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Show chemical factories; tilo paper mills an.l 1073 machine factories.' That looks like a serious flaw, but when Germany is defeated the Russians will he free. They are. nerving Germany now because they must. Once they aro free from Prussian force they will aid the allies if the allies are circumspect. The Russians hate the Prussians, ami every day adds to the hatred. FORCE WITHOUT LIMIT. President Wilson has outlined two course!) of action to bring Germany down to defeat. One course has been followed by the entonte belligerents to the limit of thoir power. Tho other cannot can-not be followed in its full application until aftor tho war, but the time, we believe, has arrived when all possible preparations should be mado to carry I out both plans to completo success. The president's two courses are sufficiently suf-ficiently described in his own phrases 'Force without stint ar limit," and ' ' shut out from the friendly intercourse of nations. " All the belligerents are exerting the last ounce of their strength to employ "force without stint or limit, ' but the entente powers still have many things , to say and to do in making arrange-meuts arrange-meuts to shut out -Germany and her allies from the friendly intercourse of nations. First of all, would it. not be timely and effective to announce a definite j programmo? Germany has set the example ex-ample of increasing its pence demands each time it has conducted a now military mili-tary ounpaign. The allies have beon warned that unless they accept the Prussian peace offer they must not ex-poct ex-poct such favorable terms tho next time an offer is made. The allies might adopt the same course with, success. Senator Owen has suggested that an economic boycott be 111 employed during and after the war, but his suggestions aro still in the academic stage. To give them force and effect, congress might begin by setting a tiruo limit within which Germany must make peace. Certain punishments should be set forth as penalties for refusing the allied terms Within tho specified time. After a refusal a new time limit should In' fixed and increased penalties established. estab-lished. One suggestion is that German ships be excluded from American harbors and from the Panama canal for one year after the war. That might serve as a beginning. The next act of congress might increase the penalty period to two years. But to make the act gonuinoly effective, all of the entente belligerents and we must remember that this class includes South American countries should tako co-ordinate action. Each nation fhould provide tho same scries of penalties for the same periods. After the war Germany will be denuded de-nuded of many raw materials. Tho economic blockade has not accomplished its object during tho war, but it is certain cer-tain that it has reduced the German supply of raw materials to such a state that when the conflict ends the factories fac-tories of Germany will bo unable to re-sumo re-sumo work unless they are assured of an adequate supply. Tn our country today to-day German agents are trying to eon-tract eon-tract for raw materials to be used after tho war. As a warning to Germany an embargo could be placed on the shipments ship-ments of such materials for a period of three or five years, and penalties applied ap-plied to any neutral nations sending our raw materials into Germany. Great Britain and France entered into a somewhat similar agreement earfy in tho war, but they wero not strong enough to enforce it. Now that the United States is in the I war, now that a number of South American Ameri-can countries have declared a state of war with Germany, while other countries coun-tries have expressed themselves as supporting sup-porting the allies, such an economic boycott boy-cott could be made to work. Instead of confining themselves to a discussion of the possibilities, the entente en-tente nations should get together in a specific pronunciamento, in which Germany Ger-many should be told just what to expect ex-pect for every six months that ?he continues con-tinues the war. There is one weak point in the plan Russia. The peace treaty between Russia and Germany places at the disposal of Gor-f Gor-f many 36,000.000 Russians and .".00.000 square miles of territory. :vl per cent of the total Russian area: 13,850 miles of railways; ''.' per cent of Russia"s iron produOtdoa; 80 per cent of her coal pro-doction; pro-doction; -OS sugar refineries; 01$ tex-lilr tex-lilr factories; "TI breweries: 139 tn-baeee tn-baeee factories; iK" distilleries: 844 I |