Show r- r I What W Is Nomal ls Normal Trade Tiie Tho government having haying failed in th the scheme of its ambassador to tie up our factories by strikes and riots now renews its it protest against the sale Hale of arms and munitions munitions muni muni- mum mum- tion to tc St such ch nations as as are arc in position to receive them They say they the would not object to a normal trade in ILL military supplies but do object to the sale of abnormal quantities What i is a trade in arms armR and find munitions 1 If this means that we can sell only what we would find a market for in ill iii time of peace then we can R sell 11 only when there is no market marlet IT MEANS THAT WE CANNOT HELP OUT THE UNPREPARED PARED NATION SUDDENLY ATTACKED NOR BUY IN ABNORMAL AB NORMAL QUANTITIES WHEN WE ARE SUDDENLY A. A AT TACKED Secretary Lansing will ivill hardly feel called upon to reply to this The rue normal sale of these things is the sale of enough to toJ J supply the market when there is a market in market in war time In them he meantime the central empires keep on on- offering on-offering offering prices f for r cotton to tobe be bought in America merica And cotton is the the most most important ammunition in the war For every company of men m in the Germanic armies there isan san an ammunition ion l train can vino three t bree bales of cotton coton in the form of gun cotton and charges of one of those centimeter 42 takes a a. a bale hale of cotton COTTON lS 8 S AS' AS l AMMUNITION AS 1 jiRINE t I German Germany y now now cout contemplates a drive on Egypt for the purpose purpose pmj prin paly obtaining of of- Egyptian cotton c with which to make nitrocellulose which cellulose which is gun cotton otton In Iu other words the Ger- Ger mani mam empires are ae making bids for ammunition and beams be- be ams gre we are arH soiling selling ammunition to her foes foes which is all aU right if she she- J make us isten to her argument |