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Show "i . . j 7 TiKlNG THE PROFITS OUT OF WAR a !" rdlv had the United States declared neutrality before t chants dealing in war goods began to complain. To :4 1 restrictions of our government the exporters be-: be-: minging sales to Italy on the basis of cash on the .'hebuver to arrange the transportation of the ship- '" At the same time New York banking institutions v ;''!e(j the flow of American credits, but Italy and Eth-Ji Eth-Ji rill likelv get into the back doors of some big banks ii '."e for loans in a way that will permit payments 10 Merican goods without having the credits or the cur- 'nixed up in overseas financing. Vready some of the metropolitan press is complaining .'.ju American doctrine of the freedom of the seas for ? has been abandoned. And there is agrowing clam-j clam-j "vnst the ultimatum that Americans cannot travel on a ".hips except at their own risk. That is because the out of war are small compared to what they ought to Same Thing in 1914 i Jlile the new law placed an embargo on shipments of -; ammunition, and implements of war," we are re-by re-by that wise chairman of the War Industries Board, Z 'rd jl. Baruch, that there is no such thing as non-war "ials. He says that 'fighting countries can do without T5 -35 and machine guns quicker than without wheat and -goods and clothing," and in his solemn tones he adds iyou really want to be neutral, you have to go all the in Z ;t is apparent to the best informed observers in the ' :ial Capital that there is bound to develop very speed-, speed-, great sentiment to fill European war orders which ', iieady of sufficient volume to be wanted by manufac- ;i and producers. "Why shouldn't we have the trade" jj iears. Or, why not have the profits out of war! That dp elv to become a burning issue and one not easily dis- ty But it is of recent history that the Allies bought and ivi in advance for American products and shipped them 3 ora boats to Europe at the beginning of the great American shipping interests wanted their profits and d :an. Americans "just had to" travel on foreign ships & ie German submarines got them when they were a :? on the Lusitania. The Question of Neutrality "airing the profits out of war admittedly means a big - ii dollars and cents to business and financial interests -e United States. Under the act of Congress and the am nations of the President we are starting in to take ss, figuring that such a course will keep impetuous - a and the war spirit subdued so that we will not enter sent and the "next war." If we have intestinal for- to stock by the present program we will not be drawn lis European mess. It looks easy right now, but the - the Italian-Ethiopia war continues, even though it j at spread, the harder it will be to keep down the war And that fact, even though obscure right now, must ; minimized if we are to keep out of war. |