Weekly journal-miner., 1918-12-04


 August and September-in August 2S9. .570 and in September 257 ,43S.
 No such movement of troops ever took place before, across 5000 miles oi sea, followed by adequate equipment and supplies and carried safely through extraordinary dangers of at tack-dangers which were alike strange and infinitely difficult to guard against In all this movement only 75S men were lost by eneuy at tacks-530 of whom were upon a single English transport. which was sunk near Orkney islands
 "I need not tell you that what lay back of this great movement of men and material.
 Tribute to Army and Navy. .
 But it is not the physical scale and executive efficiency of prepara- ton. supply. equipment and dispatch that I would dwell upon, but the met tie and quality of the officers and men we sent over and of the sailors who kept the seas, and the spirit of the nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved them selves more quickly ready for the test of battle or acquired thmselveS with more splendid courage and achievement when put to the test.
 Discusses Domestic Problems.
 50 far as our domestic affairs are concerned, the problem of our return 70 peace is a problem of economic and industrial readjustment. That problem is less serious for us than if may turn out to be for the nations which have suffered the disarrange- ments and the losses of war longer than we. Our people. moreover. do not wait to be coached and led. They know their own business, are quick and resourceful at every readjust- ment. definite in purpose and self reliant in action. Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly tangled because luCN MOlliu Day hO aibNheAS' to them and go their own way.
 "All that we can do as their legis- lativc and executive servants IS to mediate the process of change here. there and elsewhere as we may. have heard much counsel as to the plans that should be formed and per sonallv conducted to a happy con summation. but from no quarter have I seen any general scheme of recon struction' emerge which I thought 1t likely we .could force our spirited business men and self-reliant labor CTS to accept with due pliancy and obedience.
 While the war lasted we set up many agencies by which to direct the industries of the country in the ser vice it was necessary for them to render. but which to make sure of an abundant supply of materials needed. by which to check undertakings that could for the time be dispensed with and stimulate those that were most ScrNlCeaDle III W dr. Dg NiiiNh NC SN''' for the purchasing departments of the government a certain control over the prices of essential articles and materials, by which to restrain trade with alien enemies, make the most of the available shipping and system atize financial transactions, both pub lie and private, so that there would be no unnecessary conflict or con fusion-by which, in short, to put every material energy of the country in harness to draw the common load and make of us one team in the ac- complishment of great task. But the moment we knew the armistice to have been signed we took the harness off. Raw material supplies which the government had kept on hand for fear there would not be enough for the industries that supplied the ar mics have been released and put into the general market again.
 Burden of Taxation.
 For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business read justments nothing is more important