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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
THE NATIONS WEALTH AND WAR

War means waste but does not necessarily involve impover-
ishment of the nation. If this country produces sufficient real
wealth to leave a surplus after paying the cost of war it may
emerge from a long struggle richer than when it began. Politi-
cal economists estimate that the wealth of the whole world is
recreated in four years, Authorities differ as to these figures.
but the principle is admitted by all.
England incurred an enormous debt during the Napoleonic
wars, but was richer than ever after Waterloo. Her factory
system had been developed and her shipping interests had been
dominant to such an extent that the trade of the world lay i'll
the hollow of her hand. The United States was richer at the
close of the civil war than before it started, though the south
ri states were impoverished, the gain in the north far offset
ting the loss in the south. War did not help, but it did not
cause economic ruin in either case.
Alarmists in congress predict ruin if this war is protracted
One senator estimates probably over-estmates-the wealth OF
the United States at s25O,OOO 100000 and says that a war ex-
penditure of S20OO0OOONO a year for twelve and a half years
will reach every dollar that is in private ownership in the
United States" This statement is fallacious in two ways. If
the accumulated wealth of the country were decreased by this
war at such a rate, the balance remaining at the end of five
years would lose its market value and would be written Off III
a financial panic.
This war cannot be prosecuted by drawing on capital. The
senator who made this statement ignored the annual produc-
ton of wealth, yet it is out of that production that the cost of
this war must be paid. We are producing wealth at the rate
of at least fifty billion dollars a year, and if the theory OF tho
political economists is well founded and the senator's estimate
of our accumulated wealth is correct the amount is sixty bill
lion dollars a year. At any rate we are producing twice and
perhaps three times the cost of war at $2O,OOO,OOOOW a year
and it is this annual output that the federal government Will
tax and from it will be drawn the money to pay for bond issues.
At the end of the war, if real craftsmanship guides our
councils at Washington, America will have more ships. more
factories. more land under cultivation, more developed mines
and better railroads than before, together with sufficient capt.
tai to enter the struggle for the trade of the world that will fol-
low. In such shape England emerged from the Napoleonlc
wars. The necessity for taking part in this war is to be re-
gretted. but it is not cause for despair. The theory that a long
war will in our case exhaust or destroy accumulated wealth mas
no foundation in fact. The only danger turks in Washington
where a few wilful men in congress are trying to obstruct the
prosecution of the war by adopting measures that will weaken
the military and financial strength of the United States.-NeW
York Commercial.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
SOCIALISTS UNFIT TO GOVERN

Socialists had their brief day in Russia and the result was
anarchy followed by a dictatorship. The army experimental
with a council of soldiers and disregard of discipline. and be-
came a mob driven like a flock of sheep before the invaders.
The experiment has proved the old truth that a nation must
have an organized government. The form may be an absolute
monarchy or an elected president and congress, but supreme
power must be vested in some man or some responsible body
of men.
In Russia the land cannot be distributed among the peas
ants and they cannot be assured of lawful possession until &
stable government is erected. AS Mr.. Root would put it, Russie
must have organized self-cOntrOl. In a democracy the people
rule, but power to make and enforce laws must be delegated to
some man or some elected council. The Russian school of an
archists has taught the doctrine of the needessness of laws
and machinery to enforce them.
The fallacy of this has been demonstrated by a costly ex-
pertinent and the masses of the people should learn from it that
their lives, their liberties and their right to till the land de
pend on organized government of some sort
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
ID INSURANCE

Other problems in allegiance for the moment wasnhe'on L
taking up in a serious way the question OF insurance pro'e0uon
for soldiers. A solution of this vexing but simple problem was
first attempted by the national convention OF insurance COIL
missioners. They failed to bring all the interests 10 an aeree-
ment. and have passed the buck" to the federal authorities.
In an effort to find a solution there has been much running
up and down and flying off at tangents, and now the climax
has been capped by a suggestion from a prominent lndepeno-
ent actuary that as the insurance companies ordinarily pay
their policy holders large dividends" they are able to accep'
the insurance risk of war without extra premiums.
In effect, he suggests that the government conhscate the
dividends" belonging to the policyholders of the country |"
pay the cost of insuring soldiers. Like all obvious solutions
of vexing problems, that offered by Mr.. Wolf is one any OF Us
could have suggested but for the innate sense OF equity tina
clogs the springs of action.
The sort of solution the public wants of the problem OF
insuring soldiers is a solution that will square with its sense OF
fairness. The question of the cost is not important as long a.
it is fairly distributed. The men who fight the battles OF the
country are entitled to every comfort and even luxury that oI
great wealth can give them, but in public measures there must
be no attempt to shift burdens.
Mr.. Wolf must know that his dividends" are not dividends
A dividend in the commercial sense is a division of profits.
The dividends" that life insurance companies pay their stock
holders are savings not ds-Exchang7.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
WHAT KIND OF AMERICANS:

There are men in public life like Senators La Toilette and
!. Hamilton Lewis. who show too much sOlicitude for those
German un-Americans, SO numerous at Milwaukee and Chl-
cago. The United States senator from Illinois lives in Chicago
where German votes are thick. He was out in California dur
ing the presidential campaign, making speeches in favor of the
election of Woodrow Wilson. whom he is not supporting now,
apparently. Judging from the fact that "by request OF represen-
tative German citizens of Chicago" he suggested that the United
States make advances to Germany for peace.
What sort of Americans is Chicago breeding?" asks FL
nancial America, again taking up the cudgel. "The mayor of
that municipality has boosted that Chicago was the largest Ger
man city in America.
The United States senator, whose residence is in Chicago,
suggests that we make advances for peace to the people who
murdered our men, our women and our children on the Lusl-
tania. who have sunk our ships of commerce ana killed u
sailors in defiance of laws human and divine, who have foment-
ed strikes in our factories, planted Internal machines on our
piers. in our manufacturing plants and in our ships; VINO nave
bovcotted our merchants for daring to do what Germany dd
moi wish: who have sent emissaries through the land OF spread
disease and death; who have offended in this war as no other
supposedly civilized people ever did in the worlds history.
MI. Lewis may do this by request of representative Ter
citizens of Chicago He may do it by request of the
mayor of Chicago.
"But he would never do it by request of an American, for
an American is not a potroon"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
u AND EFFECT

We let the Industrial Workers of the World run amlIck foI
years and lynch law takes the place of law and order admins
tered by courts and police. The head of the l. w. w. threateRs
the president of the United States and proclaims a general
strike to destroy the harvest in the middle west and to tie uI
the the copper mines SO that we may be unable to prosecute
the war. All avowed enemy Of society engaged in reasonable
agitation is permitted to go from the scene of disturbance in
Arizona to Butte, Montana, where the response to his threats
is an informal but effective hanging.
This is all wrong. The primary lesion of the body polite
was the neglect of state officials to maintain the peace and
prosecute those who conspired to destroy property. When the
agitation became reasonable the federal authorities also failed
to take notice. Now We have this lynching at Butte, which is
the effect and not the cause.
Men come to this country from lands where lynching is
unknown and take part in such affairs after they have been
here long enough to absorb the typical American contempt for
our way of administering justice. Lynching cannot be justi-
fled or excused but it can be accounted for, and we shall not
hear the last of it until Justice throws down her leaden shoes
and prompt punishment of crime becomes a deterrent.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
RICH AND POOR ON ONE FOOTING

Harvard's Gold Coast" is being turned into apartments for
the plain people of Boston. Rich and luxuryloving undergrad
yates have entered the army or navy or are in training for
these services. The change is a sign of the times. The flower
of Americas young manhood is at the service of the nation.
And yet men in congress pirate of the rich mans war which
the poor man must fight, as if all classes were not equally pa
triotic.
Mrs. Peavish says that before they were married Mr.. Peav-
ish said her hair was like celestial filaments, and now he rOars
when he finds a few strands of it in his comb.
If you have a son in the army, you should give something
to the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Gross.
AS a general thing, the most attentive listener is the one
who is expecting to hear something drop.
Furthermore, the young man who is looking for easy
money had better not marry for it,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

In connection with the high price of watermelons, it is
comforting to reflect that they have the lowest rating in cal
cries of any commodity the government has taken the trouble
to analvze and report upon. If the worst comes to the worst,
we can get along without then.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Germany has mined the harbors of Holland. The Dutch
would probably be glad to mind their own harbors if the Ger
mans would mind their own Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

The kaiser is going to have something to explain when the
German people discover how easily war with America could
have been avoided.-Detroit Press.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
CHEATING NO LONGER FASHIONABLE

It really does begin to look as though a change of mind had
come with regard to the ETHICS which should prevail in war
time. remarks the New York Times. The old idea, carried out
in all the fighting spells from the revolution to the Spanish wal,
was that these occasions furnished the opportunity for making
unholv profits and more especially, for cheating the govern
ment in the quality Of what was furnished.
I'm no instance was this more glaringly the case than with
regard to the food supplied to the fighting forces. Complaint
was rife in the civil war about the unappetizing nature of the
"consecrated beef and desecrated vegetables"-as one Malaprop
put it-and the remarks about the "embalmed beef of the Span
;sh war became classic. Aside from the fact that this kind of
thing would not be tolerated now, it is pleasant to record that
there does not seem any disposition to indulge in it.
An appeal which has been sent to the members OF the Ma
tional Gamers association by its president, Henry Burden,
typifies the new spirit. After saying that almost every family
will soon have a representative on the firing line in Europe
and that the duty of those who remain behind will be to pro-
vide food, clothing and ammunition for the troops, he asks how
are the Gamers to respond to their privilege in this matter.
And he Immediately answers it by saying: SIN just one way
by seeing to it that every can Of food we sell to the government
shall be perfect, the very best we can produce, never forgetting
that it is our own flesh and blood whose subsistence we are
providing. Could any one desire greater or holier inspiration?
There are other ways of showing patriotism, but surely
this compares well with most of them. And the president of
will act in accordance with the spirit of his letter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

In England they speak of lifting potatoes, chile we 81!
dig" Either word is appropriate in view of The high prices
though digging" has a more pointed meaning fo' the Amerl
can consumer who has to buy the spuds.-Tacoma Ledger.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

The statement that steaks are cheaper in London than in
\merica is illuminated by the report that a war time st ak in
London now weighs only four ounces.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Lloyd Georges plan to so arrange the worlds affairs that
1.-The confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity
of their cause and not in the might of their armies" has the APP
pearance of a real step toward ultimate world disarmament.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Negroes who were lured north by the prospect of higher
wages are said to be returning home because they get nothing
but white bread, and corn bread is regarded by them as a ne
cessty. They should be patient. Corn bread may yet become
a staple of the north.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

The reason a dub golfer gets mad at his caddy is because
his wife would be to blame if she We're there. Galveston
News.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Our boys across the sea have had their first pay day, anG
in the French mind, if they prove to be as good fighters as the.
are spenders there will be nothing to the war once they Sc
into the trenches.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Also. the cost of living was lower in the good Old days when
sweethearts were satisfied with peppermint candy. - Dallas
News.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

If you have a son in the army, you should give something
to the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Gross.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

AS a general thing, the most attentive listener is the on
who is expecting to hear something drop.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11

Furthermore, the young man who is looking for easy
money had better not marry for it.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
DRAFT BILL PLANNED
FOR HOME GUARD ORGANIZATION
FOR COLORADO.
War Measure to Be Enacted at Extra
Session in July viii Affect Men
over Thirty-One Years of Age.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-A selective draft bill to
form a substantial home guard during
the period of the war is contemplated
as one of the war measures to be en-
acted during the special session of the
Legislature which will meet in July.
Men more than 81 years old only
will be subject to the draft for this
purpose, so it will interfere in no way
with the draft for the national armies.
Although definite announcement
has not been made as to who will
sponsor the bill, legislative leaders say
that such a bill is seriously consid-
cred as one of the most important of
the special sessions order of business.
The Assembly, it is stated, will con-
slider only war measures and will hold
short session. Few clerks will be
named, as there will be a limited num-
ber of bills. Leaders declare that
they are determined to hold the ex-
penses of the Legislature itself to
minimum.
Correlative with the draft bill it is
stated will be tax bill to impose a
half-mill levy in the state to support
the home guard and to provide for
other defense measures.
Acceleration of crop movements and
adequate handling of the crop harvest
ing will be other subjects considered
by the Legislature. 1t is understood
that the officers and committees of
both branches of the Legislature will
hold over from last winters session
in the interest of quicker action on
needed bills.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF FIRST-AID WORK
BY RED CROSS MEN
An American Pictures Scenes in
Subway Dressing Station
Near Trenches.
SURGEONS LABOR ENDLESSLY
Captain, Priest, Private and German
Lad, All Dying, Get Tender Care
From overworked Hospital
and Ambulance Aids.

The work of the Red Cross surgeons
and stretcher bearers at the front in
France was never more wildly illus
trated than in recent letter forward
ed to America. 1t was written by
Philip o. Mills to Mr.. Eliot Norton,
head of the Volunteer Motor Ambu-
lance corps which Mr.. Mills was serv-
ing. The communication was private,
but was made public because of the
clearness with which it sets forth the
scenes amid which the surgeons and
ambulance workers labor, day after
day. The text follows:
Tonight I am sitting in small un-
derground cellar of a public building,
acting as sort of timekeeper for the
cars (ambulances) going up to our
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
Pardon Urged for orson Adams.

Orson Adams, former Grand juno
ton banker, has been recommended
for parole by the parole board of the
department of justice in Washington.
and his case now is before President
Wilson for approval of the boards ac-
ton. The Western Slope banker was
sentenced to the Leavenworth peniten-
tiary June 8, 1914, and has served just
half his six-year term. He was con-
victed of charges of misapplication
and misrepresentation of funds of the
Mesa County National Bank, making
false entries and embezzlement His
defense was that he had technically
violated federal banking laws in his
eagerness to save Grand Valley indus
tries from ruin.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23

turns to the wounded man, gently feels
his nose, lifts up his closed eyelid, and
at his nod the stretcher is again lifted
and the wounded man is carried into
the operating room, and soon after into
the little room of sorrows.
'Tn answer to my eager question, the
surgeon shakes his head.
"'Not n chance
"a brancardier and / gather the SOL
dier's belongings from his clothes to
be sent to his wife, but even we have
to stop for a few minutes after we
see the photograph of his wife and
their two little children.
"An hour later, as our nights work
is Stacking up and several cars have
driven up and been unloaded, the In
firmier comes in from the little room
and says something to the brancar-
diers. Two of them get a stretcher,
and in moment the 'blesse from
Belleville" comes past us with a sheet
over him. They lay him down at the
other end of the room and another
brancardier begins rolling and tying
him in burlap for burial. As / look
he changes to a shapeless log. Then,
out to the dead wagon with 1t.
"Soon after, go into the little ward
again to see how the others are COM
ing through the night, and am glad to
see them all quieted down. Even the
little German seems in less pain,
though his breathing still shakes the
heavy bed he lies on.
Through a chink 1 see that day is
beginning to break, and l hear the
chiefs car coming in from the sap, and
know that the nights work is over"
This is not sketch from the imagi-
nation of a novelist-it is the actual
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
s1o1 .24o $50 LIBERTY LOAN BONDS
Taken In Tenth Federal Reserve Bank
District.

Kansas City.-In announcing totals
of Liberty Loan bonds in the Tenth
(Kansas City, Federal Reserve Bank
district of s1O1 1,240,650, the allotment
having been 100000, 900" ,"the following
were among the amounts for the vari-
GUS states of the district:
Missouri, western part of state, $780,
SCI, 500; Kansas City, SIG, 6,14S,65O; st.
Joseph, $2,412,S00.
Kansas, s13.535, 800; Kansas City,
1891, 100; Wichita, s2,329, $50; Topeka,
$1,1O1, $50.
Oklahoma, $17,973,95O; Oklahoma
City, $2,S56, $50; Muskogee, $S,6S7, 100;
Tulsa, $5,370,00O.
Nebraska, s1S,2O6,75O; Omaha, So
717,95O; Lincoln, s1,S56,90O.
Colorado, $1S,36O, 500; Denver, s12,-
92O.35O; Pueblo, s1,6S7,250.
Wyoming, S2,004,S50.
New Mexico, northern half, $597,5OO.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
27 U. S. AMBULANCE
CORPS READY TO GO

Twenty-Seven ambulance companies
have been organized by the American
Red Cross in this country for service
in Europe. Some of them have already
gone abroad. The list is:
No. Pasadena, Cal, DR.. Charles
D. Lockwood; No. 2-University of
California, Berkeley, DIR. Alvin Powell ;
No. 3-University of Chicago, DR.. Ell
bert Clark; No. 4-Cleveland, DR..
Ralph X Updegraff; No. 5-Washing-
ton, D. c., DIR. Ryan Devereux; No. 6
-Fordham university, DR.. Joseph Don
nelly; No. New York university, DR..
Chester F. S. Whitney; No. S-Detroit,
DIR. Charles Barton; No. 9-Northwest-
ern university, Chicago, DR.. Stephen
Balderston; No. 10-Columbia univer-
sity, DIR. William H. Rockwell; No. IL
Battle Creek, Mich, DR.. James T..
Case; No. 12-University of Washing
ton, Seattle, DR.. David G. Hall; No. 13
-Pittsfield, Mass, DR.. Robert ]. Car
penter; No. 14-University of Oregon,
Eugene, Ore, DR.. J. e. Kuykendall !;
No. 15-Grand Rapids, Mich, DR..
Thomas D. Gordon; No. 16-Fredonia,
Kan, DIR. Edgar c. Duncan; No. IL
Boston, DIR. Edward A. Cunningham !;
No. 1S-Indianapolis, DR.. Mason B.
Light; No. 19-Portland, Ore, DR.. Err
nest II. Streit; No. 20-Atlanta, DIR.
Leo p. DAILY; No. 21-F'lint, Mich, DR..
Walter II. Winchester; No. 22-Char-
lesion, w. Va, DIR. Timothy L. Barber;
No. 23-Portland, Me-, DR.. Ernest b.
Folsom; No. 24-KansaS City, Mo-,
commander not yet named; No. 25-
Rutland, VT, DR.. William Stickney;
No. 26-Columbia, S. c., DIR. Marion Ell.
Wyman; No. 27-Salt Lake City, DR..
Hugh B. Sprague.
Several of these units are already
on the way to the front in France, and
the prospect is that all will see early
service. Not only is the Red Cross
preparing to care for American sol
diers and sailors when they move into
the firing line, but France needs help
badly with her hospitals, and America
is giving it as rapidly as possible.
The German policy of sinking hos
pital ships with their thousands of
helpless wounded is making it neces-
sary to care for the British wounded
in France, and it puts a terrific strain
on the French hospital service.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
Volunteers to Knit for War Asked.

Women who wish to do their Bit
through knitting for American sol
diers and sailors are asked, in state
ment made for the Denver branch, of
the National Service School, sWom-
ans Section, Navy League. to send
their names to the secretary of the
Service school to be conducted at Lo-
retto Heights. They are expected to
bring their own materials and knit
garments. Stress is laid upon the
need of the men in American military
and naval service for such comforts.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-23
La Junta Company Sworn In.

A company was mustered into the
First battalion of the Second regiment
of the national guard at La Junta.
Capt Joseph Mock will have command
OF the company. Organizations which
are to become a part of the Second
regiment Have been completed in the
following cities: Ordway, La lara,
Antonita, Canon City, Cripple Creek,
Del Norte, Springfield and Tobasco. A
company will be mustered in at Ber-
wind.