The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-03-05

phone company owners? Already,
including the railroad employees, who
are in fact government employees be-
cause congress can raise their wages
one-sixth of the voting population of
the United States is on the govern
ment payroll, enough to decide cleo
tons. The government can do some
things well, but what would happen
| If the government tried to do every
thing, and everyone dependent on
the government for his wages?
Danger of Socialism
"The necessity of war is drawing
US irresistibly into the very mael-
strom of socialism, and if any party
continues to urge government owner
ship after the war-then socialism is
here"
This is the socialism," he said,
(which is little short of the socialism
advocated by the new republic and
the socialism which means the over
throw of the industrial system of
the United States and the world. 1t
is more dangerous to our industrial
and social systems than any of the
problems of the great war; for under
it every one would be guaranteed an
income by the government"
The socialist party of the United
States, he said, should be held up to
scorn for its disloyalty to the govern
ment.
The socialist party at a conven-
ton in st. Louis" he said. termed
our entry into the war crime
against our people and the nations
OF the world, declaring that socialists
would be justified in taking up arms
against existing conditions. Last
week, the socialists met again at New
York, and did not modify in the least
their st. Louis platform. l know of
no party in the history of any coun-
try to show themselves so disloyal as
that"
Mr.. Rainey was introduced to the
combined meeting by w. H. White,
Jr., president of the chamber of COM
merce, after WV Orr, president of
the Retail Merchants Association. ex-
planned that the speaker was the
guest of the latter association and
came to Atlanta in response to an
invitation made through Congress-
man William Schley Howard.
The speaker went into details re-
viewing the causes that led up to the
entry of the United States in the
war, which he said so far as Germany
is concerned is a commercial war
and FASTENED by that country so it
might obtain control of the vast areas
of Mesopotamia.
This" he said, twas the CONNER
cial dream of Germany; the capture
of the vast reclaimable areas of Mes
opOtamia and through connections
with the Bagdad railway develop the
richest section of the world to put
Germany over America, Germany
over all"
Although Americas entry into the
war was belated, it was marked, he
pointed out, by the attainment of a
national efficiency which even the
Germans could not belittle. He told
of the suppression of spies; of the
seizure of German merchant vessels,
their conversion into transports to
carry men and food to the allies; of
the unprecedented construction of
ships in the navy yards of America 4;
of the organization of our armies,
which enable us to muster ten mil
lion men into service, $the largest
army "ever mustered by a white
race"
American Proves.
He recounted how $4,000 scientific
men enlisted in the service of the
nation; how the liberty bond issues
and the Red Cross campaigns were
oversubscribed; and the next bond
issue in April, he continued, twill
be oversubscribed"
-Four hundred. thousand young
Americans" he said, "are in the
fields of northern France, holding i'm
portant sectors, waiting the expected
assault of the German attack; and
in our sixteen war cities there are
hundreds of thousands more almost
ready to go over"
The war, he continued, has al
ready cost the United States S6,700,-
100000, while it has cost the allied
countries $4,000, O0O,00O.
The gross cost of the war to the
United States every day, which in
cludes loans to the allies, he said, is
$40,000,000, while the net cost is
$29,000,OOO.
"But, we are better able to stand
that cost than any other country"
he said. eve are the only people
who are spending less to conduct the
war than our income. All the other
countries are spending more than
their incomes.
when we see all this we feel that
we cannot lose. This war will end
when we win it, whether it be two
years, ten years or twenty years. We
can stand a hundred years war for
the principles for which we are fight
ing"
RIJIIETIN ON pErAN YNcETTc