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NOME, ALSKA, JUNE 26, 1915.
The announcement of Secretary l-ane
that the vast army of tourl3ts who an
nually Journey to Europe spend at least
one hundred million dollars means far
more than appears at a superficial
glance. To the average person this
huge sum conveys but little Intelli
gence through mere repetition. So ac
customed have we of America become
to the announcement of great sums as
expressed In the frequent statements
relative to the gigantic business man
ipulations of the present age that we
have really lost sight of the true im
mensity, the enormous value, involved
in the vast compilation of wealth ne
cessary to make up a sum so great
as one hundred million dollars. Fifty
years ago to mention a sum of such
huge proportion was to evoke a gasp
of astonishment and even awe. Even
twenty years ago such values were
looked upon as a something almost
unreal except when used in connection
with Ihe wealth or liabilities of na
tions. That a comparatively smell
portion of the nation could annually
spend a sum of such dimension during
a brief visit to Europe would. In that
(lay. have been looked upon as utterly
improbable, even ridiculous Yet. to
day it is not only probable but is in
deed a fact. Every year during al
most the entire last decade a sum
equal or greater has drifted out of the
United States to the detriment of this
and to the benefit of foreign nations.
Every year through this medium a sum
almost equal to the entire amount re
quired for the upkeep of the army or
navy passes out of the country for
practically nothing but the mere sat
isfaction of looking upon strange or
unusual sights and scenes. In com
parison to the amount expended hut
little of value is returned save in the
matter of feminine finery paid for at
extravagant prices and actually repre
senting but a trifle of the values
charged On an average of every ten
years, at the present rate, a sum equal
to entire Interest hearing debt of the
nation is and will he taken from the
total wealth and distributed In foreign
lands by a few people. The outbreak
of the war. as pointed out by Secretary
Dane, means that this great sum will
not as formerly leave the nation, with
little or no return of a concrete nature,
but will he largely spent in the Uni
ted States. Thus, in effect, Instead of
being a drain upon the wealth of the
land the closing of the gates to Eu
rope will bring about a benefit from
which the country has been long de
prived. In other words the country will
be saved exactly the portion of this
great sum which will be spent here
because of the lack of facilities for
spending l» elsewhere. Instead of be
ing taken out of the United States and
spent In other lands the money will
this year he spent In America, which
virtually means that the sum is dou
bled In Its effects through being spent
at home It is difficult to grasp in the
fullest sense just what this means to
the nation for the mind Is unable to
gather more than a fraint conception of
the wide spreading Influence of the
addition of such a huge sum to the
per capita expenditures. It Is doubt
less easy to discern that the effect will
bp felt in the greatest degree in those
industries catering io pleasure and
travel. The changed status will be
an immense benefit to transportation
by land and water, hotels, summer
resorts, boarding houses and lake and
seaside resorts. These will be the ones
to receive the primary and immediate
benefit, but through them the butcher
and baker, the manufacturer, the pro
ducers of foodstuffs and a countless
host of others will also receive a bene
fit. Continued analysis cannot but dis
close that nearly every- resident of the
United States will indirectly share in
some degree in the disbursement of this
great sum of money. In every degree
the spending of this huge amount of
money spells an added prosperity to
a host of people. Money spent in the
United States for American products
will give employment to American
labor and this Is perhaps the greatest
benefit to be derived from the expen
diture, Instead of being spent in for
eign lands for foreign commodities and
for the benefit of foreign workers, the
money will remain at home and he
spent for the benefit of those thrifty
citizens who were its original produc
ers.
Lord Kitehner has asked parliament
for authority to enlist 300,000 more
men. In his view, no man is fit to bp
sent to the front unless he has hail
at least six months of drill and train
ing. If the authority is granted him.
none of the men to he enlisted will be
available at the front for another six
months. This seems conclusive that the
British war secretary has no idea that
[the war will end during the present
year.
No details have been made public
of the number of men who have thus
far been enlisted for the British army.
Scattered reports have, however, been
given of the number of enlistments in
certain cities, provinces and districts.
For example, the public statement has
been made that Manchester alone has
furnished 85,000 men for the new- army.
That is at the enormous ratio of 11
per cent of the entire population of the
city. If that ratio were preserved else
where, which it certainly has not been,
that would mean an enlistment of an
army of 5,000,000 men.
Other places from which statistics
are available show much lower ratios
but one statistician figures out that
enlistments by this time must have
reached at least 3,250,000 men. Several
months ago the Inst official statement
on the subject of the number of en
listments was made by Premier As
quith. who then asserted that the na
tion had more than 2,000,000 men un
der arms. In the intervening months
every possible effort has been made to
secure additional enlistments. Perhaps
the estimate that the British land
forces now include over 3.000,000 men
may not be far out of the way.
The length of line which England is
holding on the western war frontier, as
compared with that held by France,
would indicate, however, that the Brit
ish forces can hardly lie comparable
with the French in point of numbers.
Let us go back and look up the his
tory of that “scrap of paper." it takes
us back to 1830, when Holland was the
ruler of Belgium, and in that year tlie
plucky Belgians rose in rebellion, seek
ing for independence. In 1830 the in
dependence of Belgium was recognized
by the nations, and a treaty was drawn
tip and signed by the great powers of
Piussia, France, England. Austria and
Russia. By this treaty Belgium was
declared neutral territory and was for
bidden to enter into any war on behalf
of any of the other contending na
tions. and as a reward for that the
towers agreed to respect her neutrality
and defend her against any attacking
force. Then the Franeo-Prussian war
broke out in 1870. It was then that
the matter was taken up by England
with the two powers at war as to
whether the neutrality of little Bel
gium would be respected. Both France
and Prussia agreed to maintain the
honor of this "scrap of paper,” and
not a single soldier of either power
crossed her territory. It was then that
Gladstone uttered that strong word of
moral integrity which the statesmen
of England have never felt:
"If the Pelginn people desire, on their
own account, to join France or any
ether country, I for one will be no
party to taking up arms to prevent it.
But that the Belgians, whether they
will or rot, shall go “plump" down
the maw of another country to satis
fy dynastic greed, is another matter.
The accomplishment of such a crime
as this Implies would come near to the
extinction of public right in Europe,
and I do not think we could look on
while the sacrifice of freedom and in
dependence was in c-ourse of consum
mation.—National Magazine.
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