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Show products, that are not required for home use. at the very best of priees. Another thing that militates in our tavnr is the fact that we produce most of the raw materials needed in the great industries, and wo tvouid be able j to feed and clothe ourselves if the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts were I blockaded. The German textile workers ask that provision be made for them, in order that their industries may be ready to resume business after the war. Tt is doubtful, however, if the imperial government gov-ernment at Berlin will do anything for the German workingmen, for Belgian men, women and children have been enslaved; and, of course, get no wageB. Prisoners of war also are compelled to work, and the government is not under the necessity of paying out money for home labor. After the war, when the victims of their fprocity are unshackled and allowed to return to their homes, there may be a demand for working men of all classes in Germany. Most of her young men will have been killed or incapacitated, arrQ . the foreigners will be at work in their home countries. coun-tries. Yet, it may be that, with the foreign markets lost to the German traders and manufacturers, labor will not be so scarce, after all, and the textile and other skilled workers of Germany may not find after-the-war conditions any better than the conditions condi-tions of today. But however hard their lot under the rule of the Hohenzollerns, they will be compelled to grin and bear it, for nowhere upon the face of the earth will the Germans- of Germany find welcome for generations to come. If not in object of loathing and hatred he will at least be under suspicion because of the exposure of the methods employed during the past fifty years to secure both military and commercial domination for the kaiser and the Prussian empire. It is a cheerless cheer-less outlook for the German working-man working-man as well as all other classes.. Perhaps Per-haps the fact that there is no future for them will make the proletariat desperate des-perate .and prolong the war for a year or two. Again, it may work the other way and cause so much internal strife that the end will come some time next year. Tn any case the people of the United States will be able to stand the strain. NO FUTURE FOR THEM. It is said that four-fifths of (the textile tex-tile industries of Germany are completely com-pletely paralyzed and that the skilled workers are being compelled to accept menial employment from the, authorities at starvation wnges. Owing to the fact that Germany is shut off from the trade of the world by the fleets of the entente allies and the United States., such a condition of affairs is inevitable and is bound to become worse a; time goes ou. Tbe business of this country is gradually being put upon a strictly war basis, but skilled men are not compelled to accept menial employment at starva tion wages. On the contrary, wages have been advancing ever since the war began. Th" sea is free to our ships, and wc are able tn sell all of our |