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been trained to do, and as we still tnust do if we want to 

 bring about a clean "wipe out" cf Prussian militarism 

 and of the would-be junker domination of the world.* 



" You will be foolish to forget," Mr. Octavius Beale told 

 us, " that Professor Foerster owned that * It is by being 

 carried upon the back of the British Empire that zve Germans 

 have acquired our greatest riches.' " Those who have watclied 

 the development and trade routes of our tropical and over- 

 seas dominions know that this statement is perfectly true. 

 We subdue, organize and develop the colonies, and the 

 Germans, and not oui own men, have immediately fol- 

 lowed in our wake, and suck out the profits which should 

 have come to London and sent them to Berlin. All the 

 more foolish of us to allow them to do so ; but it will be 

 worse than foolish if we allow such a thing to continue 

 after the War. 



The glass having been turned into "optics" is then 

 shipped back to us by the "ton," and so much valuable 

 space has, all along, been required first to take the glass 

 to America and afterwards to l)ring back the manufactured 

 article to this side, an article too that could just as well be 

 produced in this country or elsewhere within the Empire, 

 especially now that we have so many men who could sit 

 and grind and polish when other vocations are denied 

 them owing to their honourable scars. As it is, I believe, 

 the lack of space on board the trans-Atlantic boats has 

 caused us to go without much that we have really needed^ 

 and would have used with advantage, had the industry 

 been established partially on this side. 



Millions of capital must be invested, from start to finish, 

 in one form or another, in this German-controlled industry 

 of optical goods, microscopes, telescopes, field glasses, &c., 



' If there is anyone who still imagines that America as a nation is not 

 being urged to do the same, I would suggest that they took note of the 

 following "quote" borrowed from a recent (March, 1918) booklet entitled 

 "Steps to Victory," sent out by the Mechanics and Metals National Bank 

 of the City of New York, on the subject of the War and the need for 

 Economy, Saving and Hard Work . — 



" The War is not a side issue. It is the biggest and most serious thing 

 America has ever faced, and in the crisis we must keep that thought con- 

 stantly before us. The cost of the War to the United States is calculated 

 at more than a billion dollars a month. This means that in turning our 

 energies to the manufacture of war indispensables, a billion dollars' worth 

 of labour and materials must be diverted regularly, every month, away 

 from the gratification of our personal needs and desiies. A billion dollars 

 equals 30 per cent, of the American people's monthly income. 



" Can we effectively divert so large a percentage of our income to war 

 purpose without application of every possible ounce of effort and self- 

 denial ? Hardly." 



