The Commoner
MARCH, 1917
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riotlc act, and one that should be
discouraged, to multiply occasions of
conflict by entering the danger zone.
The Emergency Peace Federation
will establish a headquarters In
Washington which will carry on the
campaign anibng members of con
gress. The first activity of" the or
ganization was to distribute state
ments of prominent opponents -of
militarism. Some of these are signed
by Mrs. J. Sargent Cram, Professor
Overstreet, Max Eastman, Joseph D.
Cannon, representing the Western
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THE COMMONER, LINCOLN, NEB.
Miners' Union and the mill and
smeltex workers; Dr. H. W. Laidler,
and Jane Addams.
Altogether the work of tho Emer
gency Peace Federation waB as ef
fective a piece of organization in he
half of a public movement as Wash
ington has witnessed in many a day.
People did not toss it off as mere
"propaganda." They came to 'the
meetings, listened, and applauded.
Somehow tho pacifists got a better
reception than their most enthusi
astic followers had believed was
possible in Vtho national capital.
Which leads to a suspicion that the
war spirit has not yet taken hold as
widely an the jingoed would havo
people believe. '
MR. STONE ON JINGO PRESS
Senator Stone of Missouri, ad
dressing the United States senate
February 16, said:
"I am not arguing tho matter es
pecially with a view of offering any
amendment, but I am saying what
I do with a view to expressing my
opinion, and putting it in the Record
and before my colleagues of the sen
ate, that I believe that men who try
unduly and by false statements to
involve this country in tho disasters
of war are public enemies, no mat
ter what their pretensions to virtue
and patriotism; and that tho publi
cation or the mere making for pub
lic use in any way ot bitter and
venomous false statements, whether
intended to influence the action of a
foreign government or our own gov
ernment, ought to be curtailed, if
not prohiibted, as far as possible.
I think tho effect of the law ought
to bear, upon those who seek delib
erately to mislead their own govern
ment as well as upon those who
make statements intended to mislead
the foreign government with which
we may have a dispute. It ought to
work both ways, and la many .
spects it is more important that it
should operate with respect to our
own government."
on the amounts they have borrowed.
They have" spent all they ,can ob
tain and aro still clamoring for
more. The total of theso expend
tures has reached tho enormous flg
uro of $80,000,000,000.
BELLIGERENTS VIRTUALLY IN
BANKRUPTCY
A Pittsburgh uispatch, dated Jan.
25, says: Losses so staggering they
beggar mere flcures and words have
been sustained by the peoples of the
14 warring nations in the last two
years and a half. Not counting the
value of "human lives, the injury of
millions of able-bodied men ana.
other indirect results, such as cessa
tion of industry and commerce, the
fighting countries have suffered to
the extent of more than $85,000,
000,000. Those figures were revealed today
at the meeting of 1,200 business men
from all over the country by the
National Foreign Trade council, a
division of the National Foreign
Trade convention. The convention
is being presided over by James A.
Farrell, president of the United
States steel corporation, and hun
dreds of men of almost equal prom
inence in the business world are at
tending. One item alone in the trade coun
cil's summary of the losses the
direct destruction of public and pri
vate property, such as homes, fac
tories, churches and public build
ingstotals $5,985,000,000. To this
must be added the loss of the value
of millions of men killed and
maimed for life. Then there is the
loss of commerce and manufacture
and othpr kinds of industry which
can not be computed.
The nations of Europe are virtu
ally bankrupt. Each has borrowed
more than it can eyer hope to repay.
Some can not even pay the interest
INSURANCE IN FORCE
Decomber 3, 190G $ C59.000
Decotnber 31, 1908 1,453,218
Decomber 31, 1910 2,641,1)84
December 31, 1912 4,805,502
December 31, 1914 0,580,004
December 31, 191C 8,785,771
ADMITTED ASSETS
December 3,1, 190G 115,829
December 31, 1908 101,562
December 31,' 1910 236,730
Decomber 31, 1912 397,951
December 31, 1914 591,872
Decomber 31, 1916 857,106
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