Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-07

there are 100000 idle workers in the
United States and that thousands Of
returning soldiers will want work,
adding that normal employment could
be obtained with normal volume of
new orders. He is probably right
but until some stability Of industry is
restored orders will not be forthcom-
ing in normal volume. Business is
stalled, and when this j true every
thing else is out of normal because
business is the foundation Of our ma
tional welfare. We already see what
hardships 1t is working in this coun-
try, but We can stand it far better
than France 10 whom this unneces-
sary delay may well-nigh prove fatal;
or than England almost in the throes
Of social revolution.
Third, We want our soldiers and
sailors to come home, but they can
not come and We 90 not want them
TO come until the war is over and we
are sure that they will not have to
crosS the ocean again. When they do
come We and they want to feel that
Germany has been so dealt with that
she will never again attempt to wreck
the world, and that she will be such
an object lesson that any other power
which might rise from her ashes
would not dare to risk it. To that
end We want the terms Of peace to be
made.
Fourth, the war must end so that
Germany MAJ begin payment Of her
indemnities France and Belgium in
particular must be provid ID for at
| once. They prefer to receive the
money due them from Germany to
raising loans in this country for OBJ
vious reasons. The conference COM
mittee on reparation has estimated
! 81 900. 10000 as the amount the en-
envy countries ought to pay, and OF
this amount France demands $780,
00o, 900 Immediately. part in gold, part
in materials and part in foreign Sc
curities. recommending that the re-
mainder be payable in IS to IS years.
Our own bill against the central pow
ers is put at $3.50. 100000 and while We
are not in desperate straits, it would
be we'll to have this quarter century
bill collecting begun as soon as pos
sible.
Fifth, Germany herself is in state
| Of upheaval which is unhealthy for
the rest Of the world. Ending Of the
war would have its effect on her in
terIal situation. 1t is still uncertain
whether she will develop a new form
of government which will be an i'm
provement on the old. or whether she
is waiting for the declaration Of peace
to try a coup detat and restore the
Hohenzollern. At any rate we should
find out one thing or the Other. which
is preferable to the present guesswork
plan.
Sixth, the latest thing in propagan-
da has been laid before the Senate
foreign relations committee by some
Ar,orj~ap r;,i,onu ~,ho h..o ;,,.< -
turned from Central and South Amer
lea 1t is a plan for "A Latin Amer
Of protecting them from the United
States. The men who discovered the
scheme are convinced that it Is Ger
man from top to bottom and that it
seeks to ALLEVIATE the South American
countries from the United States so
that the commercial conquest Of that
part Of the world will be easier when
the trade war begins. The scheme
has been doomed especially in Mexico
and the Argentine and has made such
progress since Christmas that influ :
entail representatives Of those two
countries have laid the proposition
before many. II not all. Of the Latin
American states. Every bit Of evil
dence that is at all plausible has been
used to poison them against the
United States and to prepare the way
for the entrance OF a hypocritica]
friend which is Germany.
These are not all the reasons why
the war should end. but they are the
most potent ones and would seem SUI
dciently urgent to bring the peace
conference out Of the clouds and dowr
to solid realities.
II Congress in its nat failure had
done no worse than to save dayligh,
saving by emitting to snuff the legis.