OCR Text |
Show DISARMING PART OF THE WORLD. Theodore Roosevelt in the Metropolitan Metro-politan for October makes a most important im-portant disclosure bearing on tho subject sub-ject of the manufacture of munitions of war for export. The Colonel was privately informed by an American manufacturer of ammunition that before be-fore the war German competition was so intenso as to make his business busi-ness unprofitable. Colonel Roose- volt's statement is as followB: "A representative of a great American arms manufactory informed mo recently that they had been about to abandon their work prior to the beginning of this war. because the Germans systematically endeavored to undersell them In every country. It has been the settled policy of Germany Ger-many to drive all other countries out of the business of manufacturing arms and supplies, because, of course. If this were once substantially accomplished, accom-plished, the rest of the world would bo completely holpleBs before Germany; and Germany has made It evident that she knows no such things as international in-ternational morality and looks upon all other nations, Including the United States, merely as possible prey." The great Krupp workB at Essen were devoted to tho manufacture of guns and tho samo policy of driving out all competitors was followed by the Krupp people, assisted by the German governmont. This all tends to show how systematically the Kaiser labored to establish a mnstery over other nations, and It further proves tho German protest against the American Ameri-can manufacture and sale of munitions of war to be lacking in good faith. |