El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-06
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the effect that when they heWed
~ the sphinxs visage. favoritisn
governed kissage- It expresses q great
economic law, albeit one which Is
never mentioned IN the COLLEGE text
books-most OF which were written
directly or indirectly by Germans. The
travelling salesman whose business is
applied economies and who pays sesnt
attention TO the iron law Of wages"
supply and demand and such like
bookish gadgets. has a great respect
for kipling's law, which he rephrases
as "a man likes TO trade with mis-
/ friends"
The Prussian bureaucracy is COM
posed Of hard-headed. university
trained men with the curious German
type OF mentality: a mentality which
wire from headquarters and stops and
starts on signal only That which is
taught at college and that which is
scientific they believe utterly, that
tific II is not ordered shall be believed.
Kipling's law would in no way appeal
to them, If they ever heard Of It
In 1914, Germany had great indus
trial organization which covered the
whole world and was covering II more
trical goods for example, copper was
mined in Arizona and sent to Ger
many. In Berlin the Allgemeine
Elextticita etsgesellschaft General
Electric company made wire OF It
and wound the wire into dynamos.
motors and 50 on which might, and
very frequently did, get back TO Ari-
zcna- Our General Electric company,
in Schenectady, did the same thing.
and in making wires or dynamos jn
n~r 4 - ~
cheaper: but not on special orders or
special designs. There the German
company with its ability to hire high
~ trained specialists for hand work
at SO a week. had the edge And
when Il came to international trade,
the German concern with its govern
mental affiliations and AFFILIATIONS
with government steamship lines put
1t all over the Schenectady outfit
which was somewhat hampered by our
antitrust laws and the like.
Copper is only an Illustration: the
same thing was true in thousand in
dustries- Germany was slowly and
peacefully getting a strangle hold On
almost everything which was worth
while. but the ruling class baked ct
the word slowly and was not con-
cerned about the word peacefully
never having really heard of Kipling's
law and being skeptical about such
power anyhow. They wanted to get
IlcA QUICK QUICKER anyhow ana Lley
spread the German army out over the
edges with the Industrial establish
ment following close in its wake.
grabbing Belgium first because that
was really. per square mile. the most
concentrated industrial country In the
world It was the naive German cal
culation to annex everything in the
manufacturing line which was worth
while. including Belgium. north
France and Russian Poland: smash
the remnants OF France and Russia
and then England; get indemnities to
pay expenses and then impose most
favored nation clause" treaties on the
beaten nations We were to follow
in our turn. That kind OF smash and
treaty had worked well with France
in 1870 and there was no apparent
reason why il should not keep on
In 1870, Germany took from France
her best iron mines in Alsace-Lor-
raine. collected a colossal indemnity
and By the treaty Of Frankfort re-
! CURED that If French customs laws
favored anybody, the favor should au-
tcmaticaily extend to Germany And
German trade with the German gov
eminent behind il and the indemnity
TO help along, throve in France;
France was helpless and could not.