The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-27
.,, of Edward w. McManus to
x.okuk Commercial Club Last
Evening Was Thought
out Thoroughly.
! pERPLExING PROBLEM
j.. be Solved With Big Brains and
craftsmanship, Recognizing
That We Have Made
Selves World Wide.

ut.s a great problem. gentlemen. of
..nv phases and many ramihca-
s@nsn said Edward w. McManus IN
ssa,nn,ne his address on reconstruc-
~ after the war. to the Keokuk
Commercial club last evening.
sv "The world has lost much that can
:. he replaced in this war-think of
~ trea sures Of art destroyed at
ohe,ms. Louvain and Antwerp and
prmssels. Look at Belgium. today
Md white, crushed. destroyed. Take
Carh,a all of a sudden crushed until
,odav there are only handful of
nav incubation left. Think Of Ar
r,an,a and of Russia and her won
dsrful resources, which all OF sur
dem collapsed. Germany and Austria
are crushed to earth.
4The world today is crushed and
naralyzed as was never seen before.
aOut of this waste and slaughter
and valley of tears, surely God above
must bring some good, and He Will
ming good. The battle of the aver
AGE man against tyranny is at last
ended and from now on justice shall
nreyail and every man have q
chance"
Recognizing In Billions.
Readjustment concerns America
more than does reconstruction, said
Mr.. McManus. A couple of years ago
American business men were hard
At work. not expecting the fire to
spread to us, but when it did come
every American rose to the occasion.
Billions have been taken to pay the
eypenses of the war and at the end
Americans raised a new Liberty loan
Of sc, 900, 600, 900. America has an
annual earning capacity Of over $50.
O6OOOO.0O and America has q
national wealth greater than that Of
England, France and Germany COM
bined.
in this war, America has found
herself and sees her future greater
than ever before" said the speaker.
He quoted Spanish grandee's pro-
phecy in 1882 Of how this pigmy
nation would grow into a giant.
But with all our growth we have
been provincial nation he said
The American farmer did not need
intensive forming and American
business men did not need to seek
the markets of the world.
The New Era Of Commerce.
"But the time has come when
America much reach out and claim
her share of the worlds trade and
commerce. and fortunately our
cfoyo 10 Nd
Incorporated the international corpor-
alton much like the old English trad
ing companies. Its money of hun
dreds of millions is to be used in
financing business in other countries.
The time has come when America
can no longer live to herself. We
are now playing part in world poll.
tics and the president of the United
States will sit at the peace table at
Versailles and there virtually dictate
the futures of many foreign peoples"
We have built upon tremendous
scale merchant marine, long
neglected, to carry American COM
merce to every corner of the world.
II the present program is carried out,
america in little over year will
siV IVA CllooI Cidi iatiSh
OF the world, he explained, and said:
The price in the foreign markets
OF the world fixes the price in our
domestic market. 1t devolves on our
statesmen to see to it that there Is
foreign market for our surplus
corn and factory products.
Foreign and Domestic Trade.
THAT is being done. There are two
phases OF readjustment, one related
10 International affairs and the other
related to our national affairs, but
both are SO interrelated that we can
not consider one without speaking Of
The other. America cannot prosper
by living to herself, but must enter
he worlds commerce."
Calling our internal affairs very
ielicate ones, Mr.. McManus referred
% the wartime concentration of
power, and called some of the new
governmental functions socialistic.
de said some of President Wilson's
policies would never be tolerated in
line Of peace, some have succeeded
IND some have been failures. Gov
'rnment ownership is only one ques-
ION OF a hundred that must be
settled in the near future, he said.
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