Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-29

But II ! am concerned about our rela
tions with the United States. | am Still
more anxious about our relations with
britain. | realize as never before that ri!
the increase OF our wealth. all the success
which attended our enterprises in the
years before the war. was owing 10 our
Intercourse with the British Empire Her
home ports her Dominions and Colonies
we're freeiy opened to our shippers and
traders. Sometimes ] wondered al this
generosity, ana even called il folly. Is i.
70 pe imagined for moment that those
old relations viii return
/ am not 70 be supposed. dear Herr &C.
heinlrdt, saving one word IN favor OF
Brltain's policy in this war / believe tia /
she entered it from base motives. Not fur
4 moment do | believe in her humarita-
f!anism. her alleged desire to liDer1att or
protect small nationalities. Britain il 4
sfeedy ana Inscriptions Power. asaN ,.cr
past history proves. but now ! am ONLY
dealing with the TACT that BY our r9nduc;
OF this war by the nsensate FOLLY or our
tan-iermaHs and our unspaaka BILE Press.
We nave turned her Unborn dislike of lis
INTO loathing 50 cold, ana fierce, and
tasting. as sometimes to make me tr.mfl-
Tor the whole future OF our economic en-
istence.
consider what We are risking. We look
forward to reSumIg our sea trade VI,
bu!id our moudest expectations on this
HOW are we 70 resume il in face Of ali
Ang -SaXondom which ioathes and must
ioat our presence among them? 40 our
ZOOS OF CnaubiniStS realize tn4, We INV.
hardly port al which our ships can cali
ana where 4 friendly welcome Will l.. ~
tended TO them. Dover Falmouth, and
southampton Gibralter. Malta. ana AIN
a aI,i "a. Alden The Persian Gulf. Bombay
ana Colombo. Singapore and Hong Kong
"hat are they| Great British ar,.l1aie.
ndEa! bases coaling stations rcpairina,
COCKS, IN which we dare not show or
a%ers y hFitaIn 50 Wills It is the same
@ sho w me a,rcan continent, the same In
me west Indies and in The .-aci:ic. We
ii''he 'lot q coa!lng station Of olir own nor
q pace "here we can effect repairs YET
IN tace Of this-a most deadly serious
49, orl allalrs-"e go on piling up Of
hut we must beat England YOU say. 20
matter what the consequences. I agra
Al ! say is that whether We beat her N,
sne pca's us the consequences will be tie
S+me-disaster TO our overseas ,rad. j.
britain so wills it. We may in the nyan-
OF victory. impose all sorts Of conditions
securing US mOst-favored- nation treat
lhsn,' securing US free entry into British
~, = ,' sNelE "here. No sane man believes
ina ,hese conditions VIII help us.
And Just one point more. ana if ie FOR
laps quite as serious. With a hostile
bfl'lSn empire. CALLED and frotte4 With
our nliithry success raging a its losses.
cure the raw material which thjs En,r,i~e
alone can supply? You have studied tb,s
question: and am sure OF your agrees
n!eh' l"n do not believe in the SHY as
seitI"h th'' after the war these British
maketli Tor raw material will he Omen 70
US mere are we to procure our SUPPLIES
OF Jute il not from India? IF we are
driven from Africa, where are we to seek
Ior our full supplies OF rubber palm kerr
ne|s and copra?
what prospect. Within the British
Empire are produced countless articles ON
winch we have hitherto relied. ami which
VII ne indispensable in the future If w
are 10 SWIM and not 70 sink Wool from
south Africa and Australia. spelter, wtll-
ram nickel cobalt and endless more.
: Ihdt great Empire is se!f-conta:Mel. ana
we are MOI. And all the military victor
,es and all the wild will-o-wisps about
Hamburg 10 Bagdad VII! not heln us-l
remain. my dear Geheimrat. etc
ALBERT BALM