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WITHOUT THIS WALL—TROUBLE AHEAD.
The peace rainbow is in the sky. Let us hope that as the first
rainbow meant no more flood covering the earth, so this peace
rainbow will mean no more horrible war devastating the world.
The United States welcomes peace, and should think earnest
ly of what is going to happen AFTER PEACE.
The most important thing of all is shown in this picture—a
tariff wall to protect the United States from the flood of competi.
tion that will come in as soon as the war ends.
Millions of men will be released from the armies, compelled
to work for what they can get—AND AT ONCE.
We must take care that millions of men are not RELEASED
FROM THEIR JOBS HERE IN AMERICA by the competition
that will come from Europe after this war.
The Secretary of the Navy makes an announcement interest
ing to employers and workmen and to every citizen, an announce
ment most amazing, and this is it:
At this moment, with the war going on, but with peace in
sight, the ammunition factories of England are bidding for the
business of the United States Government and actually UNDER.
BID ALL OF OUR FACTORIES IN AMERICA.
Here is the disptach that tells the story: '
Washington.—The opening of bids for armor-pierc
ing shells by the Navy Department brought out the sur
prising fact that British ordnance companies, despite
the war, can provide the projectiles 35 to 40 per cent
cheaper than any of the American steel companies,
Hadfields, Ltd., of England, agreed to supply 3,000 16-
inch projectiles in sixteen months at $513 each, duty
paid. The Bethlehem Steel Company wants $775 each
to provide 4,000 in thirty-six months, while the price
from the Midvale Steel Company was S9OO each for
1,000 in twenty-four m’nths.
For 14-nich shells Hadfields, Ltd., offer a price of
$356 each for 4,500, which they agree to deliver in
eleven months. The Midvale Steel Company wants
$550 each for 5,600 shells, to be delivered in thirty
months, while the Crucible Steel Company asks
$543.50 each for 2,000 deliverable in thirty-four
months,
Secretary Daniels was so struck with the differ
ence in price that he emphasized it in the press notice
given out by the Navy Department. e is at a loss to
understand why the American prices are so much in
excess. Mr. Daniels said the Hadfields company's offer
would be considered in awarding contracts.
Secretary Daniels may well be ‘‘struck with the difference
in price.”” Workmen getting high wages in this country, em.
ployers who know what free trade competition means, may also
be “‘struck’’ by the facts.
Here is an English concern offering to supply the United
States with shells for its cannon, and, in spite of war abroad, of.
sering prices with which Americats can not compete.
England would deliver the goods in sixteen months for five
hundred and thirteen dollars each.
The great American Bethlehem Steel Company asks seven
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THE HOME PAPER
To President Woodrow Wilson:
We love peace and are content to dwell in
fellowship with all nations. So we are peculiar
ly chosen, as it were by a Providence, to speak,
in our great seat of righteousness, power and |
dominion, the counsel of peace and good will to
our distressed brothers in Europe.
Mr. President, let us speak along with you
that counsel.
And may God speed the message of com
passion and friendliness and mercy and peace
| straight to the hearts of the rulers in whose '
hands lie trembling the lives of millions, the §
destinies of nations and the fate of the white ,
man, and all the achievements and monuments :
of His spl(ndid and wonderful civilization! 3
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hundred and seventy-five dollars each and requires thirty-six
months’ time. v
And the big Midvale Steel Company asks NINE HUNDRED
DOLLARS EACH and requires twenty-four months’ time.
What does this mean? It means, of course, that the work
ers in America are getting very\much higher wages than the
workers in England, and also that those whose capital is invested
in manufacturing here are getting much bigger returns than cap
italists investing in England.
At a dinner given recently in his honor, Mr. Schwab, of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, announced that he paid every one of
his employees, men and women, an average of almost a hundred
dollars a month. This is more than DOUBLE what the same em.
ployees would get in Europe.
No wonder Europe can undersell us, event now in war time.
Who could have believed a few weeks ago that today the'
Secretary of the Navy would be announcing that ammunition
makers in England were competing for the business of the Unit
ed States and cutting almost one-half below the price of the
American manufacturer, which means the AMERICAN WORK.
MAN?
This is a serious matter for every man interested in the pros
perity of this country.
Peace must come. It will mean a blessing for Europe, it
must not be allowed to mean hard times and impossible competi.
tion for the United States. ”
We rejoice to see the English ammunition factories produc
ing more than they can use—FOß THAT MEANS THAT THOSE
FACTORIES AND THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING
THEM REALIZE THAT PEACE IS HERE.
But from the point of view of the American workman, of
American prosperity, this announcement of Secretary Daniels
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If the steel business of England can underbid us forty per
cent now, with war on, what will the underbidding be WHEN
ALL THE GREAT IRON INDUSTRIES OF FRANCE AND
ENGLAND AND GERMANY BEGIN COMPETING FOR THE
TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES"
We need a tariff, adequate protection for workers and busi.
ness men, and we should have it.
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One Small Nation Hitherto
Overlooked
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We quote from the reply of the Alljes to the Central Pow.
ers:
"“Omnee again the Allies declare that no peace is poss!
ble no long as they have not secured the recognition AP
pnnmplo of nationalities and of the free existence of small
States.”’ ,
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tinne ta averlant Traland Any of the Allies %o con.