Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-09 | Page 8 | Another Lesson from the War

Another Lesson From the War Because we can grow all the wheat we need and mine our own c coal cl al and iron ore and dig gol gold and silver for coin we had about forgotten forgotten for for- gotten a certain interdependence which exists between th the natio nations s. s i i But the war taught us Now we realize our need of a navy navy t tl the he east as o of us and a navy to the west and of merchant t ships to I carry our extra products to nations which will pay us for them I S At present we have to hire our our c carrying done s for u us although up to 1860 we were able to do 80 per cent of it ourselves i r are paying freights which are sometimes 1000 times S Wan in jn normal times Even ve before the war var wi WC we were were paying I b between and annually to o f foreign reign ship owners paying paying paying profit profi t to foreign capital taI taI- and to fore foreign la lar labor r r instead of to our ur own S SS S At the outbreak of the war we had only six American owned bottoms carrying good goods back and forth on the Atlantic while one 1 corporation ha had hada a fleet of ships When the war Avar broke S foreign merchant ships were either appropriated for military purposes pur pur- S ri roses poses ses or interned interned and and American commerce was Avas for a time paralyzed We V c could neither buy nor or sell abroad When commerce resumed half the profits were tak taken nin in freight charges by foreign ship owners ft The lesson ought to be clear t to Uncle Sams Sam's children S p But ut like many another r national problem the average m mar man n nIa Ia asses I Jes this one up as being too intricate to bother about Titus Thus we wc 1 my get left again in the position of a merchant with v th a a fine stock o of S g goods os but no delivery s system stem K Put so the lack of a merchant marine is clearly lea ly everybody's everybody i S s sSi problem Si ft P Perhaps you never saw the he o ocean ea N Nevertheless whether yo you 1 1 work ork 1 in a mill or on a farm in a bank or on a railroad this question of national o al welfare is one which you must help to solveS solve S f. f L We may perfect the most splendid plan for preparedness an and I IL nay a tremendous sum for it and y yet t spoil it all for the lack of if a aI I IS I merchant erchant marine S S H li t S S