Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-10-11 | Page 4 | Is Peace Coming Suddenly?

IS PEACE COMING SUDDENLY? Watch the tftock markets for the first forecasts of peace. For weeks stocks have been dropping on Wall streoL Thero may be two forces work-ins work-ins to cause this drop. One is the control con-trol of the products of industry by the I government, which is eliminating excess ex-cess war profits, and the other the news which comes from inner financial finan-cial circles in Europe. More than one largo commercial institution in New York possesses sources of information in relation to the war which are not open to even the government. Our big financiers know what is going on in Germany and thoy are well Informed on the aims of the allies. They know what conditions are necessary to peace ) and when they begin to see signs of the end of the struggle, the stock market mar-ket will reflect their apprehensivenoBS as to the future when the period of readjustment re-adjustment is at hand. At present there Is sufficient nervousness ner-vousness manifested in the big stoci transactions to indicata that pcaco la prospectively near. Germany 1b weakening. The mutiny oa the battleship fleet is highly significant. signifi-cant. y It discloses unbearable strain la the Gorman empire and a restlessness restless-ness which tb3 Iron discipline of tho P'Cr repress. When German Ger-man morale yields to despair, peace win come with a Burprisinff suddenness. sudden-ness. We may be close to that collapse at this time.