Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1914 — ARMOR PLATE IN WAR [ARTICLE]

ARMOR PLATE IN WAR

It is a commonplace among pacifists that the ‘'armor-plate” interests and the “armor-plate” press foment wars. To a certain extent it is true that the manufacturers of armaments and the papers they own carry on the militarists’ propaganda, but it is said that the “armor-plate” interests do not want big wars. They want littlet, wars and rumors of big wars. This keeps a good steady trade going with plenty of orders, improvements every year, credit good and bills regularly paid. By way of evidence it is said that during the crisis before the present outbreak the only papers in Berlin which opposed war were the Socialist Vorwaerts and the Post, owned by Krupps of Essen, and the Tagllche Rundschau, another paper of the “ar-mor-plate” press. One quite sees the point of view. In a big war governments are using armaments more < *>,*»»•" - *

than they are toying them, and future profits are fi|mere gamble against defeat. Perhapiythe "armor-plate” interests have not overlooked* the possibility that Armageddon may ,put them out of business altogether.— Manchester Guardian.