Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-18
Secretary Lane Says World
Has Horrible Reason to
Fear Germany but Will
Do So No More.
Cabinet Member Praises
Congress for Quick Legis-
islation and Says Wonders
Have Been Accomplished
by America in Short Time.
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Atlantic City, n. j., Sept 49,
There must be no ifs nor butts, no
crying for profits in the patriotic war
program of American business" Sec
retary of War Baker today warned
leaders of American business in the
war convention of the United States
chamber of commerce.
The waves breaking along this
boardwalk bring messages from afar"
he continued. Il seem to hear in their
chords and strains the cries of drown
ing children, the means of dying
mothers and deter in their watery
voices the tales of bombs dropped on
innocents from the air of lives
snuffed out in the mad battle of a
monarch for territorial aggrandize-
ment.
ALL WE HAVE PLEDGED.
We must answer these cries and
the cries Of England and France and
Russia that come to US on the waves.
The waves must carry back our reply
yes, ye free people of Europe, we
are marching millions strong; our SOL
diers, our business, our industries, all
we have, Is pledged in this great bur-
den you have been bearing
This is the message we must send.
We are too close to the cradle of
liberty, in Philadelphia, to send any
thing otherwise. 1t is a message that
cannot be effective unless you, of
American business, join in the send
Ing Of It,"
Bakers speech followed an address
by Secretary of the Interior Lane in
which the latter drew a scathlng in
dictment of Germany and pledged the
United States to war to victory.
FOR UNRELENTlNG WAR.
Other speakers, representing the ma
tions business firms, called for un-
relenting war until autocracy was
crushed.
Baker minced no words in declaring
that there was a disposition at the
outset of Americas embarkation on
the war program for business to be
''punctuated" with cries for profits.
Il feel certain that spirit is gone"
The war secretary added. 1T must be
gone
realize that the question is one of
production-not profits. That realiza-
tion has come, not by the adoption Of
laws but by business taking the tone
of the times and falling in behind the
government. This Is vital. When the
government called it's young men to
risk their lives in battle there was no
ifs nor butts with them.
Business can do no less than fol-
low suit"
Referring to the attitude of trade,
commerce and industry, toward its
labor, Baker continued;
In it's work of war business it must
remember there is a speed past which
it cannot go. Ii business wears out
the nerves and lives of it's workers,
1t makes an uneconomical use of it's
opportunity.
RIVALRY FOR TRADE.
Bear in mind that there will be
friendly rivalry for the trade of the
world after the war. We must not be
an enfeebled. devitaliZed and nervously
prostrated people, but be strong, Wig
orous and ready when the time comes
to rebuild.
Business must safeguard labor by
decent wages, proper hours and right
working conditions 1t must not allow
the sacrifice of one of the least OF
these"
Baker was accorded tremendously
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