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Show WAR DISCUSSED BY A PROMINENT HT WEBER CLUB 'TVe are now virtually at war with Germany and there is no longer any reason to doubt that 1 his condition will be actual within a very short period of 1 limp." was the declaration of Herbert F DeBower. vice president of the Alexander Al-exander Hamilton institute, at the Weber We-ber club. Continuing, he predicled that Germany would be a republic and said .that the revolt was already taking root as the entente allies would never make peace with the house of Hohenzollern. "When the war ends" the visitor also predicted, "there will be many other republics on foreign shores." Mr. DeBower is making a tour of the west in the interests of the Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton institute of New York to ascertain the sentiment of business men with regard to business and industrial in-dustrial affairs under present conditions. condi-tions. He is a prominent lawyer of New York, specializing on commercial I questions, and for a number of years was a special lecturer at the New York School of Commerce. His visit lo Og den was a.t the invitation of President George W. Goddard of the Ogden branch of the Utah Manufacturers' association as-sociation and he addressed a large assembly as-sembly of manufacturers and business men at a luncheon held in the Weber club at noon. The subject of the ad-J ad-J dress was "America's opportunities f and responsibilities. After stating the purpose of his present pres-ent tour. Mr. DeBower said, in part: "Conditions are. and have been for many months, continually and rapidly changing and it is difficult to ascertain ascer-tain the attitude of business men toward to-ward future business affairs for this Germany and there Is no reason loj doubt that this condition will be ac-I ac-I lual within a very short space of time.' The people of the middle west and west do not seem to sense this seriously, serious-ly, but it ha$ been made forcibly apparent ap-parent to the people of the east. Must Prepare for War. "The important thins for us to realize real-ize is that we must be prepared for . we are a rich nation. To illustrate this 1 might say that the United States at the present time Is very much like a rich man starting to walk down a dark alley, with thugs on each side of hiiu, unprotected. The result is obvious. Itj ic highly necessary, therefore, that the -entlmont of ihe people in all parts of the country on this momentous ques- tion of preparedness be pressed upon congress and the president, for these authorities are anxious to perform the! will of the people, if it is made known ' to them "First, we must learn the lesson of, economy and thrift as ft is practiced ' in ihe old world; second, the lesson of efficiency as it has been demon-Btrated demon-Btrated by the nations now at war, and i third, we must develop more lntOO lv and diversified industries in order to become entirely nelf-supporiini I n versa! military training must be demanded de-manded by public sentiment and this does not mean the development of a' military nation as in this country, the civil arm will always be superior to the military arm We should also be the first nation to advocate and promote pro-mote a world league for ihe enforce meni of peat "As we are now about to go into! war, it can be readily understood, from the experience- of our neighbor. Canada. Can-ada. Japan and other nations, thai Lhe conflict win augmeni our present prosperity. pros-perity. The capacity of factories will be increased and production speeded! up to meet, the nation's needs. Many men will be called to the "colors," leaving a shortage of labor and consequent conse-quent high wages, it Is alap virtually a certainty thai the government will negotiate within the next sixty days B loan of a billion dollars and in many other ways, the war will mean unprecedented unprece-dented prosperity for ail industries." |