THE REAL WOODROW WILSON,
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With the almost precipitate suddenness which accompanies publicity in America
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11TH, 1917.
PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR.
PROSPERITY OF WORKERS.
Without steamships, railways, mechani-
1 árt met Woodrow Wilson Jn 1911.cal, agricultural appliances and milling When he was Governor of New Jersey. machinery, food stuffs, particularly grain,
could not be delivered into the working man's home to-day at a fraction of the i had been projected from the academic rate required a century ago, when every quier of a collego presidency into the fiores thing was done at great physical effort dight that beats about national politicsby, purely manual work. One hundred He was a Presidential possibility.
If your Kings were elected by popular vote you would and the parallel in an motive Governor of Kent (assuming that there was such an office) being almost unexpectedly considered as a candidate for the national rulership. This swift projec. tion into the arena of national life, how ever, was not as sudden as appeared on the surface. The explanation furnishes thurst intimate
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GOD'S OWN GERMANY.
THE SOURCE OF ITS ENDURANCE,
[BY WILLIAM ARCHER,].
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THE GERMAN FLEET.
WILL IT COME OUT AGAIN!
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Is 1017 fated to witness the greatest sen In the New York weekly, Life which may be called quite inaccurately, the baitle of all time, a battle which, like Mr G. ■. Audsison American Punch-there appears perhaps Trafalgar, will settle the question of adval Me Thoraft the most seathing cartoon that the war predominance for generations? Among Mr & Mrs W. R. Baker has elicited. It is founded on the well- naval officers, opinion is divided is to known snapshot of the Kaiser marching whether the High Sea Fleet will come out Mr H. Boring
force to accept a decisive engagement. Mr W. LL. Barker at the head of platoon formed by his or continue to lurk behind its shore Mr. Bardott six sons. In the Life drawing, we defences ad minefields, leaving the netive Me H.
Me H. A. Faster and
bilde years ago wheat was sold at 126s, Od, per lane of bright limelight through a
sircraft.
Mr. B. Baldies limolight these seven figures swagger Those who favour the fatter theory argue a R, D. Bell quarter, ag against 328. Id. in 1918. Here boundless expanse of shadow, and in the Prosecution of the way to submarines and is one of the most convincing proofs of the jauntily along their plumes waving in that, after experiencing the devastating advantage of machinery. This results the air, their bulging chests bedecked effect of British gunnery at Jutland, the
the pro been achieved entirely because
activity of labour has been nugmented in with medals, while the dougin of Germans will have no stomach for another an enormously greater ratio than the darkness on either hand is peopled by eticounter with the Grand Fleet, especitily Mr & Mrs Ch Dr A. T. Kholerer
isha swarming multitude labour cost involved.
erick Pr of emaciated, they know themselves to be outeumhered glowering with heavy ships by something like two to
MR. E
Balilion responsible for the statement that because spectral this principle has also been applied to famished eyes at the blithe cortege. The Nevertheless, there are indications Mr.O.. Brebard A Family in Germany that that momentous naval developments are: Penedict
Mr K. JA Birbook shipbuilding, ships are to-day 30 per cent. legend is
than thirty years ago, whereas in has not lost a member. This drawing approaching cheaper
Frony trustworthy Mr.6. T. Bitung the building and allied trades, where sums up to perfection the present Rapect
at the dm L AL Blackniton character of the President who has faced wages have increased at an even greater of the war world starving and quarters ofis of incessant activity at the most difficult and solemn problems ratio than the volume of output, all build agonishing that the Hohenzollerns may German hanes. The capital ships of the M. Bogljen
Mr JAW O. encountered by an American Executive since Lincoln'e day. When Wilson was in cost 0 er cent more than thirty continuic to swagger in the limelighting Plent are frequently seen at sen your, ngo, Thns, we have, ag ï result of The Hohenmillerns and all they stand for
practising
& Mrs Branch States he saw the vision of national reduced rates of freight for transport over King God
Green of light cruisers and destroyers, Capt A. Brai kwhite and the Superman--the while overhead, the ubiquitous Zeppelins career rounded out with the goal that is. thic tream of every American schoolboyen, a reduction in the cost of food and childish superstitution of divine right, scan the surface for prowling periscopes, Mr W. Gore Browne
raw material for manufacturers, with cleverly exploited by a gang of people During October and November, heavy and the Presidency.
immense gain in respect of the cost of who believe in nothing from the roof sustained gunfire audible in the western
Mrs Br
Bridgen Then began a definite campaign of preliving, as well as in the extent of employ upward, save the right of unscrupulous section of the Baltic denoted battle prae- Mr H. W. Bromfield peration-slow, sometimes stolid, but meat.
It will be Mr & Mrs B. J. Camp always persistent. Those who know
On the other hand, the working classes rec and cunning to organise and rule tice on an extensive scale. the world. And
bell Woodrow Wilson best and they are not
remembered tha similar activity was.D. £. Camboy Mr G. Melli observed in the months that preceded the MAU. E. Carr many know that he has always felt him are called upon to pay rents 30 per cent. more than they should were manufacturing
But in one respect the Life cartoon is DOUBTFUL NEWS FROM NEUTRALS.
battle of Jutland, self to be more or less a Man of Politica efficiency and economy achieved in the Destiny. Now comes the first and only house-building trade to the same extent as untrue to fact. It represents the famie Speculation as to the present strength kinship with Theodore Roosevelt, who in the construction of ships. Severnu multitude making threatening go of the High Sen Fleet is necessarily futile. almost from birth has believed himself to other contrasts could easily be made, Wetures and shaking claw-like fists at the From the beginning of the war Germany's be an inspired Nation Meator.
Each of might instance the great decrease in the little band of strutting paladins. If naval ports have been hermetically sealed, these men realised his dream by different working cost of railway lines due to we think of the victims as Eolgians, and extraordinary pains are taken to hide processes, that are astonishingly typical of higher mechanical efficiency, and a conse Poles, and Serbians, this is right enough; from the world the nature and extent of their temperament
quent reduction in overland freight rates, but the artist, I take it, intends them to the work that is in progress at those places. Basevelt was inevitable. Exiled inte notwithstanding increased wages on the represent the German people, Now it At the same time, a great deal of dubious the political eclipse which magis unds, the other hand, there is the lordeny in coal is, of course, hard to say what is actually informatios ing Jeen-alculated from office of Vice President, he was raised tonining to make wages directly propor going on in Germany; but such evidence German sources with regard to the the Presidency by the tragic death of tional to the selling price of coal. In as there is tends to show, not only that building policy adopted during the war, William McKinley. But, regardless of the latter case the users of coal--and every overt discontent is effectually held in In particular, the Scandinavian Frese circumstances, I would have eisen. It is working man must have his supply of chock, but that the mass of the people has frequently asserted, on the basis of as impossible to suppress bitu as it is to household fuel have to pay more because do not really feel any resentment against special information" from Germany. curb Niagara
alted drawn Whats the of the market prices; to increase the the author of their suffering. It is said beet (only me for go way ups, the United States called Grant-a Mau regulate Horseback which means that he had been selling price and consequently advance the that the Kaiser is ts popular as ever been laid down in the country since the outbreak, and that new construction 18 nor is his tribe detested. Of course confined to light cruisers, torpedo craft,
Mr W. A. Dowlay The principle is literally dashed into politics on the red wages of the worker
Mr W. Downle wave of war. The exploits of the Rough wrong, although apparently accepted popular resentment and fury has from con
and submarines. Similar powe often. Riders in the Cuban War made Roosevelt because it is a simple due for adjusting the first been adroitly switched off from appears in the American, Dutch, and Swier &MA. W. Baat Mr W. Schontenderp Governor of New York, which is one trath-
It removes that incentive the Court and the Junkers, and concen-
13 highly Mra H.
Eyik tional approach to the White House. With towards mechanical efficiency which, as we trated upon England. But one woulder Such unanimity Wilson, on the other hand, there was none have contended, is the first principle of have supposed it possible by this time suspicious, pointing as it does to a common Mr M. van Exter
origin, which can only be German,
Mr V L Fairley of the glamour of spectacular heroism, no commercial prosperity a
to combine the most bloodthirsty hatred
It 28, 18 fact, precisely the sort of Mr W. Farley tumult or shouting. His elevation to the
of England with a realisation that some intelligence one would expect the enemy
J. Pab That this extension of mechanical
power highest office in the gift of the people was the Anal act of a silent dramin of patient has been not only beneficial in reducing the tow the people in over had contrived to disseminate if he were devoting his Miss G. N. Ferguson
to mismanage matters to, a quite ghastly entire resources to the production of super. Mn A. Forbes. preparedness. I explains, perhaps, what cost of living, but in augmenting carnings..
M. EO. Frey
Mr & Mrs J Stuart- Dr. Hunter had no difficulty in establish extent, and to bring upon Germany Dreadnoughts, That submarines continue seemed to be his interminable tochange ing. He showed that the artisan's rent losses and sufferings for which no con- to be built in large numbers is known Me Dens as Fuller Smil
Germou insult aggression. His Job-like attitude which rasped so many wages, taking into account the onset of cervable victory could by any possibility positively but the output of such craft Lapt&M WAS MAL Spencer
Fuiton and chillar C., Speyer of his countrymen bespoke to lack of living, were 100 per cent. greater than in compensate. The hope of starving. Eng must be enormous indeed if it is, mong
Mrs. Gaches
Mra Borby the years immediately
Bquar patriotism. It was merely Wilson the
workit is not physically filling at the price.uilding industry. the unhurried tenor of his way to reach iners were 77 per cent. better off. Indeed, at How comes is that no one is Germany Another suspicious item of news which MrJ
no time in the history of England would seems to say, even in the recesses of his reaches us from many neutral quarters is Mr C. L. Goodrick
10 the time the moment of action
G. Gerden
•effect
that, although the building of M Gouldbourn the Conditions of the workmen compare heart: England, and her Allies mậy TEE MAN AND HIS METHODS with those of the present, Taking 1850 jas be demons, as our pastors and masters great men-of-war has been practically
Mr P. J. Gray suspended, the German yards are working a starting point, the years 1806-0 showed assure us but who is it that has given at full blast on merchant vessels, laige Mr B. Grimshaw Let me illustrate. When I first met then increase of 10 per cent, 1876 9 n these demons power over us? President I had been assigned to write increase of 30 per cent, 1865-9 an increase
numbers of which have been laid- down or
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THAT MY A Thompson magazine interview with him. It was an of 50 per cent, and the years 1890 9 an
Taunched in the last year or two. This, we M&Mys Hannibal important moment in his career. Millions increase of 90 per cent., in
are told, is in preparation for tho struggle fifty years the would food what he said." As a matter of real wage was quite doubled: Again, be
for meresatile supremacy which Germany Mr C. B. Hara fact, his utterances bocaine campaign the other side of the balance sheet there
believes will follow immediately after the
Hurrey document. His procedure was characteris is the fact that in 1881 food and drink
war. It soundy, far from convincing.
Mr G. Harper tio of what he did in reabcrises.
39 per cent higher were
than the
With almost the whole of her existing T mercantile fleet lying idle in home or C. A. Hen erson We rode in his motor car from Trenton, beginning of this century. In European the capital of New Jersey, down to Sea countries generally rent wages per hour
föreiga ports, with new capital at a pre- Girt, his summer home. He talked of worked are 20 to 20 per cent, lower than
min, and with the growing probability GE demning that
ST BE di Mir A Hesse, Allies, if successful, the
will business, labour, capital, the tariff-all in Great Britain, notwithstanding that
indemnify themselves for their shipping MrW A Hi inbolam those subjects that pressed down upon the the working week is of from 58 to 80
losses at the expense of her mercantile
Mr W. Hund mind of America. Unlike Roosevelt, whose instead of 54. ns in Great Britain Miners
marine, what incentive has Germany to
Mr A.Stelion Hooper Mr G. G. Wood spooch is like a rapid-firs gun at work. wages on the Continent are about 40 to 50 Wilson talks slowly, deliberately, care per cent, less. In the United States and fully weighing his words. Roosevelt acts some of our colonies, however, money wages or speaks first and thinks afterwards. His and real wages are higher than in Great
Britain. This, Dr. Hunter contcnded,”
resources, and the increased output of labour per worker, a result of improved mechanical appliances, more favourable row material, greater exertion of the workers, or better organization in the establishments, or of all of these combined. The statement of the problem is simple, its solution a great difficulty, which re- quires patience in negotiation, enlighten ment, and a definite desire for the good. of the whole of the people.Engineering.
wage rates.
Man pursuing, og Wilson the President, Napoleonic.era, while agri the land may be spiritually consoling but polizing the attention of the German ship-
mistakes are those of action. Wilson is to two causes, the natural wealth and
just the reverse, His errors lie on van- Zion's side
Like most American public men, he spoke frankly. When I submitted the manoscript of the interview to him he almost completely revised it, because he had changed his mind about the various subjects. Perhaps I should say that he changed the form of expression rather than his mind. He wanted no ushappy word to recoil on his hend
Mr. Wilson was then lean of face, long. and hard of jaw (it is the Scotch in him). with a clear and calculating eye, and hair only moderately sprinkled with grey. He facks Roosevelt's sunburst of a smile, but he can relax, for he has a very keen sense of humour. The war has aged him just as
try
associates, A definite reason for this was
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
A few weeks ago I reonived a letter from an American lady in Paris-I sup pose I must call her neutral, though one of her sons has given his life for Frence.
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why, when all these Notes are going around, ely do not the Allies write Note to the German people, who are so helpless, starving, ready to do any thing, but not knowing how-being told all the time that the Allies only want to exterminate them direct skilled labour and precious raw Me W.J. Hodge
mater
material to the creation of new merchant shipping Even
THE ONE CHANCE.
the most case hardened German
&NH G. G. Sabrieke & child
Mr P. M. Boots Mr J. E. 800
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Mr J. R. Flyna
Mrs Mofariby
Mr
O.Millor
Why can we not say to them, Were ron nut content in the spring of 19141 Was there a harbour in the world where your ships were not welcome A country that did not receive you militarist now realizes that his country is gladly? Were you not conquering, the bound to fail in the war unless she can world with your science and trade and achieve sane measure of success in the Ms Rus Almeed Mr & Mr Manners learning? Were you not happy and punyal treu Sincy the blockade has become prosperous 3 Can you not see that in fact, we do not heer so much of the Anderson
of the triumph. German people, by disavowing hor
Moltke over Mahan, work and bringing about peace, can effort to snatch at least a semblance of nich
gone stark med, she will be bending every obliterate that stain and win the re
low batch spect of the world again and the placa victory at ses. One really effective MPXOM/ Wetterly they ones, held the place in this element would do more to re- Mr & Mrs Finlayson It is not quite clear how my oorrespond-habilitat her cattlefields of the Con-MAG. Hartler a succession of My F. H. Fisher
of
BADHerman
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Prussin has stained the name of Gerformer boast from Berlin about the AT
many. so deeply that only the true conquering these Unless, Germany has G. Er Coatalio
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Mr D. Mulder
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Calmart, Hoby. Findley
Roberts Col. R. E. Darling Mr & Mr Mr Smith
Mow A. Findlay Smith
ent proposed to disseminate this Note, timent of the blockade becomes and children He talks precisely as he writes--brilliant, nor does it greatly matter, for I doubt
Mr & Mrs Hammes ly Save only Roosevelt, no living Ameri whether it would produce any effect, even more and more intolerable, and the pro- Mr
As the pressure of the if it could be delivered by post to pect of a really decisive military success Mr In can approaches him as phrase-maker.
A. S. Hawker One ourious fact about Wilson's method morrow at every door in Germany, For in East or West grows ever fainter, Ger- Me de Men Wm.
In Inokuły it hus matured everyone. His face is that he writes all his important work the great psychological fact with which many is bound to turn her eyes towards leaner, the jaw looks longer bet firmer un a small typewriter himself. He knows we have to deal is, I am convinced, the the Fleet, her last remaining card. The My 8. James Jackson his hair is almost white. There are deep shorthand, and his plan is to jot down the enormous, the quite haparallelel, vanity reward of a success at sen would be pro- M. E. Jami lines about his mouth-otched by the speech, message, or letter in a notebook of the German nation. To turn apon digious; the consequence of failure would Mr J. Joseph travail of long and anxious waiting. They in the form of shorthand notes and then their rulers would be, in fact, turning add but little to her plight. By every law K. Kunigak began when the Lusitania was sunk transcribe them. His famous Note to upon themselves, It would be an admis of logic she is constrained to strike with Mrs Moine
In those searching days you got a glimpse Germany after the torpedoing of the siou that they had been wrong in sup her utmost power at sea. When, where, or as A. D. Münald of the working of Wilson's mind. Hs Lusitane was done in this way
posing: Germany immeasurably superior how this blow is to be delivered can only became a man sloof. He almost lived in
Woodrow Wilson has more than a com- to all the rest of the world not only be conjectured. But that it will be struck his study; he took solitary walks into the munity of grave war responsibility with in military force and technical efficiency at no distant date is the conclusion tu country. Alone he wrestled with the prob- Abraham Lincoln Like the Great Eman (Tuchtigkeit), but also in political wis which one is driven after a careful study lem that meant peace or war for his coun-
of all the ovidence available. Fortunately, He practically took no counsel of his cipator, he prefers to point his moral or doni. It would be an abandonment of the recent changes at the Admiralty the MD. K. Blair
drive home his argument with a story the theory that the Germans are the that Mr. Bryan, by the grace of politics, Dos of his favourite, is of a doughty chosen people of God. The prevalence ration has a pledge that the control of Lt, & Mrs Cameron Mr. V L. Perkins happened to be Secretary of State. But as captain who had to deal with a voisy of this strange tribal theism is one of the our naval forces is in thoroughly capable Mr Mrs FW. Cary Mr & Mrs R Ralphs his whole conduct reflected one of his and mutinous crew. He got them together most amazing things revealed by the war, hands, and can thus await with calm what may prove to be the final atfampt of the as the Amor on the deck one day, audu langungo more There must be millions of Germans who despairing enemy to escape his inevitable atrongest traits, which is, cans say, "to go it alone. I happen to forceful then elegant laid down, the law. deduce the existence of God from the know that in several of the great war Then he added with vehemence All I manifest fact that He has showered all emergencies more especially his pence want of you move he deliberately ignored the advice of that, men is silence, and not much His blessings exclusively upon their
When one thinks of the sublimely of those believed to be his closest friends Analyse Wilson's speeches and letters and race. Without a God how could there be
a chosen people?
cock-a-whoop pamphlets of the opening R With the exception of Roosevelt he will find a like simplicity atablished more precedents than any other directness of style, and with plenty and THE VANITY OF GERMANY months of the war, and the shaolute.com- MTJ B. Johns
To da aly this seems so grotesque as fidence that it was to be another 1870, Mr & Man Nell President. Not since Washington's day instances, the same kind of homely applicato be almost incredible But ze should only ten times as smashing, one knows MacIntyre Has any Chief Executive of the nation tion of truths. His historic speech to Con- make a great mistake if we doubted or that there must be a huge, a tragic dis appeared in person before Congress. Yet gress in which he defied Germany may well merely laughed at the colossal vanity of illusionment abroad in Germany. No Wilson did this on more than one occasion noblest utterances, and more especially the Germany. It cannot be fully realised doubt, that they have had even more TONDON SELLING AGENTSI
elsim kinship with some of Lincoln's This performance invests a State document, with what Americans keenly like the Second Inaugural Speech,
until one has waded through masses of victories than they reckoned on; bat thing known as human interest.
I am one of many Americans who have literature, only small portions of which at what cost and to what purpose? The differed with President Wilson in policy are as yet available in English disproportion between the effort and any THE PARALLEL WITH LINCOLN and politics, who felt, after the official To call this frantic self-worship conceivable end to be attained must now This leads me to one of his greatest gifts inertia which followed the sinking of the source of strength would be be tolerably patent to the least intelligent. an oratory strangely effective when you Lusitanis, that his Americanism had cynical and inaccurate but it is beyond Why then, does the average German not consider his academic structure. It misses become diluted. But eventually he has all doubt a source of pastinacy, of grim think of arraigning the men in high the God-given fervour of Lloyd George's found the way to the truth and to the endurance, In very real sense it may places who have led him into this Blough efequence has none of the impassioned light. Having declared the faith, he will be amid that Germany is to day living on of Despend 11 suggest that, it is be
abide by the great decisi fire that Roosevelt puts into his speeches.
It is the her vanity. It is called, patriotism, it course be is so absolutely identified with But, it has a finished, polished and well Wilson way. His Americanism, now the in called Will to Victory, it has many the military and social system which he nigh perfect expression of word and Americanism of an aroused and maited other altare; but it is in fact sheer holds to be incomparably the best in delivery that never fails to hold attention people, is henceforth part of that larger Inability to believe that God's own Ger the world, that to arraign his leader
world-creed of organised protest against many can have made a gigantie mistake. would a to hit himself in the face (Continued at foot of next column) authorised brutalityDaily Mael.
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