Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-05-09
EXPORTS AMERICA NOT TO
FORGET THE WAR.
New York Times.l

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81 have just concluded q trip that
has taken me twice across the whole
United States" said Isaac +. Mar
cosson, the writer and lecturer, in
the HotelArlington yesterday. "The
most amazing discovery that made
on this trip is the well-nigh incredi-
BILE fact that America is forgetting
the war. 1t is as great crime to
forget the war as not to have fought
IN it at all. 1t is one thing TO have
won h war and quite another and
equally importan thing to see that
the war stays won. This troubled
hour is as much time Of rededica-
ton rs it is period of economic re-
construction. There's patriotism of
peace as potent as the patriotism of
war, and the great mass of our home
people do not seem to have discovered
it.
"The curse of America today is n
dangerous optimism that finds ex-
preston in I'VE have nothing to fear
from Germany. She is down and out.
No falacy could be more costly. Long
contact with German propaganda in
every neutral country in Europe
makes me believe that there is great
deal of camoufage about Germany's
protestations that she is economically
crushed. If the truth were really
known, Germany prepared as thor
oughly for peace as she labored forty
years for war"
Mr.. Marcosson gave as his reasons
for the belief that Germany could re-
store herself that she had, as no
other country, learned the supreme
lesson of self sufficiency; that prac-
tically the entire German war debt
was owed at home; that German in
dustry was more efficient and inten-
sive than ever before, and that she
had segregated immense stores of
raw material. "On the day the ar
mistice was signed" Mr.. Marcosson
said, she owned nearly billion
dollars worth of cotton and wool in
Switzerland, much of which / have
seen with my own eyes. In Spain she
possesses half billion dollars worth
of rubber and copper. She has prac-
tically monopoly on the Swedish iron
| ore output.
"All this material is being convert
ed into merchandise in German own
ed factories in Switzerland, Holland,
! Sweden, and Spain. 1t does not bear
the brand of Commercial Cain, Made
in Germany but is stamped, Made
in Switzerland Made in Holland,
Made in Sweden and Made in
Spain 1t is already in competition
with American and British goods in
! the neutral markets, and funhcp
the neutral markets, and if uncheck-
ed, will soon be flooding our own"
More important, however, Mr.. Mar
cosson said, was the German econom-
ic conquest of Russia. Called bust
ness enterprises" he continued, twill
never overcome this handicap. No
first aid to the German economic res
toration is more valuable than this
vast Slavic treasure house practical
ly at her front door.
Taking up discussion of Bolshe-
vism, Mr.. Marcosson said:
"Bolsheyism-the universal menace
today-is German product. Ger
man framed and German financed,
the prize package of discord that the
Teutonic cunning has handled the
world. / was in Petrograd when Lee
nine arrived. Figuratively, watched
him open his Pandora box of dissen-
sion and let loose a poinson gas.
have smelled it's fumes in half dozen
different countries since that time
Nowhere have they been more deadly
than in this very United States OF
, ours, where the reptile of-Bolshevism
rears it's head as the l. w. W.. 1t has
, standardized anarchy, put premium
, on destruction, imposed penalty OF
T prosperity. =, 1t is the new Prussian.
| ism.
"If we in the United States are t.
/. profit by Kerensky's mistake, we will
: meet new forces of evil with the fore
5 es of might. The American Bolshevis
a otherwise the l. w. W., need the fir
: ing squad instead of the federal in
s quiy. Disloyalty to the costly fruit
? of peace is no less treacherous thai
disloyalty to the nation at war. TIL
L. w WIS of today are full mate
: to the spies and pro-Germans of yes
). terday.