The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-13
WHY HUNS CANT
HOPE TO CONQUER

Got your letter, son, and must say
that il surprised me. Certainly I'm a
bull on the United States. And I'm
selling Germany short Just keep
reading this letter over until you get
the facts pasted upon your mental
billboard and then act according to
your best judgment
Uncle Sans Indebtedness is now
some $4,000, 900, ,000-that is, If every
one of US had to dig down in our
jeans we would have to fork over
about $57 each. We are the richest
country in the world in brains, pep
and natural resources. At the pres
ent rate of spending we can go on for
the next eight years before we will
be in the same financial hole that Ger
many is in now. Germany owes $751;
and child now in Germany owes $456
You ought to be pretty well versed
by this time on the wage question
and living expenses in the United
States, so / will not take that up
right now. What you want to know
is; What are the chances of Ger
many winning and if she loses what
are her chances of paying? Listen
Based on neutral estimates. good
enough for your dad, the proportion
of the worlds population fighting Ger
many is some 79 per cent and the
proportion of the people at war is SS
per cent. In other words, nine per
oant as tha vxnrId nanuIaffan a. trviuu
TO put 1t over seyenty-nine per cent
of the worlds population. It's too big
a job for that mob of Huns.
That's why the German mark is
selling so far below par, son. And
another reason is that il she loses
her chances of paying are slim. Lis
ten. What chance has she to pay
when pauperism has been on the in
crease there for years. According to
Dr. Frederick Zahn, director of the
Bavarian royal statistical Office at
Munich, Germany, that is the case,
and it's a pretty good indication of the
amount of loose money floating
around there. The figures of the Ger
man government are good enough for
me. The statistics of the official en-
ployment bureaus of the grand duchy
show that in January of 1914 for over
100 registered jobs for men there
were 273 applicants. Jobs were scarce
there. In 1908 the German statistical
official records showed that the yearly
earnings of unskilled workers were
1910 and of skilled workers 1878 per
year. Compare those figures with the
total Indebtedness of each man, wo-
man and child now owes in Germany,
or sass each. They've got to live. you
know, and how are they going to have
anything left with which even TO be
gin to pay? I've been telling you
about the good condition, but listen
An article in the Sozaile Praxis o.
Berlin. November IL. 1915. stated that
in normal times weekly wages of from
to 10 marks (s1.67 to $2.3S) for fe-
male workers and IA to Is marks
1888 TO $3.50 for male workers rep
resented the average wages paid in
important textile districts through
out Germany. And it's just the same
in Germany as II is here in regard to
food prices. They've increased about
100 per cent. according to the same
statistical reports. These are some of
the reasons. son, why I'm bull on
this country and bear on Germany.
and that's why / cut down my Christ
mas check to you and the wife. 1t
will be the same this year. for I'm
loading up on the third Liberty bond
and on War Savings Stamps. Your
affectionate dad.-[Tonopah Bonanza.