The Washington times., 1919-12-15
The Importance of Being English
And Some Other Things.

First England, for her valued Cmard Line,
got from the United States the great German liner Impe
tor Why and how did she get the ship? Because she
wanted it, and by asking for it. What right did
20 the ship? None.
The Imperaor has sailed for England under the British
nag carrying than thousand passengers and Incl
dsntay than Eve thousand tons Of coal taken e
gy more than the ship needed for her trip and in defiance
of violations
There threat holdup the ship and make her
put hack the coal, but that wasn't DONE
WHY? Because England didn't want it DONE
The motto seems to be- you want anything from the
United States Go rst and have yourself naturased
IN 1ngfshman, then come back and help yourself
:. Mexico has passed bill taking from Ameri
cans oil wells that they They passing another bill
restoring bull fighting Some day they may have fight
ON their hands, fight that will make bull fight dull
Not that the United States at present governed will
do anything We shall complain tearfuy and let 90 at
that
But it happens that old England has big interest in
the oil wells Of Mexico She holds great oil wells the
name OF Engshmen And she has arranged have the
handling and Of the greatest oil supply in Mexico prop
srty Of Mr. Doheny The English looking far ahead and
knowing that control of oil will mean control Of shipping
have arranged to get the oil And England unlike the
United States viii not be content say Mexico Please
don't"
Bertha Krupp Won Bohlen in her gigantic
work doing better than hammering swords into plow
shares She using factory to make locomotives
the cannon business being poor What great thing it
would have been for Germany in 1914 the Kaiser had
begun making locomotives at the Krupp works instead Of
beginning something else But that could not be- Kaisers
must have glory. There glory in cannon, none in
locomotives.
Even optimistic anarchists ought to learn
lesson from the coal strike the steel strike the sugar scare
y ETC. When put moasses in their coffee freeze in
the street find that trains have been cut Of learn that
they can build house because steel production is stoned
they are made to realize how much human beings depend
on each other.
You sit down at your breakfast. Somebody in the
tropics has worked to get you the pepper Somebody in
the salt mine has dug the salt Some one in Cuba or
elsewhere has cut the planted the beet to
supply You the sugar Miners underground poorly paid
living hard have supplied the coal to cook your coffee and
eggs.
It would be hard to live in happy -gou lucky world
everybody doing what he pleased nobody compelled to do
anything in particular We need system law compulsion
Of necessity Otherwise, no breakfast.
Congress Is agitated because the Govern.
ment this year will spend more than five billions of dollars
ten times as much the Republican party spent when
everybody was bowling about "a Billion Dollar Congress-
The United States Government is like the gentleman
who found it impossible to stop sending guinea pos
For this country it is impossible to stop spending
money.
Here is interesting feature of the money spendinp
We lend five billions to England. We say most oblig
ngy Never mind about the interest if it isn't conyen
ient"
The interest we DON'T GET amounts to s25ooooooo q
year.
We say we intend to have navy as big as any in the
world which means that must build more rapidly than
England
England is spending ships for the water and tho ali;