The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-09

: the nations are to be made information
e al in spirit and purpose. Steam, cleo
! aricity, international news agencie
S and international commerce are bind
ing the world together. All that oul
S minds and hearts must do is to fol
low closely and not lag behind
What Russia Needs
To return to Russia-Russia re
: quires one thing only-capital. She
is a borrowing nation. She has no
borrowed largely from Germany be
cause Germany has invested her sur
pluc wealth in her own enormous in
dustrial system. Without that indus
trial system Germany would have in
vested in Russia. AS it is, her own
mines, her own factories and rail-
roads, and her own growing foreign
commerce have absorbed practically
all her commercial capital. There is
but one country from which Russia
can borrow in sums which meet her
need. That country is France.
France Has the Money
France has great sums of capital
stored up, but no industrial system
of her own to absorb it, AS she
Igoes about the world to seek an in
tvestment field she finds that Russia
will pay her the largest increase.
Russia is the greatest of all borrowers
France is the greatest of all lenders
among the nations, Britain alone ex-
copied. France has loaned $1,000
100000 to Russia and a $1,000,00O, 900
| to Russias allies in the Balkans
There we have the secret of the Fran
Ico-Russian alliance. where your
treasure is there is your heart ALSO
and not only your heart, but your
help in the form of your diplomacy,
Iyour army and your navy
What is an Alliance9
A political alliance is nothing more
than business partnership. A great
modern war is largely matter of
business competition. Yet such war
as we now see is not even good bust
ness. 1t would not have been started
primarily by business men. 1t was
started by Prussian aristocrats, be-
cause Prussian aristocrats know no
weapons but the weapons of war. Ger
man business men would have COM
promised with Russia had they ruled
Germany NIilitarism and autocracy
knows no compromise. It's rule is
absolute and relentless.
France and Germany
Let us now compare France and |
many. Before the war the average
American or Englishman looked upon |
Germany as Industrious, highly moral |
frugal, and hence prosperous This
average American or Englishman look
ed upon France as immoral, frivolous
and superficial Germany was sue
ceedng because she was virtuous.
Franc was failing because of her lack
of virtue This view is entirely wrong.
The world now knows what France is,
and what France can do. France is
one of the soundest nations in the
world. A French family in the coun-
try can get better living out of three
acres of land than any other family
ms Europe. French home life is the
equal in soundness and high ideals
TO any home life in Europe What is
the difference between France and
Germany? Let me explain by refer
ence to the geography of their devel-
)pment
When France was United
A hundred and twenty-five years
ago France had more people than
Germany France had then much
more wealth than Germany For eve
y commercial ship Germany had on
he sea, 125 years ago, France had
It least a dozen. In the Napoleonic
vars France flattened out Germany
ike steam roller would flatten out
dozen eggs. France was powerful
ecause France was united. France
vas united because she had mountains
nd seas upon 80 per cent of her
rontiers. She had more wealth than :
because she had better soil
han Germany, and more and better
eaports. She made her wealth out .
f her land and out of her ships.
had poorer land and fewer
hips. She could not have sea power
ecause she lacked unity. She lacked :
nifty because her geography did not
S yet permit her to evolve a united
tate. A united state came to Germa-
y only with railroads and modern
ldustty. I.
How Changes Came
Herein we have the great changes -
5 regards the relative positions of
rance and Germany. The industrial
evolution altered their comparative
atuS. The industrial revolution of :
lie nineteenth century did more to
1ange the world than all the forces
1000 years previously. Men began :
make their bread and butter not out F.
the soil, nor by tools, but by the use
mines and factories and high pow
: machinery. In a day of steam and
ectricity, of iron and of steel, Ger
any found herself immensely rich in
lie essentials, which are coal and =
on F.
Poor in Coal and Iron
France. poor in coal and iron, can
1t be great in day of modern in
lstry. Take the iron and coal out =
Germany, put it in the hillsides of
rance, and all those intellectual :
rces which form the mind of F,
'ance would teach the absolute ne
,ssity of large families. French =
others would have large families to
DIRK her mines and factories her
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