"WAR" ORDERS
"War" Orders AMERICAN manufacturers are selling the Allies "bad" shells. And Great Britain is mightily affronted by such skullduggery. According to a recent dispatch, British experts have been...
...the same applies to other preparedness organs which have approvingly reproduced the cartoon.—s...
...From Speech of Senator La Follette...
...I named directors...
...james russell lowell...
...You will not fail to assure the Government of Mexico that the President neither has, nor can ever have, any sympathy with such designs, in whatever quarter they may arise or whatever character they may take on...
...I find the archives here full of complaints against the Mexican Government for violation of contracts and spoliation and cruelties practiced against American citizens...
...The President never for a moment doubts that the republican system is to pass safely through all ordeals and prove a permanent success in our own country and so to be recommended to adoption by all other nations...
...Let us call tyrants, TYRANTS, and maintain That only freedom comes by the grace of God, And all that comes not by His grace must fall...
...But he thinks, also, that the system everywhere has to make its way painfully through difficulties and embarrassments which result from the action of antagonistical elements which are a legacy of former times and very different institutions...
...I pointed out that there were twenty-three members of the board of directors of the National City Bank, of New York...
...only a mother knows what a man costs—and mothers have no voice in "councils of war...
...I prosecuted my investigation into the various cities of the country to get the financial measure of these ninety-eight gentlemen who controlled the board of directors of all the big business of this country, and it turned out that fourteen men were the big power after all—only fourteen...
...According to a recent dispatch, British experts have been sent over here "to inspect every shell shipped," because "90 per cent, of the big shells failed to explode * * * some being 'loaded' with brick dust and saw dust...
...Who Gets the Money...
...There is none now...
...These interests, consolidated, rule TO-DAY in this country...
...d., in The Public...
...the cartoon represented uncle sam asking president wilson, "just what nation wanted to get into war with us...
...john J. MULLOWNEY...
...that cartoon implied a confession of deceit on the part of the Tribune...
...He willingly defers the performance of a duty, which at any time would seem ungracious, until the incoming administration in Mexico shall have had time, if possible, to cement its authority...
...President, a little further investigation disclosed that these fourteen men lived in terror of two big forces in this country that had grown powerful and gigantic within a few years —STANDARD OIL and MORGAN...
...Would You Like to Go 'Round Again...
...Let us speak plain...
...they procured a victory...
...when the chicago Tribune begins its next scare campaign for universal military service let a cartoon in one of its recent issues he flashed before it...
...They, sir, make the profits out of the building up of the Navy and the Army...
...I named the different corporations they served as members of the boards of directors...
...but he feels that those States are nevertheless justly entitled to a greater for- bearance and more generous sympathies from the Government and people of the United States than they are likely to receive in any other quarter...
...it meant that the whole hysterical campaign for preparedness was a fraud and that the Tribune was aware of it even while it was taking a prominent part therein...
...Yet it was made the subject of scorn and ridicule when eight years ago upon the floor of the United States Senate I undertook to prove the menace of the interlocking directorates of the financial, the transportation, the traction, the industrial, and the commercial organizations of this country...
...If "adulteration" is to be permitted, is it worse to "adulterate" shells so that they will not kill folks than it is to "adulterate" food so it does kill...
...that this bank was the head of a group of banks in New York and a group of financial trust companies (about two dozen in number) that were known in every broker's and banker's office as "the Standard Oil group...
...New York Tribune...
...with wilson remaining, germany's relations with america will continue unchanged.—Cologne Gazette...
...CERTA1N members of the New York Board of Education reason like this: Men teachers are paid more than women teachers for the same work, because men are better teachers...
...it stood by its banner, and out of the west this year came Hiram Johnson, Poindexter and La Follette to join the half-dozen other progressive republican senators and make a powerful group in the next congress, with which the president and the country must reckon...
...the great liberator, Benito Juarez, had inaugurated the laws of reform, but was combated by the same class which is now combating the Government that is seeking to enforce the Reform laws and to liberate the common people...
...The President trusts that your mission, manifesting these sentiments, will reassure the Government of Mexico of his best disposition to favor their commerce and their internal improvements...
...And then, Mr...
...there is more force in names Than most men dream of...
...If we are determined to go on being undisturbed over the methods of certain of our great industries, there is no cause for national shame in this item...
...Lincoln On Mexico WHEN President Lincoln took office in 1861 one of the first questions that confronted him, outside of the internal affairs of this country, was the Mexican situation...
...For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig leaves for the naked truth...
...The roll of the men on the board of directors of these various groups and the various manufacturing, industrial, and commercial enterprises, resolved itself into a little handful of men who appeared on all these different directorates, as I now remember, to the number of ninety-eight, who, operating together, controlled the business of the country...
...there are fine flgliting days ahead, and the wall street ticker may well hiccough itself into spasms, for it has seen its best days.—WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE...
...They are back of great investments in Mexico...
...We have to-day a population of more than one hundred million people, with more than forty million men, women and children engaged in gainful occupation—employed in the creation of more wealth—piling pelion on Ossa...
...and a lie may keep Its throne a whole age longer, if it skulk Behind the shield of some fair-seeming name...
...If we should divide the new wealth created annually among all the men, women and children engaged at work, they would have not far from $1,000 per year each.—JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, Comptroller of the Currency, in recent speech to Bankers...
...These two great groups had been built up when there was some rivalry between Standard Oil and Morgan...
...the west did not forget...
...the inference is that none did, that we had but to mind our own business to stay at peace, and consequently no credit was due the president for keeping us out of war...
...Our Rulers THE "tying together" of the manufacturing, transportation, traction, banking, and other interests of the country has been demonstrated over and over again...
...Yet fully one-half of the wage-earners in this country do not receive incomes sufficient to maintain healthful conditions of living...
...Because they are paid more...
...How is it shown that men are better teachers...
...In a letter of instruction to Thomas Corwin, Minister to Mexico, President Lincoln thus expressed himself: "For a few years past the condition of Mexico has been so unsettled as to raise the question on both sides of the Atlantic whether the time has not come when some foreign power ought, in the general interest of society, to intervene, to establish a protectorate or some other form of government in that country and guarantee its continuance there...
...The President is hopeful of the ultimate triumph of this system over all obstacles, as well in regard to Mexico as in regard to every other American State...
...It is not the President's intention to send forward such claims at the present moment...
...THE ONLY fundamental desire of the american people is peace...
...Their power is at work behind the scenes for a great big Army and a great big Navy...
...that the National Bank of Commerce, with, as I now remember, forty directors was the head of what was then known and is known today as "the Morgan group;'' that associated with that group, and owned and controlled by it, were a dozen of the leading banks and a dozen of the leading trust companies...
Vol. 8 • December 1916 • No. 12
