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Tlariff Preparedness
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" Is as Necessary as
War Preparedness
The great European war is bound to comeé to an end and
each day brings the end twenty-four hours nearer. That is about
all that one can say with certainty about the war itself.
But it is emphatically high time that we Americans began
to prepare for the trade warfare which the Allies and the Cen
tral Empires are planning to wage upon each other and upon us
as soon as the armies quit fighting.
It is just as well to discount a great deal of the belligerent
talk as well as a great deal of the so-called news coming from
Europe. Most of the fiery threats are pure bluff and half the
war reports, at least, are false.
Speaking in a broad sense, the military situation is practi
cally what it was last October, and will be the same this October.
Neither side is beaten or being beaten. All that is happening is
alternate losing and regaining of small pieces of ground, with
very great loss of life and waste of material.
There is no reason to believe that the end of the war will see
any great difference in the situation. The only result of each
successive month is more dead men, more wounded men, more
life-long cripples and more millions of debt upon which interest
must be paid.
In order to pay that interest the contending Governments
have already planned a trade war to follow hard on the heels of
the military struggle. And just as neither side has paid the
slightest respect to the rights of neutral nations during their mil
itary struggle, so neither side will show the slightest respect for
the natural rights of neutrals when they have started their mu.-
tual trade war upon themselves and upon every other people in
the world.
~ * 8o far as we Americans are concerned we shall be as badly
off whether the Central Empires or the Allies win, or whether
they fight to a draw, UNLESS WE PREPARE IN A BUSINESS
WAY to meet the trade war that Germany and England will
both make upon us, and ALSO PREPARE IN A NAVAL AND
MILITARY WAY to back up our trade rights and the freedom
of the seas against the future aggressions of England or Ger
many, separately or together.
We say ‘‘together’’ deliberately, for we are willing to go on
record with the prediction that Germany and England will be
in alliance within ten years—and we suspect that five years i
‘would be the better estimate. |
- The alliance between Japan and Russia threatens England {
in China and India exactly as it threatens Germany’s ambitions
and plans in Asia Minor and the Balkans, and the force of mu
tual dangers will drive Germany and England into a defensive
alliance against Japan and Russia just as surely as water in the
brook will run down hill.
In the meantime both England and Germany will continue
to strive for trade and do their level best to take away the mar.
?of the world from American business men. They will also
do their level best to TAKE OUR HOME MARKETS away from
American manufacturers.
Moreover, if we do not make much more careful and efficient
ORGANIZED PREPARATION to defend our markets and to
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line, with the result of falling prices, curtailed production, idle
mills and financial and business prostration.
- The very first thing that American business men should do
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wall of tariff protection against the cheap English and German
manufactured goods which are ready to be dumped upon Amer-.
fean markets the moment peace negotiations begin.
~ Both Germany and England are full of such goods, piled up i
%qshn the day of peace. i
X The German organization was prepared to wage war with.
out interrupting manufacturing. And England has permitted
Prance and Russia to bear practically the whole brunt of fighting
on the continent of Europe, while running her own factories and
gmw- at top speed.
~ The result is that there are, in England and in Germany,
‘ goods lying ready for shipment to America, to the
5 of over two thousand millions of dollars.
The Germans have been unable to ship at all to our markets,
the English have been hindered by the excessive freight
due to war use of so much shipping, from sending us more
#han a fraction of their cheap labor goods. 1
% But sea freight will be as cheap as dirt as soon as war makes
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‘Will ruin our own bome manufacturers unless Congress builds a
fariff protection dyke against the foreign flood BEFORE it be.
§ins 1o flow Lo our shores.
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' Why the Guardsmen Are at the Border
NE HUNDRED AND SIX-
O TY-FOUR THOUSAND
National Guardsmen were
included in the President's call
for mobilization, issued on June
19, six weeks ago. On July 26,
more than five weeks after the
call, there were of this 164,000
men 105,168 at the border on duty
and 59,204 waiting in their State
camps for equipment so they ;
would be prepared for actual
service. That is, more than one
third of the guardsmen called to
the colors were unable to respond
becaywe they were not fitted out
for duty—and the National Guard
is supposed to be the nation's
second line of defense, organized
under the active supervision of
officers of the regular army.
That is the situation with the
Mexican border call still urging
toward the front. Had the call
been to meet a foreign foe assall
ing our Inadequately defended
coasts with invasion there could
have happened no miracle that
would have supplied the equip
ment which was not available for
the National Guard when the
border call came.
In view of the condition of the
National Guard and of the im
portance of that body, the fol
lowing article by Brigadier Gen
eral J. Parker, U. & A, com
manding the Brownaville (Texas)
military district, written for “The
- First lliinols Cavalryman” the
officlal weekly paper of that regi
ment, Is unusually Interesting.
The article follows:
By GENERAL J. PARKER, U. 8. A,
T HE question is now being
asked by many men of the
State troops here in camp “what
are we here for™ It is well that
an answer be made to this gques
tion and it be kept in mind by
all. The Government and the
people of the United States cer
tinly appreciate the sacrifices
that are being made by the oM.
cors and men of the State troops
in performing this service.
They bave left their homes and
families, they have left important
positions. They have come to a
bot and semewhat disagresabls
climate But they should feel that
what they are doing Is not being
done In valn, that they are ren-
Gering to this country a wonder
ful service, that they should be
thanked by the people of the
Unlied States for patriotic service
dons for the country, MWhat is
Copyright, 1916, Internatiorel News Berflc.‘.
this service? In the first place,
this country was -and is still
threatened by war. The condi
tions on the other side of the Rio
Grande are worse than they have
ever been before. Villa is still at
large. He is llkely to make an
other rald. The temper of the
American people becomes more
and more impatient.
The people are reallzing that
the prestige of the country is suf
fering. Unforeseen situations are
constantly recurring and some of
Best Stories of the Week
Had Nothing on Him.
AN anaemic elderiy woman, who looked as if she might have as much
maternal affection as an incubator, sized up & broadsehouldered
Cockney who was idly looking into & window on the Strand, and in a
Fasping volce sald to him:
“My good man, why aren't you In the trenches? Aren't you willing
to do anything for your country ™
Turning around slowly, he looked at her a second and replied cone
temptuously: ‘“Move on, you slacker! Where's your war baby!”
The Retort Courteous.
AN oM darky In Richmond was desirous of Joining a fashionable city
church, and the minister, knowing it was hardly the thing to do and
Bot wanting to hurt the old chap's feelings, told him to go home and
Pray over it
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“Well, what do you think of it by this time™ asked the preacher,
“Well, sub,” replied the darky, “1 prayed an’' prayed an’' de Koot
Lawd, He says to me, ‘Richard, 1 wouldn't bother mah head about dat no
mo'. T've been tryin' to git into dat church mahse'f for de las’ twenty
yeabs an’ | ain't had so luek at all’ ™
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during some repairs He bhad just applled the handle to the tap and
begun turning when s somewhat unsteady hand was placed on his shoul
der, and he was confronted by & man in evening clothes, who, judging by
his tone and manner, had been imbSing much too freely,
“Ma, ba!® he cried, with a gleam of satisfaction In his eye. “So I've
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the situations may demand ac
tion.
It is, therefore, apparent that
this force should become pre
pared, that the ofMicers and men
£hould be fully tyained. This can
only be accomplished by long'
hours of drill each day and by
enthuslastic work,
Second—lt is desired to exercise
diplomatic pressure and the ex
istence of a large armed force is
necessary. It goes without say
‘ng that this armed force should
be well trained and fit for fight
ing. :
The very fact that the weather
is hot or wet, that the camps are
dusty or muddy, prepares the
troops for the inevitable condi
tions of a campalgn and the
hardships that the troops may
have to undergo.
Third—We are here because
this is the greatest step toward
preparedness the United Sum
has ever taken. We are training
men, and especlally officers, for
‘future wars. In case of any great
war we will need an immense
army of milllons of fighting men,
and to train them we will need
tens of thousands of officers and
noncommissioned officers as drill
masters,
The National Guard Is a school
for officers of volunteers or of our
| conscript army. It is to the Na
tional Guard largely that we
must look for the men with mili
tary training who are to whip
our millions of conscripts Into
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‘ This concentration on the Mex
~ lean border, therefore, is a great
school of military training.
The young men that we see here
In the ranks are to be future
generals of the army. It is easy
to find men to work In factories
= or on rallroads or on automo
biles in time of war, but difMecult
to find men who will go on the
firing lines. This is the stuff that
We are developing here,
We hear much about “military
training camps™ for students, for
business men, etc. It should be
impressed upon you all that this
is far better than any such traln
ing camp and it should be the aim
of every officer to use his efforts
to make the method of training
quite as good or better than those
exercised in the short period of
training camps.
This Is & training camp, but a
training camp that will accom
plish results. Men who graduate
from this training camp should
be soldiers, not amateurs,
It Is not improbable that a
period will be designated by the
Government when this shall cease,
but until that time shall come it
is our duty to take full advan
tage of the wonderful oppor
tunity that we have here * It
thould be considered a special
privilege to serve In this camp,
1o take part in this work of prep
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THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening
A Week-End Clearing House for Notes of Men and Affairs
CHEAP CRITICISM. :
A contemporary—without say
. ing which one of the three or four
throughout the State given to that
sort of thing—in an issue of a
day or so ago said this:
The Atlanta papers are happy
once more. They've got another
murder case to work on.
The statement was designed to
be funny, of course. It was
thought to carry some sort of
point that might be urged to At
lanta's diecredit. It was calcu
lated ‘to evidence keen intelli
gence anl smartness with respect
to Atlanta's faults and short
comings. .
As a matter of fact, it was
merely cheap, flippant and meanly
unkind. :
It referred to one of the most
distressing and heartrending
tragedies Atlanta ever has known
—a tragedy so sadly and so un
fortunately mixed with mystery
that the newspapers of the eity,
and scores of private citizens,
have unstintedly put all their
forces at work, that they might
in any way help to solve the same.
It is inconceivable that any hu
man being in Atlanta or any
newspaper could find any meas
ure of happiness whatever in so
melancholy an occurrence—a
murder that removed from the
walks of everyvday life hereabout
one of the brightest and most
promising lads ever born in the
city.
Atlanta is a great municipality.
Large events are o! evervday oc
currence. Her papers are taxed
to carry in detail the record of so
) much as one day’s history—with
all of its sunshine and shadow, its
Joys and miseries, its successes
and disappointments, its bright
ners and gloom. Atlanta and her
newspapers are far happier in
considering the pleasant things
than they can be in considering
the unpleasant.
Atlanta prefers to rejolce with
the parents of a new born babe
rather than to sorrow with a
broken-hearted family beside the
bier of some loved one.
But Atlanta, like all communi
tics, great or small, must do both.
Why should any person think
or suggest that even ore Atlan
tan finds happiness or satisfac
tion In the tragic taking away of
a youth so full of the joy of life
and the worthiness of living as
was young John Wurm?
There is not a newspaper in
Atlanta that does not find infi
nitely more pleasure in chroni
cling the gladness of the day than
the despair thereof.
THE SLIDE TROMBONE.
A writer In a newspaper up
East waxes happy in contempla
. tlon of “the passing of the slide
trombone.” He has kept accu
rate tab—so he says—on the
brass bands he has met of late,
and he states whereas the slide
trombone used to be an Invariable
attachment thereof, that now
adays it is rare to see one.
Maybe this is so—but why
-hould one wax giad because
it is?
For my part, I regard the pass
ing of the slide trombone as a dis
tinct evidence of brass bn:&'de
generacy and as further E of
the fact that musiclans, ltke other
folk, are given nowadays far too
much to cutting across lots to
save time than they are to hold
ing fast to the things that make
life picturesque.
Nothing in my boyhood days do
T recall with more pleasure than
the wonderful gyrations of the
slide trombone plavers in the
brass bands that used to come all
too Infrequentiy my way.
The cornet was to my young
eyes a thing of beauty and a joy
forever, and the vastness and
huge possibilities of the mam
moth bass horn never falled both
' to arrest my attention and stir
. my imagination.
| But these were small mfi;to«-
. indeed when set beside the slide
~ trombone as something to interest
and mystify,
The fact that this wonderful
instrument had no funny little
Jiggers to be pressed and joggled
up and down under the fingers
when sudden changes of note or
:‘oy-or whatever it was—was de
red, was most engagingly un
usual. The trombone manipulator
then had truly to move In mys
terious ways his wonders to per
-1 used to think that If T migh!
become an expert slide trombone
player thers still might be other
worlds to eonquer, but they also
might be of a kind that didn't
amount to mnch.
The trombone still cuts mueh
fee in the band, 1 am informed,
but it is of the valve persuasion.—
whatever that is—and not the
slide variety, It gets results, but
not in the old and fascinating
wWay. It is easier on the opera
tor, ‘::c' .;:. one-half so t:m«-
“h o m, LI T
rifices to expediency the ane
clent and amazing acrobatic agil.
u’mufim 1o get away with the
It saves time-—but it smoth.
ers joy.
I may be able to reconcile my
eelf 10 the mfln of the old slide
trombone, 1 shall never find
In such A cirfumstance any de
gree of real happiness
A TEMPERANCE PROBLEM,
| One of the significant results of
Investigations By the Government
of late has been the discovery of
& marked decrease In beer con
sumption and & marked increase
of whisky within
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This artice, be it said In
By James B. Nevin.
the beginning, is NOT designag
to be an argument, pro or con,
in re prohibition. It merely seeky
to set forth some things demon.-
strated in recent interna] reve
nue reports, which are glving
students of temperance some con
‘ cern.
Personally, the writer believes
f that eventually the liquor prob
| lem will be solved wisely—also hg
believes that a great net gooq
has come of prohibition move
ments to date, not unmixeq of
evil, however.
Statistics gathered by the Gov
ernment show that the consump
tion of whisky for the year end.
ing June 30 increased 10,000,000
rallons over the year before, hut
that the consumption of beer fel]
off 60,000,000 gallons. That is to
say, for every gallon or whisky
increase, there was a decrease of
six gallons of beer. ~ Figured far
ther, it shows that for every bot
tle of beer Jecrease, there has
been an increase of about three
ounces of whisky. In other words,
for every eliminated bottle of
beer, there have been supplied to
take its place some three drinks
of whisky, allowing one ounce to
a drink.
Stutlents of conditions believa
that this result has been brought
about in part because prohibition
laws Invariahly seem to decrease
beer consumption in the territory
affected—all things considered,
both its legal and illegal sale—
while they may or may not de
crease the sale of whisky, as
broadly considered,.
. Beer is bulky and difficult for
“bootleggers” to handle—a half
pint of whisky, however, can be
peddled from hip-pocket to hip
pocket,
Beer can not well be smuggled
in any appreciable quantity into
progcribed territory, whereas
whigky can. Every person who
comes Into “dry” territory can, it
he be s 0 minded, carry in his
valise from one to four quarts of
whisky, without fear of molesta
tion or discovery. He can not
bring more than half a dozen or
80 bottles of beer.
Temperance advocates will not
contend that their cause has
gained anything much, if it be
discovered that through prohi
bitlon laws the sale of beer has
been decreased only at the price
of an over-corresponding increas
ed sale of whisky. .
The problem they now are
studying is how to bring the
whisky consumption down ta
where they think it should be, as
a result of these laws, without at
the same time putting back the
consumption of beer to erstwhile
normal.
As between beer and whisky
even though both may be voted
evil, there are few who will not
Agree that a hottle of beer is a
less harmful thing to drink than
three one-ounce drinks of whisky.
THE DEUTSCHLAND.
The Germdn merchant subma
rine Deutschland slipped quletly
out of Chesapeake Bay a few
days ago, safely passed the
prowling and Erowling British
warships on the lookout for her—
and now so far as.we know, is
happy on her way back home,
And, almost without exception,
the people of this land are glad
of it—which 1s rather remarkable,
on the surface of thing, too, as
there admittedly fs a preponder
ance of sympathy for the Allles
as against Germany, in the pres
ent terrible struggle for mastery
of Europe.
There lis something about the
exploit of the Deutschland that
lifts it far out of the ordinary and
makes her an object of attention
lwc-ll removed from partisan feel
ng.
There was something so Jfluclly
and so game about the con uet of
her crew—and there was some
thing »o appealing In the modesty
of her captain after she had land
ed, snug and secure from her
underseas voyage.
And so—lnstantly the great
American glad hand went out to
her wallors in congratulation and
approval—and ungrudgingly was
sounded universal applause for
the wonderful resourcefulness of
A people that made such an ex
ploit possible,
The reason why the peopls of
this land were glad to ses the
Deutschland get anL on her
,ounol back home, because
most Americans are good ogru.
whatever their feelings may be on
occasions or however may
become excited tem this
waAy and that
The helning hand KOs out mors
#peedily and more generously in
these dld United States than it
does m{mn else In the world
The fellow who astands the
Ereatest chance to lose—if he be
fair and square and on the level
in his dealings—lnvariably s the
au we most Incline to hope will
n,
The big fellows we leave to
take care of themselves, but the
little ones we back up with our
nmm‘nu; always, lJ with our
muscie, If necessary,
The Dnmmg is a INttle
Mhing-a tiny, fragile, almost
mu»bdk:o m'fl ’c‘m can ::'!
cut much figure In the great
~but she ean and does illustrate
the manliness, the courage and
the | uity of a t peopla,
ina m n.C. "fi‘ WAy,
Everybody ’.‘"‘
wants the Deutschlgnd to make
m-h and that
it make m Aifference
the war, but it will
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