“Don’t Tark War, T'aLk Bustness” is a slogan that 
out at one on the office desk of a business friend 
in the columns of the newspapers. That will do as 
slogan or as an ideal if one may speak of war and 
Is in a single paragraph? But how can one talk war 
without talking business or talk business without talk- 
ng war? Has not the real business of every man been 
live? To live one must have bread, a roof and some 
2s. To live one must rise above the commonplace 
ere animal existence and think high thoughts and be- 
interested in current events and history in its mak- 
x and unmaking? Never was it more true that “man 
inot live by bread alone.” ‘I'o talk business is to talk 
To talk life we must think and know and seek to 
nderstand. ‘Io him who finds the end of the business 
living in the trade of the market place it will be im- 
sible to talk business without talking war? Is there 
line of bread winning that has not been affected? 
i the increase of thirteen per cent in the cost of living 
t after the declaration of war mean nothing? The 
ket place where fbusiness is being done is terror 
‘ken by the howl of bullets and the hiss of enmity. 
Can a banking credit be exercised with the same alacrity 
ee as on July 20? Does a dollar purchase as much 
_ today as then? On the narrow limited dollar-and-cent 
Ase of life can one talk business without talking war? 
_ If one lives not to earn and amass financial credits, but 
to put into life and to take out of life all that one can, 
a 1 one disregard the consequences upon civilization of 
_ the horrors of war and the miseries entailed by blood- 
_ shed and the annihilation of human talent by the sword 
and bayonet? One cannot talk business without taking 
_ into consideration the war. Nor can one talk war with- 
- out sooner or later awakening to the fact that it effects 
seriously the “business” of living of every inhabitant of 
the world. 
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:- Tan Most Important INTERNATIONAL EvenT of the 
3 ee: apart from the war, is the signing of the Home Rule 
Bill of Ireland. The continental war has loomed so large 
_ in international affairs that this event has passed without 
the real consideration which its importance commands. 
 Treland for a century has conducted an energetic cam- 
_ paign for a Home Rule on matters concerning its own 
insular affairs and now wins.” The autonomy of Austra- 
lia and Canada have been the envy of every Irishman. 
For over thirty years the Home Rule agitation has colored 
the politics of Great Britain. The change has now ar- 
_ rived and Irish autonomy of insular affairs has been 
granted, and Ireland, not all Ireland, however, is happy. 
- Fortunately the ill-fortune of the continental war has 
unified all Ireland and England so that the operation of 
the new atttonomy will become a fact with less friction 
than would have been possible otherwise. The trans- 
 _cendent importance of repelling the Germany enemy has 
made all Ireland one with itself and all Ireland one with 
_ England and Scotland. There is a certain justice in 
Irish Home Rule that every American must recognize. 
It is natural that a minority fears the results of becoming 
__ a minority, but affairs do not always turn as people think 
they forsee. The new Irish Parliment cannot afford to 
sacrifice justice to all Ireland now that justice has been 
done to Ireland. It is to be hoped that even the foes of 
Home Rule will be able to recognize its advantages and 
profit by its provisions. 
Tue Satem Fire seems like a far off forgotten fact, 
the continental war looms so great. 
Brock THE Katser! 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE : 9 
_ Tue CARPENTERS AND Bripck Buripers of the city 
of Boston have started a campaign to increase wages 
again. The maximum now sought is sixty-one cents an 
hour and five working days a week. No one begrudges 
the skilled workmen of the saw and tri-square his honest 
gains nor doubts that he is worthy of his hire; but 
such a proposal must surely arouse comment and thought. 
Someone must pay these aforsaid sixty-one cents, and 
who? Eventually it is paid by the unfavored and poorly 
paid workmen of other lines of trade. Increased work- 
men’s wages means the increase of the cost of construc- 
tion work and repairs. It will take longer now for a 
poor man to own his own house than ever. Increased 
costs means increased costs in interest money where con- 
struction work is done with hired money. Increased cost 
means increased taxes. Increased taxes and increased 
interests means an increase in the cost of the maintenance 
of a house, if the poor man owns his own home. If he 
rents his home it means an increase in rents for the in- 
crease of the maintenance of any property will be charged 
up by the owner onto the rent account. Who is going to 
pay the sixty-one cents? Why the poor man eventually 
and with deathly certainty? 
Tur ATTENDANCE AT THE PRIMARIES on Tuesday 
was not large. As the years go the poll was what has 
been called “light.” But there is some encouragement in 
as large a vote as was polled. ‘There have been several 
reasons why the vote was light. The Presidential year 
always inspires interest all the way down the ticket. 
In a year in which there is a contest on for the guber- 
natorial nomination there is a tendency all along the line 
for renewed interest and an increased poll. Despite the 
disconcerting “atmosphere” created by the war and the 
absence of a gubernatorial contest the poll was reasonably 
good and bespeaks an interest in the primaries that is 
encouraging. The importance of the primaries has not 
yet become known to all voters, but the process of edu- 
cation has been begun. In the near future the real con- 
tests must precede and end with the primaries. If a 
voter expects to be more than a “rubber stamp” at the 
polls on election day it behooves him to become interested 
in the problems preceding the primaries. It is loyalty 
to a party to vote for its nominees, but it is intelligent 
voting when the voters assert their rights to determine 
who shall have the party nominations. 
Ir 1s A Qurstion How Lone Itary can remain out 
of the struggle. If Trieste and Trente are ever to fly 
the Italian flag again it would seem that the time had 
arrived. Germany is not likely to forgive Italy even 
though the Kaiser never said it. 
Aucustus PEasopy GARDNER has been renominated 
from this district by the republican party for Congress- 
man. The district can be depended upon to select an 
intelligent, faithful, solid man to represent then. The 
district does not need a “high flyer” in Congress. 
Ocroper ApproacHes. None fear it, for it brings 
the charms of an Indian Summer and the richly laden 
fruits of man’s struggle and toil with the earth. 
In As Mucu as Four-rirtus of the beet-root sugar 
of the world is produced in the countries at war it 1s not 
surprising that the price of sugar soared. 
Tur Karser Says “my” soldiers. King of England 
says in his address “our” colors. Just the difference be- 
tween attocracy and a limited monarchy. 
