The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-04-27
WHY HUNS CAN'T
HOPE TO CONQUER

Got your letter. son. and must say
that it 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 accord
ing to your best Judgment.
Uncle Sans indebtedness is now
some $4,000, 900. .OO0-that is. if every
one of us had to dig downin our jeans
we would have to fork over about
$57 each. We are the richest coun-
try in the world in brains. pep and
natural resources. At the present
rate of spending we can go on for
the next eight years before we will
be in the same financial hole that
Germany is in now. Germany owes
$31, 900. .000, ,OO0-that is, each man.
woman and child now in Germany owes
1856. 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
Germany winning and if she loses
what are her chances of paying =?
Listen. Based on neutral estimates.
good enough for your dad. the pro-
portion of the people at war is sS8 per
cent. In other words. nine per cent
of the world population is trying to
put it over seventy-nine per cent of
the worlds population. It's too big
job for that mob of Huns.
That's why the German mark is
selling so far below par. son. And
another reason is that if she loses her
chances of paying are slim. Listen.
What chance has she to pay when
pauperism has been on the increase
there for years. According to DR..
Frederick Zahn, director of the Ba-
varian royal statistical Office at
Munich. Germany, that is the case,
and it's pretty good indication of
the amount of loose money floating
around there. The figures of the
German government are good enough
for me. The statistics of the official
employment 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 $310 and of skilled
workers 1878 per year. Compare
those figures with the total indebted
ness of each man, woman and child
now owes in Germany, or S456 each.
They've got to live. you know. and
how are they going to have anything
left with which even to begin to pay =?
I've been telling you about the good
condition, but listen. An rticle in
the Sozaile Praxis of Ber Novem-
ber IL. 1915. stated that in normal
times weekly wages of from z to 10
marks ($1.67 to 81 38) for female
workers and Ia to Is marks ($3. .33 to
$3.50 for male workers represented
the average wages paid in important
textile districts throughout Germany.
And its just the same in Germany as
it is here in regard to food prices.
They've increased about 100 per cent,
according to the same statistical re-
ports. These are some of the rea-
sons, son. why Pm a bull on this
country and a 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 Pm
loading up on the third Liberty bond
and on War Savings Stamps. Your
affectionate dad.