The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-13

eratlOn. This plan in itself foreshad.
ows postwar quadruple alliance of
more intimate and binding nature
tnan has ever characterized other al.
hances In the worlds history and if
its purpose is to be fully fulfilled ;ts
duration is expected to be at least 1OO
years.
| "A prominent politician who was in
Rome at the time of the conference
tells me that entente statesmen do not
expect the German government TO
make serious effort to meet the cOun-
try's financial liabilities toward its own
people, and it is therefore not difficult
TO understand why the big business
interests Of Hamburg. Frankfort and
Berlin have for long been clamoring
for peace.
II, as expected, Germany wipes off
her liabilities and begins again with
a clean sheet. she will obviously be in
a position of economic superiority to
| the entente countries while the latter
are struggling to devise ways and
means of meeting their Indebtedness
Social problems will be no less grave.
| VI all the entente countries. France
Will have suffered most heavily in men
IN relation to her population by the
time the war Is over. By the end of
this year her dead OF permanently
tncapacitated may reach 100000, and
England. Italy and Russia will suffer
AFTER the same rate. At the same time,
Germany's losses will be found to be
superior, both relatively and absolute
~. to those Of any other country in
the war.
Affects the United States.
This means that in every town and
village labor will be scarce Emigra-
ton will be brought to a standstill
for at least this generation, and per-
haps for the next. The United States
will thus be directly affected while it
IS certain that the development of
Canada will be set back for half a
century.
PROOF that great scarcity of labor
Is feared in Europe and especially
France, is given by the measures al
ready prudently taken by the French
government for the introduction Of
coolie labor. This movement began
some months ago and will be inten-
sitied this year. Already thousands OF
Asiatics are employed for national
purposes, ana even when millions Of
t'renchnen are released from the col
Ors 1t is anticipated that the employ
ment of colored men will have TO be
continued to make big trade revival
possible.
Therefore, in the opinion of Euro
pean statesmen, America will be great
ly disappointed if she expects the re-
leasing of millions of men at present
in the field TO cause a stream Of migra-
ton westward across the Atlantic oW-
ing to bad conditions in Europe
The greatest and most pressing
question dealt with by the Rome con
ference was OF course, that of the
organization of huge united offensive
strokes on the main fronts this year.
The moment for delivering these
simultaneous blows will be decided
upon by the commanders in chief but
ii is no secret that by next April the
millions Of men aud women working
in munluiun factories VIII have pro-
duced sufficiently enormous quantities
of guns and shells for the beginning
of continuous offensive that Will
break beyond repair the belt Of iron
laid BY the GtrInanic invaders across
Europe Had not enten1e statesmen
been sincerely convinced II their stead
ily increasing nilItars superiority over
Germany they would not have shut