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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Future Of This
Country Called Bright

"There cannot we'll be a conflict be-
tween New York and London; the world
is quite big enough for two great mar
kets, and it ought to have at least two.
The Americas form SO Dig q field that
all OF your resources can prof taby be
put there. it is not really our field at
all, for geography must in the end de-
termine such matters. Here in London
we serve some 400 100000 people in
Europe, not to speak OF the Orient; we
are on the trade routes and they are
accustomed to trade with us. We own
their securities
Just look at the securities traded in
in New York and then look at the Lon
don Stock Exchange. Your list is short:
ours covers daily sixteen closely printed
newspaper pages, with q supplement of
TOUR pages That means that these
people come naturally to London for
money. And we have it for them and
will continue to have it. But just as
they naturally come here for money,
South America should go to New York,
and so perhaps should parts of the Far
East. cannot see any reason for
comparing or contrasting London and
New York, for both have their spheres
and the world Will become better as
each of them grows larger.
we SHoulu not De IN WOfld trade II
we knew any other way to live; we are
in from necessity and not from choice,
and that makes great difference.
think you will go into that trade
largely from choice, whereas there is
a great market Mt home which never
can be exhausted. Your home market
is bigger and has greater possibilities
than all the markets OF Europe put
together
"lf | were IN American | should not
worry much about the future"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Time of Good
free Land rs Gone

They have all got to be fed and
iocd and clothing and shelter depends
upon the land and the supply of nat
aFa1 products. The area of land is
united, and the cheap supply Of nat
ufai products is depleted. To the first
se'tlers lumber was an incumbrance
Of the soil; it was cut down and
burned or girdled to be rid of it. Now
s'nosr Is scarce, ard we are not grow
ing 1t as fast as we consume it.
and 10 unit! few years ago there
vas always an abundance of good cheap
'@hds further West. beyond the settle
A'snss' TO which the population con-
sanity oyer6owcd. That time has
s'ns by. The free lands are gone.
me cheap lands are gone. The in
s'sasea production Of the country must
spae Row from lands upon which a
considerable expenditure must be made.
f'sHsr Tor irrigation, drainage or clear
and BY more scientific methods Of
ssssiyas'on. Between the census Of
:. ~ and that Of 1910 the population Of
i ~ country increased u per GENT and
~ ares in farms increased liz per cent,
~ mHcn Of that Is per cent was far
= rs'sw the average OF productiveness
: = hesuaes a great amount Of land in
Is 500 belt Of uncertain crops, and
s. 49, q y Is land Of poor quality that
besn passed over heretofore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Why Not Import
Employers Of Labor?

The principle involved here is
simply the old rule that when la
borers are scarce and hard to find
wages tend upward, and when they
are numerous and easy to find
wages tend downward. A restriction
of immigration, even more, an eX-
clusion of immigration to this coun-
try, tends to make laborers scarce
and hard to find. Unrestricted i'm
migration tends to make them
numerous and easy to find.
If we could import fifty thousand
ready made employers, with the
technical skill, managing ability and
accumulations of capital that would
enable them to start new industrial
enterprises at once to compete with
our native employers, that kind of
immigration would be worth while
from the laboring mans point of
view. That would greatly increase
the demand for laborers. Each en-
ployer would then find that labor
ers were scarce and hard to find.
Employers would then have to bid
against one another to get laborers
to work for them. This would not
be so very pleasant for our native
employers, but it would be i'm
mensely pleasant for the native la
borers.
The immigrants into the Philip
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

can be sold. l have been hoping that
the example Of your working people
would have some influence here and we
might get a better basis of coopera-
ton. You know we are very far from
being dead!
GAS far as money is concerned, we
have plenty of it. 1t is inflated money
but in that respect we are no differ
emily off than you. Your Federal Re
serve banks have been issuing money,
too, 1t is highly important that the
nations cooperate in considering the
question of international imitation.
"We shall need great deal of money
to reconstruct industry. Manufact-
urers will require advances to change
their plants back to a peace basis and
they will also require larger working
capitals, for goods and labor have so
risen that the same working capital as
before the war will not produce the
same volume of output. In addition
the engineering manufacturing and
puts to large extent and we shall
have to find money to finance their ex-
banded capacities and hence their ex-
banded markets. The money needs of
England are:
"(a) For a considerable period after
the war a greater demand for work
ing capital, owing to the increased cost
of labor and materials, the necessity
for giving longer credit and the an
tcipatcd expansion in the volume of
trade.
"(b) A greater demand for EXTENDED
credits for the purpose of replacing,
at higher costs, machinery and plant
which have fallen into disrepair on
account Of the war.
"(c) Requirements for reconverson
of plant and works which may in
many cases be on the border line
between working credit facilities and
new capital requirements in respect of
permanent outlay.
"(d) New fixed capital requireme hts
IN respect of permanent outlay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Shutting OFF Cheap Labor Supply From
Abroad to Hurt Business of Spreader
of Discomfort, Professor Holds

portion as men were harder to find
the reward had to be increased.
We are now facing a time when
not so many men will be needed.
The soldier and the munition work
ers must find places in other indus
tries. 1t looks as though laborers
would be much more numerous and
much easier to find than in war
time. The laborers show by their
actions that they anticipate hard
er time in maintaining high wages
than they had during the war. They
are preparing to resist any tendency
70 reduce wages. Why all this wor-
ry? They know that there is need
for worry on their part.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

export gold when the exchanges
moved against us; this caused a
shrnkage in the gold reserve and a
rise in the Bank of England rates to
keep credit in its ratio to reserves.
Raising the interest rate caused gold
to be again attracted and also caused
people to pay off loans and TO post
pone new ones. If money were tight
and loans could not be renewed, goods
had to be sold at low prices, and this
encouraged export and the gradual
return to the equilibrium. Gold be-
ing the basis for loans and debts be
ing payable legally in gold credit
could always be kept in check. There
fore gold not only maintained the
whole financial structure but kept the
general level of price in consonance
with world prices-that is. gold prices,
The withdrawal of gold as a circulate
ing medium has removed the old
check on credits and consequently on
prices; it was necessary to do that be-
cause otherwise commercial crises
could not have been avoided.
"Therc is too much credit in the
world and getting back to The gold
standard and it's cheek on credits is
prime necessity; for the state to aid
industry through further borrowings
through further expansion of credit
would only be to raise prices and
postpone the inevitable reckoning.
"Our committee therefore recon-
mended in brief that finance be
brought back to private basis and
that banks generally increase their
capital and pursue liberal but not
too free u credit extension policy.
They have told us that they have ample
funds to meet all needs and hence
saving this one question of imitation,
there seems to be no financial danger.
We do not need money from the out
side, for, in addition to the credit ia
cilties, I think that the shareholders
of corporations should come forward to
meet some of the increased capital re-
quirements of their companies And
they are already doing that. Every
issue that has been offered of late has
been largely oversubscribed in spite Of
the concurrent taking Of war loans
"Do you think that the internal re-
quirements of England will be so great
that the London money market will
give way to New York SHAT New
York will be the new financial centre ?''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
From, Machine Gun
To .S0lesn,on's Counter

He soon became an expert and an
authority on the construction and op-
Grafton of this deadly war invention
of the United States. When he was
told to take one of the machine guns
to demonstrations planned as features
OF the war savings campaign he went
along merely because he was proud of
the wonderful weapon and delighted at
the chance to show the public what all
effective Hun-kiler it would make.
Inc war savings authorities set I'D
booth in front of the Public Library.
at the Fortysecond Street corner Of
flfth Avenue, as the best place to
show the gun. 1t was the one corner
that all New York and that large per-
centage of the population of the rest
OF the country that is always visiting
New York was sure to pass. 1t was
just when there was the most talk
about the marvellous new rapid-firer
the United States had developed for its
army, and there was tremendous inter-
est in the exhibit.
Even at that corner, where the back
firing of the countless motor cars
sometimes gives a fair imitation of a
sklrmlsh, there was no mistaking the
snarllng rat-tat-tat-tat from the booth
Tor anything but machine gun fire.
every burst" Sergeant Upton fired
drew crowd.
For while Sergeant Upton minded
his own business, which was to put the
pachlne gun through its PAGES, and he
left the stamp selling to the other
workers. But soon he began to take an
interest in it. Before he realized it he
found he was selling with the best of
them. Next thing he knew he was es-
tablishing records
When the Browning gun exhibit ut
the library was discontinued, it was
found that Sergeant Upton alone had
sold 100000 worth OF war savings
stamps. BY this time he was sealot
on stamp selling, but he never dreamed
that he might be able 10 sell oiher
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Uncle Sam 8 Selling School
By-Pr0duct of Var Finance
How Vendors of Thrift Stamps and Liberty Bonds
Made Regulations as Statesmen and Won Places
in Commercial Fields; $4,000 Trained Here

7 AS Uncle Sam been running a
gigantic school for statesmen :?
1t begins to look like it, as
been offered good jobs as statesmen
been offered good jibs as statesmen
as result of regulations made selling
war savings stamps and other gov
eminent securities.
When the stamp campaigns first be-
gan plumbers. lawyers, plain business
men, housewives, schoolgirls and al
most every type Of citizen pitched in
to help the government They did not
care whether they knew anything
about craftsmanship or not. Nine out
of ten Of them did not. But in spite
of that they sold stamps.
OF course, many professional sales
men Joined the campaign. And there
were many experts who did their best
to instruct the army of volunteers in
the art Of selling. But whether it
was the example Of the professionals,
the advice of the experts, or merely
practice making perfect, the amateur
salesman certainly did improve as
time went on.
Many OF these amateur statesmen
have succeeded so we'll in selling
stamps that they have decided they
could sell other things as we'll. and
they are making craftsmanship their
life work
Sergeant Frank f. Upton, war
savings stamp salesman, who was one
of the most familiar figures of the
campaign, has just been offered
place as salesman for one of the
biggest New York lumber companies
Before the war he was a machinist.
He says himself he "never thought he
could sell SO bill" He enlisted in
the Ordnance Department from his
home town. Springfield, Mass. Be
cause of his mechanical skill he was
assigned to work on the Browning ma
chine gun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

things just as we'll. 1t was not until
he was actually offered a position as a
salesman that he became alive to his
new qualifications
The offer was made when Upton's
talents came to the attention of
Charles A. Smith, a wholesale lumber
man, with an Office on lower Broadway.
Mr.. Smith was in charge of the war
savings stamp campaign in downtown
Manhattan when Upton and his Brown
ing gun were brought down from the
library and set to work selling stamps
at the booth at Bowling Green. Before
Upton finished the demonstration
there, Mr.. Smith had made him promise
to come back and sell lumber for his
company as soon as he got out of the
army.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
By Samuel Crowther
NeW York Tribune
European Bureau

NeW Yorl. Tribune
European Bureau
Copyright. 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
n ONDON, Feb. 81 had a talk
with Robert Fleming, the Eng
lsh authority on American in
vestments, to-day, in the course Of
which he brought out these extremely
important facts or opinions on the
financial relations between Great Brit
ain and the United States and most of
which run quite contrary to what we
in America have been taking as the
truth:
I That instead of England being
heavily indebted to the United
States and having in addition sold all
of her American investments, the war
exceed $4,000, 100000 when the accounts
are settled, and that the English in
vestors still have probably more than
that amount of money out in American
securities, especially in farm mort
cages.
> That England has ample money for
all her needs in the way of recon
version of factories and the finance Of
foreign trade and will also have in
vestment money for export and devel-
opment abroad.
9 That New York cannot because of
its geographical situation, and I'M
familiarity with world commerce, dis
place London as a world money market,
but will rather be new market to
meet the expanding needs of the West
crn world.
A. That the logical and inevitable field
for American activity is the Ameri-
cas- and that it will be there she will
find her greatest opportunities.
= That once labor is settled, England
has no cause to fear her financial
and commercial future and without the
necessity for anything approaching a
trade war, which would be suicidal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Restricted Immigration
Makes Labor Scarce Here

During the last year ship car
penters have been getting good
wages. One very important reason
was that there was a large demand
for and limited supply of
them. If there had been a large
supply from some other country
which could have been drawn upon
indefinitely the wages of ship car
penters would not have been so
high. Any one who would have adj
vocated drawing largely upon that
outside supply would have been a
friend of the employers, and not of
the ship carpenters. Any one who
would have favored a restriction
upon the importation from the out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
That, at Least, Is the Opinion of T. N.
Carver, Who Argues Policy Will Tend
to Keep Wages High i'm America

side would have been a friend of
the ship carpenters, and not Of the
employers.
1t is not for me to say whether
one ought to have been on the side
of the employer or on the side of
the ship carpenters in such a stu
alton as that. The question is,
What would have been the attitude
toward immigration of the man who
was really on the side of the ship
carpenters, and what would have
been the attitude of the man who
was really on the side of the en-
blowers?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
By George E. Roberts
Dy S1oo4 % = "
Assistant to the President. National City
Bank Of Ncw YorL;

Assistant to the President National City
Bank Of Ncw York
Addressing New York state Farmers.
THERE is no mystery about the
rise of the cost of living. From
the beginnings of settlement
in this country we have been
exploiting the natural resources OF
continental wealth Of soil,
Of minerals and timber that had
been in preparation for thousands OF
years. They had almost no value TO
the first settlers-they were free as
air to the early corners, but in an IN
credibly short space of time popula-
ton has spread over the continent un-
til everything but air and sunshine
has price upon it, There has never
been a parallel to the settlement of
this country, and there never will be
again, because there is no other coun-
try like it to be settled. When my
father went TO the territory Of Iowa
there were less than 2O,OOO,00o people
in the United States, and my children
will see 200,0OO,000.
And the population Of the whole
world has been increasing. Even the
var will make but slight impression
upon it. The British Isles have sent
millions to this country, but they have
several times as many as they had
when emigration began. Germany has
sent millions and gained many millions
more. They have come from Scandi-
nayia and Austria, Italy and all lands,
and without any diminution Of the
number at home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
After All, Is England Really Under Such
Tremendous Financial Obligation to Us?
British Holding of American Securities Especially in
Authority
Contends New World Is Logical Place

the country's possibilities. You have
whole world there Of your own-a
world in which you could live without
aid from the outside and without ever
exhausting your home market. | can
not imagine anything which America
cannot do now that you have the
money. I have been going over all
these years to invest money. Now"
he added, with quiet laugh, II sup
pose that I shall have to so over and
sell securities"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Ban on lmmig ration Will Provide Work for All Except

pine Islands from the United States
are mainly of this sort, but immi-
grants into the United States from
Europe are not. Instead of swell
ing the numbers of employers rela-
lively to the numbers of the en-
ployed, thus creating a balance IA
vorable to the laborers and unfa-
vorable to the employers, they swell
the numbers Of the laborers rela-
lively to the number of employers,
and thus create balance favorable
to the employers and unfavorable
to the lahorers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
britain Very Far
From Being Dead

"That which does worry me not
little is the rate of taxation and the
attitude Of labor. We are but little
island-we have not the possibilities
of home development which you have
and we must trade cut in the world.
We must live on our ships and what
they carry, and if our taxes are too
heavy we may not be able to sell. And
then, again. II our working people will
not cooperate we shall be unable te
rcmake goods at price at which they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
SeIf-Interest-Arld
Ones Social Opinions

When one finds a journal like
"The Nation" expressing such unct-
uous regard for the laborer and at
the same opposing restriction of i'm
migration, one cannot help remem-
bering that "The Nation" is owned
and run by men to whom a large
supply Of cheap labor is a financial
advantage. When one finds a GER
tain type of social uplifter engaged
in carrying the culture of the we'll
to do classes to the slums and at
the same time opposing a restric-
ton of immigration, one cannot
keep down ones suspicious, espe-
cially when one wonders what these
people would find to do if laborers
should become so scarce and hard to
find as to enable all laborers to get
high wages. Please understand, the
writer does not charge any of these
people with hypocrisy. The French
have saying, "Why be a hypocrite
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Neso World Best
Field for americans

"That however which impressed us
MS a paramount consideration is tho
reastablishing Of the gold standard.
That will put an automatic check on
credit and reGstablish the internation-
al market for gold. When we had
free market it became profitable to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

upon all the masons that were there,
there would, at least locally and
temporarily, be too many hodcar-
riers. If there were more masons,
also more of the other men and
agencies necessary to utilize more
masons, then more hodcarriers
could be emploved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

when it is so easy to deceive your
SELF"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

industry, as to make them much
more numerous than they now are.
If that process could &C on unhin-
dered and without counteracting or
multiplying influences, in short time
we should have q nation so we'll
balanced as to approximate as
closely to equality as it is possible
to go without q general destructive
levelling-down revolution Of the
Russian type.
Unrestricted immigration, how
ever, counteracts the levelling-up
tendency of our popular education
and helps to nullify it's results. The
hteracy test, mild as it was, was
beyond all question the most benef-
cent, farreaching and constructive
bit Of social legislation enacted dur
ing the present administration. It
works in harmony with. and not con-
trary, to the levelling-up process of
popular education. It tends to make
ignorant and unskilled labor less
abundant and harder to find, just
as our free schools DO. 1t tends
to make intelligence and skill, rell.-
lively at least, more abundant, just
as our schools and universities do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Workers Anticipate
Difficulties ira adjustment

During the war Jobs increased
faster than men. Men were there
fore hard to find For the hardest
jobs, that is, for the army, the gov
eminent conscripted some of the
men. For the others, that is, for
industry, the old method of offer
ing reward was retained. In pro-
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-10-30
One granddaughter. \

parents One granddaughter, Miss
Mildred upper lives in Warren.
Guests from out of town attending
the reception were Nh and Mrs
Arthur Richardson. Miss Sarah f.
Richardson of Clinton Or. and Mrs.
Robinson, MI and Mrs. " w I'VE,
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bowman. Mrs.
w. S Ames of Fairfield. Charles
Wheeler of oakland; Ms Ella la}ie-
ty of Lewiston; Mr. and Mrs Sidney
Pooler and son of Canaan. Mrs II l.
Ames. {. NJ. Holt and Rev C. H. Nc
Elhiney of Skowhegan. The affair
was one of the most pleasing social
events held in town for long time
and Mr. and Mrs Walker much ap-
preciate the kindness and thoughtful
ness of their friends The family
will pass the winter either in Florida
or Massachusetts and the best wishes
of all will go with them.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-10-30

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