Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-03-29
VIE ENDoRsE STONE


involve herself in that brutal and I'M
lawful war in Europe. lingo clamor
is succeeding in arousing public SEN
timent as the Jingoes want it.
The Message has said that II en-
dorsed Senator w. ]. Stone in his
stand for impartial neutrality. Let
our merchant ships remain at home
and let munition and contraband
supplies rust and rot, but let us not
get into the war.
Mr.. Stone asks this pertinent ques-
ton.
who is at the head of this propa-
ganda7
answer, first, that the manufac-
turers Of munitions OF war, who so
far in supplying foreign demands
alone have earned annual dividends
running above $50 per cent, would
reap a even greater golden harvest
IL the United States should become
involved. Surely they must be be-
hind this war propaganda.
The shipping trust, headed by the
International Mercantile Marine was
organized by j. p Morgan & Co., and
is currently understood to be partly
owned by Mr.. Morgan's associates in
England. All of you know that now
and for long time trade between
the United States and Europe, even
neutral Europe, is under the control,
regulation, and supervision of Great
Britain-Great Britain having arbi-
trarily taken this control and super
vision into the hands of that gov
eminent. without the permission of
Great Britain 1t is hazardous even
for a neutral vessel to sail for any
European port, and Great Britain
assumes to determine what Amer
leans may or may not engage in
European export trade.
Morgan and his associates and
syndicates must be behind it.
Mr.. Morgan is the American fiscal
and business agent OF the British
Government-an enormously prof,
table employment. II is through
him that war loans are made fol
Great Britain and her allies to the
American people. and it is through
him that all contracts are made by
the British Government with Ameri
cans for war supplies. This is 6
matter of public record. having beer
so testified to before the Senate Fl
nance Committee. It therefore inev
itably follows that the Morgan com
bination will exhaust all of their pow
er to influence public opinion anC
excite a war spirit in the United
States favorable to their employers
Is not that true?
American investors in British ant
other war securities must be behint
II.
No doubt a thousand million dol
lars or more of these war securitie
have been sold in America, chief.
through the Morgan agency. Thei
value largely depends upon the out
come of the war. Every nation nov
engaged in this war, whether upol
the one side or the other, is stagger
ing upon the verge of national bank
ruptcy, and consequently the specie
of reputation is before the eyes o
these security holders. At the begin
ming of this war the President ad
vised American citizens against max
and I supplemented this advic
of the President in publ
statement to the same effect. o
course, both the President and
know that there was no way unde
our law to prevent these investment
by governmental introduction; bu
American citizens were appealed t
to keep aloof from such investments
partly because of the risk, and partl
on the ground of patriotism, becaus
We hhS" NhaN al AuGIlCd
became financially interested in tn
success of any one of the belligerent
he was apt to become a partisan o
that belligerent; and at that time tn
entire Washington Government wa
proclaiming the national policy @
impartial neutrality. These securit
holders must be behind this props
ganda.
Against munition manufacturers
the Shipping Thust, the Morgan synd
Gates, and the holders Of war secuI
tiles, who seek to plunge this peace
full and happy nation into the vorte
OF war to promote their selfish inter
ests-however they strive to disguis
their real purpose by noisy declal
atoms OF devoted patriotism sha