| Show I t Let us have havo faith that right makes might andin and rud f in that tha faith let us MS to the en end dare to do our duty II III I I as we va understand it Lincoln Increasing the Burden VAT HA HATE TER else is indicated in the sinking of the tile W WHATEVER y V German Germun fleet one tiling thing is IS made clear and that is s that hat the German st sense nse of honor is unchanged The reforms reforms re rc- re- re f forms which the world worl looked for lor with the of tile the kaiser and his r regime irne arc nrc missing and we are arc bOU bound bouni f to admit t that German treachery is is the same today as asir it ir was when the ilic neutrality of Belgium was so shamefully shame shame- fully violated The German officers and sailors in charge of the thc ships hips which were interned at Scapa Flow have haye settled One ne of the tile questions which was vexing the allies The I disposition of or at least part of the German fleet is fully fuBy determined by hy the last minute treachery of pf the German o officers and sailors Inasmuch as ns the sinking is in conformity conformity con COIl to plans discussed by the allies themselves it itis is doubtful if there win will be any auy universal grieving over the loss N Nevertheless the affair adds s complications to existing existing existing exist exist- ing relations among the allies France has opposed plans to sink the German fleet at sea Naturally Naturally ally she is going to demand a full accounting as Great Britain is clearly responsible for the tile property entrusted to her keeping The Tile Germans in the last hour of defeat have thrown another bomb into the peace conference Indications arc are that the sinking was ordered from Germany and is not the unofficial treachery of The sail suil- ors Establishment of this assertion as a a. pos positive fact would fail to bring any benefits to he lie German people As a matter of fact it is another mother German Gennan mistake wl which ch has the tendency to make the German road harder The attempt to thwart the will of the allies can only serveto serve to cryst crystallize allied determination to make German Germany u harmless The l least t the display of 1 can d do doi dol i 1 J l is to bring an end to the haggling with Germany which has as already proceeded proceeded t to o far in the Paris conference ii z J a l' l Reviving o the Tori f U T UDER TENDER DER the do doctrine that nothing is settled until it r. r is settled right the tile worn time tariff question looms r large upon the pol political horizon The war has been a potent reminder of how far afield the Democrats had strayed from the tile path of American interests and sound national polity With the probable coming of peace pence the righteous and necessary protection tt tu home borne industry indus indus- 0 try Ary assumes a new significance It comes back to us like the almost forgotten otten memory of wood violets and apple blossoms The statesmen of our country are sniffing the odor and are remembering that the tariff was a bi big revenue producer that it made foreign nations pa pay part of the expenses of or the tile government and that it t protected the American workman from the competition of cheaply paid foreign labor It is announced by hy Republican l leaders in Con Congress ess that a bill for a protective tariff will win be one of the most important things to be brought 9 before the present Congress Indeed congressmen of both parties eastern trade journals mn zincs and many of the big dailies are beginning lo fo realize the timely timey advantages ad of putting a r new new tariff law upon the books of the nation Perhaps the Vio best illustration of the need of the hour lies in the tile consideration of what Japan will do doto to us if we ve e muddle I 1 along lon as we vo are arc muddling Figures compiled by the Japanese department of fin finance give gie the yearly early wage of a Japanese male farm laborer as about G and 1 of a female farm laborer 1525 shoemakers and blacksmiths earn 38 33 cents a day paperhangers and c. b cabinetmakers 40 cents carpenters 43 cents and bricklayers 54 5 cents s The The hour eight day in Japan is an au ri unsung son song The war has cost Japan less both oth in m men u and money than other OilIer any belligerent She stands to gain tain in more as ns the result of the war var Its Jis already announced that that J Japan is beginning to make J inroads upon un o bur r trade She has been active while hile we wo have been nert She works while we sleep p. p She has hns built up up ad reat merchant marine and is prepared prepared pre pre- pared to flood our markets with her goods Tills This is but hut one of the object before the people There are arc others equally Is Js it l wonder the tariff question is comin coming to the front Is it any wonder the press of the file country Coun country try is 1 t beginning to say as one jurnal puts it A tariff designed de tie- signed to protect all our workers from the products of or Japanese e or other poorly paid labor should not be he de tic bat bated ns as a n political issue It is American all the way through H tea ta fe Advancing Copper CopperT T advices from Dost Boston n are favorable to tho the i copper outlook Tile The United States government stock l of f P nA pounds s t taken poun en over by the producers producers pro- pro teen leen months under the a agreement giving ivinS tile the Producer fit fit- to tp complete the transaction is likely now to bo be liquidated in in four months The fhe clearing up this government stock 0 iS being n rapidly ST accomplished fhe stock of C copper PCr in England and d France particularly that in in n the shape of wire bars is gradually being heing reduced it t is is reported The Thc official statement of Eni lish ish st stocks as of Juno Junc Engish Eng Eng- English 1 h 1 Wa n a further reduction of t tons ns and a advices 1 from froni France Franco state that con- con there have taken large quantities of the metal from froni the government stocks The French consuls have have also been buyers buyer in in the American consumers y market this his week and nd tho opinion of those well veil informed is that from now on the Fren French h consumers will have to look Jook to this country in in Large degree lc for their supply of from rom month to month instead d of ino copper Vi French h government t stock stock which has becIl depending in process oeL on on the i of liquidation n. n sin since since e the armistice It is Z reported d that Japan too has bC become a big buyer buy buy- in inthe the American mark market t for tox C er in n the rea reason that s sh she e finds ind l it cJ cheaper ca r to buy here r than to produce it at it hume it It is no rio lon longer cr profitable for th the tho Japanese to work some is of their old mines and others were gouged g in in taking taking tak tak- ing lug advantage tul of oc the hi high h war prices to such an nn extent that they aro are now out of business s. s Japan is now branching branch branch- ing lug out for a share of the worlds world's trade in in manufactured be counted 1 on as a copper and brass and can regular buyer of American A copper ha having v ng increased her facilities for manufacturing during the war V While le the tho chief demand for copper nt at present both hoth IV at home and abroad is for conversion into wire when the period of reconstruction construction o of devastated de areas arcas in in France and Belgium arrives es and when lIen manufacturing plants set out to supply the tile demand of the world for dynamos and motors IBId and castings S and tanks and utensils I and jewelry and art works and ancl when the mints of the all of which be lIe ex- ex nations lagin to coin again all may pe peeled led wit within hin a comparatively ely brief season after peace r I little doubt douht hut but is there is is- IS' IS permanently established I that that copper will lid command a puce JI ce attained prior prior to the I armistice At least llast in in this copper producing country such is IS the dominant hope J t I P I I I Glass II Houses HousesIT I IT T is reported from Washington ton that administration leaders propose to assail senators who ask for change change- and reservations in in the len league of nations covenant as pro pro pro-c To this threat the New York Tribune replies re- re plies with fine sarcasm Imagine Senator Hitchcock not long ago o pushing pushing push push- in ing a n. r solution resolution for an flIt embargo on shipments to the allies posing poing as uS the tile champion German anti an and questioning ques the patriotism of men with the records of Senators Lodge ar and d Knox As the debate waxes warmer wo may expect that flint other records may be pulled It was us not so very ery long 1 ago O that the tile President himself was declaiming against entering the tile war with Germany On February 1 1916 in one of those fervid addresses afterwards in that same year 31 quoted as evidence that Il he kept us out of w war var r the President said There are arc actually men in America who arc are preaching war var who are arc preaching the duty luty of or the United States Slates to do what it never would before seek eek entanglement lement in the controversies which have arisen on the tire ot other oilier side of the water ater abandon its habitual and traditional policy and deliberately engage in the conflict which is is now engulfing rest of the tile world 1 J do not know what the standard staniard of citIzenship of these gentlemen In may be Ie I only know that I for one cannot subscribe to those sentiments And this statement an and many others others- others others-of of f similar na- na true were true were made after Germany German had attacked American citizens had sunk American sl ships filled our land with spies and secret agents and virtually had made war upon us ns Yet Yat there is is no disposition to assail the President as pro Have the administration leaders lost host their heads 7 fe r te fe Baker wants men for s service on the Mexican border Its It's all an right with us ns if it it its it's s' s sall all right with the league f fa The bootleggers gers union seems to have ha a stronger pull puB with the President than the prohibitionists Jn r n |
