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China has always been a fertile field for the sowing of "spheres of influence"; and since the almost complete apportionment of Africa, Asia assumes dangerous significance. Raw material must be had; and with the supply to severely limited, conflict is inevitable. As Africa was dominant among the powerful economic causes of the last war. China will be the prize in the next--if men permit another such confiagration. And who shall prevent the outbreak, with Russia and Japan pitted against the four great powers of Europe? America's ostensibly disinterested policy in the Far East would necessarily be given...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...Enactment of laws by contracting parties to control production, distribution and exportation of raw opium...
...taking this action was revealed. Major Jones explained that these appointments are the direct result of an elaborate industrial policy which has been undertaken by Secretary of War Weeks. This policy consists of a nation-wide census of all industries with a view to ascertaining their maximum efficiency. All raw materials and products used by these industries are traced to their source and the limit of supply calculated. By this means, in case of another war, the government in appropriating certain industries will be assured of the greatest possible production...
Books pass current for a sort of slice from life; it is life as reflected, then, which is objectionable to these self-styled judges for the people. "Evil to him who evil thinks." Great books in every age have grappled with the raw problems of life, near as they are to universal experience. The Albany legislators either deny the reality of these problems, or think that they can legislate them into smoke by passing bills against pictures or representations of these problems in one form or another. In their zeal for meddling and political quackery, the sponsors of the "Clean...