts. But the
spirit of freedom does not suit the
| pans Oh the Pan-GermanS. Power can
not be used with concentrated force
against free peoples If it is used by
free people.
You know how many intimations
| come to us from one of the Central
powers that it Is more anxious for
peace than the chief Central power;
and you know that it means that the
people in that Central power know
that if/the war ends as it stands. thew
Will, in effect themselves be vassals OF
Germany, notwithstanding that their
populations are compounded with ali
the people Of that part Of the world
and notwithstanding the fact that they
do not wish in their pride and propei
spirit Of nationality to be 80 absorbed
49, Determined to Secure Power.
Germany is determined that thu
| political power of the world shall be
long to her. There have been sucf
! ambitions before. They have been in
part realized. But never before have
those ambitions been based upon sc
exact; and precise and scientific a plar
OF domination. p-"'
May I not say that it is amazing e
me that any group of people should b.
so ill-informed as -t6 suppose as som,
Russians apparently suppose, that an,
reforms planned in the interest of tn,
!, people car live in the presence of 8
Germany powerful enough to under.
mine or over throw them by intriEue o,
force. Any body Of free men tha1
compounds with the present Germa,
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