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FRIDAY. JAN. 21. 1916.
'GOD GIVE US MEN!"
UndertheaboverHi.tionsome -
one wrote the heautiful poem
shadowing the desire for men as
leaders to lead the human race
out of the entanglement into
which the i.ianv efforts at rov -
" ........ - --- r-
'eminent and guidance ure in
volving the world. The cry is
still going out, and the world is
anxiously awaiting the up pear
snce of this latter day leader
that the warmth and sunshine
of Peace may again mantle the
earth as with a blanket.
A mighty leader is a great
boon to any people, hut unless
there is a desire to he led on the
part of those needing a leader
there is not likely to he much
achieved in the movement.
Kurope needs something just
now, hut so far as we can ob
serve it is hii application of the
Golden Rule, and without that
there can he nothing secured
but a patched up peace.
"Men are hut hoys grown
tall," and in times past they have
had to lie whipped into line, so
that the lug effort now in the
Eastern continent is hut a sam
ple of tht) past, except, that it is
on a larger scale, and is still in
process completion.
Nothing comes until the world
is prepared for it. When Eu
ropean nations are ready for the
cessation of hostilities they will
cease in that quarter at least.
Silver and Gold Production for
The Year 1915 in the U. S.
Increases in tho mine pro
duction of silver were especially
notable in Montana, Utah, and
Arizona, ami were considerable
.in Idaho, Alaska. New Mexico,
and Texas; but large decreases
were reported from Colorado
I i V 1 on
ami irom .Nevada, lollowing
similar decreases in I'.U J. pn.
liuiinary totals, based on ore
marketed as distinguished from
ore smelted, indicate a record
output of nearly 71,000,000
ounces of silver from all domestic
mines for MM."; hut some of this
was produced under stimulation
of better prices at the close of
tho year and will reach metallic
form at the smelters and refin
eries this year.
The imports of silver into the
United States for the 10 mouths
endine October 151. I'll.". -r
valued at 2S,,Ol,"7, of which
f 17,0"t'),2.V came from Mexico,
f410,OJO from Canada, if ;!,577,-'
from South America, and
l,-IMi,.0K from Central Ameri.!,,,
,. ; . " T "ea iratie, let us
c, according to the records of , look at the record 0f her Prin
t ureauofl-oreign and Do- cipa. company, the Hamburg
n s cCommerce The exports American. Organized in 1S47
n: rr w,w vai""11 a c t . v .
lwent to England, j sailin, shi.s , , . .. ,
en 10 uongicoiig, fiUT.V.iiu to
France, and j t0 Ul
u
Wast in.ii.... mm. .....
V
oe imai niii.oris
of silver in 191 1 nm valued at
Uj."1!i."i!)1b7 ami the exports tit
:.1,i;o:?,h;ii.
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I The vtar just closed was of
I
unusual inlert Willi reject to
eor,(,i jjllW of Ilil illt'l
the United States mm Lurope,
' inai it) v a result of the prviitly
! inereiisini; Imlaiice of trade Hi
favor of this country since the
nnthreiik of the war. For the
'first ten months of HU't the im
'ports of jtold were !4",ri( ,'J7'5,
of which 21li,:!OJ,ls2 came by
,wav of Canada and f JS.21 l,(M9
from Knuland .lirect,Jl,H
from Australia. IIO.'.O.S 10 from
Japan, l.'Mi.O.TnO from South
lAinerica, ii,.i.v" ""
hi til L'LI f
j France, WI'J.S.&S'J from the
West Indies, and f
! from Mexico. The exports of
j gold for the same period were
1 1 "-S7o,-lS0 of which ll-V'-V
4.") went to the West Indies.
The imports of gold in 11(1 4
were .'7,.'!S7,711 and the ex
ports are 22'J,(lli,lofi.
The Freedom of the Seas
In commercial circles, one ol
the first lessons that a young
business man is obliged to learn
is the fact that figures may he
made to lie; jn politics nothing
is more misleading than a scin
tillating catch wo rd. The
"Crown of Thorns" almost
brought immortality to our late
Secretary of State, hut not quite
In the present war nothing has
appealed to the sympathy am
understanding more than the
proposition put forward by Ger
many for "freedom of the seas."
What is really intended by such
an appeal; what is the real sig
nificance of the term? At tirst
the answer seems readily given;
hut should the .reader ask the
question of his friends he would
be surprised at the variety of re
plies it would bring forth. This
proposition as put forth by Ger
many is evidently a protest
against the dominance of Great
Britain on the high seas. Hut
the questions naturally arise
Has Germany ever been hin
dered or ever suffered from want
of such freedom until the pres
ent war began? Has she h6en
the victim of a selfish policy on
the part of Great Britain, that
has curbed the growth and de
velopment of either the Imperial
Navy or her mercantile marine;
i i , i
uas sue suiierea trom preter
ential duties or any prohibitory
laws which have curbed the
growth of her forcing commerce
or the development of her mar
ine power? Has England dur
ing the last half century exer
cised her overpowering naval
forces against the development
of any of her neighbors? On
the contrary, has not Germany,
as the chief commercial rival of
England during this period, de
veloped her maritime marine
resources, both naval and mer-'
eantiie, in a manner which is
unprecedented?
Let the facts speak for them
selves; and by way of showing
the unhindered growth of Ger-
. , . .
ii'ise. In lSiio it possessed six
.,;!;.. . i . ..
.-"ill HI VIIIIW Hit I ft,.... .
.....-" ove steamers
M.l oa , :.. .
'steal,. n,u ..l' . T? 1
I " uv'w" i"i
isso twentv ships totalling
iM Hi tons; in the next decade the
feet was more then doubled, con
sisting i" 1M(0 of forty-one ships
aggregating l::' tons. In
the following decade the tonnage
was more than trebled, the line
possessing in H00 eighty-three
ships totalling IKVMl tons It
had doubled again by HMO, the
list showing in this year one
hundred and lifty-eight ships of
S7ii,015 tons. At the opening
of the war in 10 H the total ton
nage had risen to over 1,200,000.
In that same year, the North
German Lloyd, whose growth
during the same period has been
also phenomenal, possessed a
total tonnage of about S.'iO.OOO.
Evidently her two great
steamship companies have had
no cause to complain of inter
ference with the freedom of the
seas.
Now as to the general mari
time trade of Germany: We
liud that during the calendar
year 1913 there entered German
ports 14,202,000 net registered
tons of German ships and 12,
840,000 tons of foreign ships,
and that there cleared from Ger
man ports about the same
amount of shipping, equally di
vided between foreign and Ger
man, the total entered and
cleared being 54.238,000 net
registered tons of shipping.
The total quantity of goods im
ported and exported by way of
the seas in this year reached the
huge total of 78,835,105 tons.
Scientific American.
The plant of the Universal
Portland Cement Company, a
subsidiary of the Steel Corpora
tion, is Hearing completion, and
the (irst cement will, probably
be made about February 1. The
present activity in the steel bus
iness continues; it is believed
that between 2,500 and 3,000
men will be employed in the
Steel Corporation's two Duluth
plants next spring.
Prune Demand Firm
The remainder of that part of
the 1915 Polk county prune crop
purchased by the J. K. Armsby
company will be put in boxes im
mediately and shipped to New
York to fill an order from the
company's main offices. It is
customary to hold some of the
prunes until just before the nick-
q a
mg of the new crop, and this fall
the company packed a large num
ber of boxes of prunes left from
the previous season for shipment
just before the new crop was un
loaded at the plant. This order
of things will be changed this
year, however, and the remain
dor of the 1915 crop, consisting
of approximately 3 carloads, will
be packed for shipment as soon
as possible. For several days
hands have been busy at the big
plant preparing boxes to receive
the pack and bright and early
Monday morning the steam will
be turned on to commence put
ting the fruit in the boxes for
shipment A full force of help
will report for work Monday and
the order that will entirely clean
out the bunkers of the plant will
be made ready with all possible
haste. The season for the Arms
by company has been an unusu
ally good one, and further evi
dence of this statement is had in
the fact that the last of the sea-
; son s crop will be shipped out be
'ore the actual Ptag season is
finished. -Observer,
CITY MEAT MARKET
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