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WHO CAUSED THE WAR?
(Philadelphia Record.)
Now that the kaiser says that his
conscience is clear and that he did not
will Uie war, it is in order to wonder
who Uie guilty party was. Certainly
Great Britain, still unprepared after a
years' hostilities, can hardly be accus
ed, and France and Russia, who are
are not much better off, can make the
same plea. Probably Serbia started
it la order to conquer Austria-Hun
gary and get a place in the sun and a
window on the Adriatic. After the
kaiser’s lucid statement no one, of
course, would ever think of accusing
Germany.
THE KAISER IS WORTH $35,000,000.
la udon Chronicle.)
Eighteen months ago, when the spe
cial military tax was levied, the kaiser
had to pay $1165,000, his fortune being
estimated at about $35,000,000, so he 1
,s far removed from poverty, even J
though $35,000,000 have been lost j
through the war. The origin of the j
I iohenzollern fortune is known to be ■
the accumulations amassed by Fred- ^
crick William 111., the present ruler’s ;
great grandfather, who totaled at least j
$5,000,000 so far back aa 1815. These
were bequeathed to William 1, as
"crown treasure," and under the spe- '
cilic condition that half the amount
should never be spent unless Prussia ^
was in a desperate condition.
WHERE ARE WE AT.
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(Seattle Star.)
Naturally, the importers raised ,a
yell against British interference with
imports from Germany and Austria. '
But—
Isn't it the Ules9ed standpat theory
that the less imports the better for our
own producers?
If we didn't import anything at all,
we'd be better off, wouldn't we? or
would we? Anyhow, it seems to us
that, to be consistent, every high pro
tectionist in the country ought to rise
and condemn Importers who opose any
policy or condition that curtails im
ports.
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ENGLAND'S FISH FAMINE.
(New York Evening Post.)
Fish is now so scarce and dear in j
Great Britain that the government Is j
considering the experiment of import- !
ing chilled or frozen supplies from j
Newfoundland and Canadian waters.
The review of retail food prices in the
I'nited Kingdom for the twelve months
ended July 31, just issued by the board
of trade, shows that the greatest ad
v ar.ee has been in the case of fish. It i
amounts on the average to 75 per cent. 1
The branch of the fish trade most I
closely associated with the consumer |
which has been hit the hardest is fish- I
frying, or the small dealers who sell
fried fish and chip potatoes in poor j
" neighborhoods. In the industrial cen- ‘
ters of the north so enormous Is the !
number of workers who make fried
fish one of the principal articles of
their daily food that dealing in “fish
end-chips" lias become a vast industry.
The business is now beset with serious 1
difficulties. It is primarily for the
purpose of relieving it that the fish- |
cries division of the board of agricul
ture and fisheries is consulting with
a view to the import of fish, in a chilled
or frozen state, from North America. 1
PESTS OF WAR.
(London Standard)
The Hies in some trenches are worse
than others, 1 was in some trenches
yesterday among the most "unhealthy" :
in all sense, of our line. The front j
line winds to the fro considerably In
this part, with the result that there j
are patches of road and trench where ;
the sniper takes his toll. But I learn
ed from personal experience yester
day that the whizz of the sniper's bul
let at all kinds of unexpected moments
was not nearly so unpleasant (nor
possibly so dangerous to health) as
the swarms of fat blue bottles and
houseflies which infested in their thou- '
I sands every corner of the trenches.
They swarmed thick on the men
I sleeping in the dugouts, they fastened
on the lookout at the parapet, they
I clustered greedily on every fragment
j of food, on every spot of refuse. At
1 meal times the men have to brush
the flies off every morsel before they
put it in their mouths. The trenches
were clean and free from bad smells.
The refuse sacks, placed at frequent
intervals, are cleared every twelve
hours. Vet the flies swarm in count
less numbers everywhere, it may seem
incredible, but the noise they made
rising from their settling places as 1
j walked along the trenches was so
loud that more than once it districted
my attention from the German heavy
shells which were coming over with
painful regularity and in distressing
proximity to us.
ALASKAN RAILROADS
(.Kansas City Times.)
The government of the L'niteu
| States has recently appropriated $35,
■ DUO.OOo to build railroads in Alaska.
. No one supposes that, for a long time
;.:t least, the business done by those
ds will be proiltab'e or pay in
terest on the investment, in fact. It
' is becaue they wont' pay that the
government is building tljem. Private
capital can't invest without a fair
! certainty of interest or profits. The
i piled Slates is justified in expending
^mat great sum in Alaska, because it
is developing huge natural resources
and protecting future towns and fu
ture settlers from monopolies of re
sources and monopolistic transporta
tion rates.
NATURALIZATION TREATIES.
(Seattle P.-I.)
When former subjects of Austria
Hungury, who have become naturaliz
ed in tills country, are threatened with
iln- penalties of the Austrian law
should they work in factories fur
nishing munitions of war to the al
lies, there is implied the threat that
Austria-Hungary will violate a treuty
which it lias with the United States.
Hie dual monarchy is one of the coun
tries which has consented to a treaty
with this country by the terms of
which tile right of its subjects to re
nounce their allegiance and to become
citizens of the United States is rec
ognized in the broadest terms. That
treaty, entered into in 1870, in its first
article provides:
‘Citizens of the Austro-Hungarian
, narchy who have resided in the
1' nited States of America uninterrupt
i uly at least live years, and during
such residence have become natural
ized citizens of the United States, shall
'tie held by the government of Aus
tria and Hungary to be American cit
izen and shall be treated as such.”
in tlte second article there Is pro
, ision that a former subject of Aus
. . Hungary, on ids return to ills
native land, may he held liable for
trial and punishment for any action
punishable by the laws of his original
country, committed before his emigra
tion; "on the other hand, a former
ttizen of the Austro-Hungarian mon
archy naturalized in the United States,
who, by or after his emigration, has
transgressed the legal provisions on
military duty, by any acts or omis
sions other than those in the clauses
numbered 1, 3 and 3, can on his re
turn to his original country, neither
lie held subsequently to military ser
\ ice or remain liable to trial and pun
ishment for the nonfulfillment of his
military duty.”
in short, there is nothing which can
he done by un American citizen, born
a subject of the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy, after his emigration to the
United States, which subjects him to
my of the laws of Austria, military
or civil. The threats are waste pa
per, so long as the treaty stands.
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