Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 92, 28 February 1917 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGKAM. WEDNESDAY, FEi. '6, 1917

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Cknjrress of the United States can put an end to this war's robbery of the workers of America. The Congress can stop that. The Congress can protect its own people from ruin. The Congress can stand between the food supplies of our peaceable and industrious workers and the grasping hands of Europe's belligerent governments. 'The Congress can write across our seaports the words: "America First!" Food Shortage le General. The whole world is short of food. Europe's two great granaries and sources of food 'Russia and Rumania are unable to supply a pound or food above the wants of their inhabitants and the requisitions of their conquerors. Argentina's crops were short and are exhausted. Canada has been more engaged in making war across the ocean than in making bread at home. Our own crops were not up to stand ard last year, and will be less this year. In the one item of wheat we were short about 40 per cent, of the aormal crop. The normal production of England, France and Italy has been reduced by the demands of the military chiefs for more men to be wounded and killed. The cannons must have food, if the people starve. Under these conditions the inevitable has happened. America Begins to Suffer. Our own food supplies are reduced to the danger point by abnormal sales to European belligerents, and the labor necessary to grow greater crops to supply the loss is drawn away from the farms and fields to the huge factories, where the- munitions makers add new millions of blood-money to the millions that have already swollen their riches beyond aU former dreams of greed. Our people's food is sold away from them and the sources of new supply are then closed by the same unpatriotic greed. The results are that while these parvenu millionaires cannot find methods extravagant enough to waste their riches, the industrious poor cannot find methods economical enough to enable their wives and children to keep warm, to have decent clothes and sufficient nourishing food. Real Danger Ahead. And we say to any one who smiles at these declarations and warnings that there is DANGER in such conditions REAL DANGER. And gentlemen of the Congress of the United States you who are the representatives of the common people If you are anything at all we say to you that you should end these conditions befpre they become more dangerous, before hunger becomes starvation, before discontent becomes riot, before street assemblies become mobs. Not only are the whole people, outside of the small circle of the rich and their dependents and parasites, exasperated, but many thousands of them are at their wit's ends to keep body and soul together. People Need Food. . That they are not actually dying of famine is true. But they are actually suffering from lack of enough food and of the right kind of food. ' That is true. And those who are not suffering are being robbed of their' wages and their savings.' And for what? What are we selling the food of our people for and the clothes from their backs? Why, for the paper promises to pay of bankrupts who already owe more than the wealth of all the world could pay. England's Fault. For if all the gold that has been mined from the earth since the day that Jesus was born in Bethlehem until this very hour was piled up in one heap it would not pay one-fifth of the debt which ENGLAND ALONE has contracted In these two years of hor ror and massacre. We are actually stripping our people of food and clothing and all necessities, and destroying the savings of our Industrious working classes, in order that our banks' and our investors' stronp boxes may be filled and heaped up with promises to pay that will not be worth the paper they are printed i on when the butchered and oppressed and harried peoples of Europe rise

against their ruling classes and the

conditions of their living and tumble every government from Petrograd to London In one common heap of revolutionary ruin. But there is still another and a most weighty and compelling reason why

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this exhaustion of our supplies and necessities shoul.i be stopped. WK NEED EVERY POUND OF OUR FOOD SUPPLIES AND EVERY OUNCE OF MUNITIONS AND EVERY CANNON. RIFLE, AEROPLANE AND ALL THE EQUIPMENT WE CAN MANUFACTURE FOR OUR OWN DEFENSE AGAINST SUDDEN ATTACK. The jingo press . and such jingo politicians as Roosevelt, Lodge, Root, Gardner and all that sort of war lunatics do not seem to be able to see what war would mean. Fear Asiatic Treachery They seem to think that all we will have to do is to sit secure at home and feed our young men and our wealth into the maw of Europe's distant war. But we tell you that the stage is all set for something far more desperate and bloody than a long-range war. And it is Asiatic treachery that has set the stage. ' We should think that even our warlunatics, bereft of all power to reason as they seem to be, could perceive that the GERMAN MILITARY CASTE, the Pan-GermanB, as they call themselves, are more desirous that tho United States should declare war upon the Central Empires than are our war-lunatics themselves. Germany's Ultimate Aim And It ought to penetrate even their heads that there roust be something more than mere lust of warfare in this German military caste's anxiety to be at war with us. The reasons are plain enough. If we go to war with the Central Empires, the German submarines can range the whole ocean, instead of narrow blockade zones, and sink everything afloat without hesitation AND THAT SPELLS ENGLAND'S DOOM IN A FEW SHORT MONTHS. Every officer in our navy knows that is so. The . English Government knows that is 60. Do you see any anxiety expressed In ENGLISH rapers that we should go to war with the Central Empires? You do not English Papers Silent ' And that is because the English papers say very little which the English Government does not want said, and the English Cabinet-ministers know that only America's NEUTRAL AID can save England now, and that America's declaration of war upon Germany means England upon her knees in less than half a year. The German. MILITARY CASTE, though not the German PEOPLE, want ar. American declaration of war in order to remove the last restraint upon submarine warfare and TO ENABLE THEM TO SINK SHIPS ALL OVER THE SEVEN SEAS. And what else is in store? Japan la Ready Why, Japan is armed and ready and eager to make her war upon us the moment we are well entangled in this European struggle. With our navy occupied in the Atlantic and the Panama Canal, the Pacific Coast and the Philippines and Hawpil all wide open to the attack of the Japanese navy and the Japanese army numbering over 2,000,000 trained and largely veteran soldiers equipped with every weapon and device of modern warfare, and secretly or openly leagued with Russia and the Central Empires, we should simply RE HELPLESS AND BE BEATEN TO A PULP if we keep on stripping our own country of its resources and its means of defense until these Asiatic and European wars are at our doors. When we say that the stage has been secretly set for Just this tragedy, we mean exactly what we say. It is neither untruth nor mere surmise nor exaggeration. Japan's Real Aims . IT IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The alliance which now exists between Russia and Japan Is an alliance for the seizure and the division of China, India and Persia. It contem plates the seizure of the German, Dutch, English and French possessions and the ejection of the United States from the Philippines and Hawaii. The reactionary party pledged to this program is now in control of the Russian Government, and is destroying the power of the Duma and of the zemstvos with a ruthless hand in order to consummate a separate peace with Germany and Austria. Whenever we declare war upon Germany, if we do at all, Russia and Japan will withdraw from the allies, leave the Central Empires to crush

I England, France and Italy, and be-

sui lutif uwa separate enterprise 01 seizing and partitioning Asia. We say again to you that we are stating facts. Why, it was but yesterday that the

news came or Japan s latest prepare

tion; but yesterday that we learned

of Japanese munition factories being established in Mexico, with the aid of

our dear friend Carranza.

We think a wise people would look with more resentment upon that move

than upon a Mexican attack. Ground Between Two Stones. That move is the first move in Japan's game of war. And, In spirit, it is a defiance of the Monroe doctrine, and in fact a threat and Insult to America. And if we listen to the war lunatics and if we go on wasting and selling our resources and EVEN OUR VERY WEAPONS OF DEFENSE to Europe, we will find ourselves, and that before long, being ground between the nipper millstone of German and Austrian submarine warfare in tbe'Atlantic and the powerful and long meditated and carefully prepared attack of Russia and Japan upon our Pacific possessions and our western coast.

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Now, It is madness enough for us to play Into the hands of those who have prepared this plan of destruction for us, but, In God's name, bow much more insane is it to walk straight toward our cunning and powerful enemies' trap AND GIVE AWAY AND SELL OUR ARMS AND DEFENSES AS WE GO! ,-- . One of the ablest officers who has honored himself in the highest commands in our service said, in private and in bitter resentment, the other day, that he had come to the conclusion that the newspapers and men who were urging the country toward war were all insane that they were madmen who were unable to perceive the dreadful danger they were trying to bring upon thir country, and the sure defeat they would prepare for the allies. Hope Lies in Congress. Gentlemen of the Congress, you are the hope of the country in these times of unreason and war-madness. You should not desert your posts. You should exercise your constitutional authority to call the new Congress, to which so many of you will belong, in immediate session. You should then exercise your authority to put an end to this exhaustion of the nation's food and supplies and defensive weapons. You should, too, exercise your authority to maintain the peace of the nation and to encourage and, as far as is possible, to enforce peace upon the nations of Europe. ' Instead of making war and enlarging the woe and destruction of the world, let us stand for peace and try to save as much as can be saved of wrecked civilization. Prepare Us for War. And, above all, while maintaining the peace, do you exercise your authority to prepare us for defense in war. Enact the law that , will train our young men to be fit to fight for their country as their fathers fought for it Enact legislation that will pile up huge stores of war material against the time of war. Equip our forts and enlarge our air defenses, and put our navy and our army in such a condition that no enemy will dare to risk an attack upon us. And then maintain the peace of the nation against all the influences that clamor for war to the very last minute that war can be sensibly and reasonably avoided. We Are Not Afraid to Fight. When that time does come that we MUST fight, there will be no division of opinon or action among your countrymen. There is not one man or woman among us all who will shirk any sacrifice that the Republic demands. We are neither afraid to fight for our country nor to die for our country we Americans. Any one who says that we are Is a false knave and a liar in his throat. But it would be worse than murder to lead our men to war with neither training nor weapons, and it is a vicious moral treason that continues to strip the country of its food and with wealth and its weapons while urging it on to war with naked hands against foes armed from head to heel.

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