*5* .' "s?'~t •-iM,-: yj iAt-f .y, SI Si :i 1 lesson*:1 ALL AMERICA MAY GAIN liable to capture more ROYAL HOUSES IN AS OFFICERS than one-half of its" rgo is1 cdri~ OF EUROPE MERCHANT MARINE traband, measured by value, vol-1 A A ume, weight, or the freight rate. The War Now in Progress Takes On the Aspect of a Great Family Carrying Trade Taken Away by Furthermore, foodstuffs and commodities Hostilities From Other Great which are not war materials Mixup. Nations. Flag is Rare Abroad. can only be declared contraband New York, Aug. 8.—European when they are destined iroyal houses are so closely related Chicago, Aug. 8.—More than for the/territory of a country by marriage that the world war 68 per cent of the total tonnage of which is at war. Therefore the riow in progress takes on the aspect sailing vessels and steamers is conditional contraband ruling of a big family quarrel. Emperor represented by the boats of Great might be dodged by shipping Britain, Germany, France, Italy, William II was born in 1859. goods to Germany via Holland— In 1881, at Berlin, he married Russia, and Austria-Hungary, and if the Dutch would permit them Augusta Victoria, princess of this figure is misleading when one to pass—and to Austria via Italy Schleswig-Holstein, born in 1858, ,is considering overseas shipping America's great business opfor One year his senior. In 1888 he the 11 per cent possessed by portunity—outside of the transthe succeeded his father, the late Emperor United States by far the portation fees—lies in the chance 1 1 1 1 1 1 GERMAN'YS POWERFULTORPEDO BOAT FLOTILLA Frederick III. greater part consists of boats en- 'given to develop trade with South His mother, the former Princess gaged in coastwise trade or on America, China, Japan, and India. vmas mms Victoria, was the eldest the Great Lakes. Great Britain and Germany have daughter of the late Queen Victoria, A glance at the tables for large far outstripped us in the for race was the eldest daughter of ocean liners indicates more clearly these markets. land, a sister of King Edward and the leading position of Great The South Americaiy markets of George V. She died aunt Britain and forty-two vessels of particularly should belong to the fell tn 1901. tons or more with a total United States. With a merchant 12,000 So in that way the German tonnage of the latter had .marine, with1 the* Panama canal 644,303, emperor and King George of twenty-two ships of this class'open, the United States ought to England are first cousins. with a total tonnage of be able to lay down goods at the 364,776, King George, born at Marlborough while the United States had but (South American ports at much house in is the son 1865, three ships with a total tonnage less expense than can any counof Of the late King Edward VII and Even Holland and try of Europe. 47,997. Queen Alexandra, daughter of Belgium surpass us for this type Denmark. In 1893 he married THE MADNESS OF THE of vessel, the first named having Mary, Princess of Teck, Victoria nearly twice the American tonnage. GERMAN WAR LORDS in 1910 succeeded his father and the throne. Only upon the theory that the to With the ships of the gr€at European King George's mother a is sistef powers tied up by the war gods have maddened the German of the dowager czarina of war lords unto their self-destrucction there is an opportunity for America Maria Sophie, who 1866 Russia, in can the present plight of to step into the breach and GERMAN DIRIGIBLE HQVERINB OVER BRITISH FLEET married Czar Alexander III. The combine business and philanthropy Germany before the world be explained. If present czar of Russia, Nicholas by building, buying, or otherwise It si too much to believe II, born in 1868, married in 1894 providing ships to take their that the average work-a-day Duchess Alexandra of Hes- Grand place. German has looked forward to He succeeded his father in such a war as this or is in it now The ship owners are the commission Se. the same year. men of international except by tacit and, in the circumstances, Therefore, King George of England inevitable consent. trade they take their bit from and Czar Nicholas of Russia either buyer or seller, and the For years all attempts to inflame cousins, too. are country that does not own ship? the people of the British If Greece should be drawn into is paying this money to the one Isles against Germany, or to the struggle the German Emperor that does. That it is a good business make the British public believe have some further family imbroglios, Will proposition for a country to that the German people were envious, because his sister Sophie, own the ships that carry the products intriguing and designing, born in 1870, married, in 1889, cherishing the one hope of some of other countries as well Crown Prince Constantine, now as its own cannot be denied. day, somehow, humiliating Britain, King George of Greece. The latter's have broken upon the rock The value of the oversea commerce father, King George of carried by the ships of all of truth and saving common Greece, who was assassinated last nations cannot be estimated with sense. year in Salonika, was a brother accuracy, but it is readily apparent Wrapped up in the refusal of of the dowager czarina of Russia, that of the $40,000,000,000 the people of the British Isles to the German emperor's own sister SO worth of merchandise exported be stampeded into an indiscriminate is a cousin-by-law of the emperor and imported each year a large Germanophobia has beep a of Russia. portion is carried by water. Great keen appreciation of Germany's She is at the same time a Britain, of course, imports and contribution to civilization. There Cousin-by-law of King George of ONE OF FRANCE'S GIANT DIRIGIBLES exports all of its merchandise by is probably no music-case in Win- come. What her own people England, as her husband's aunt vessel,the United States sends nipeg that does not contain pre- failed to accomplish will now, it King George's mother. is about four-fifths of its exports ponderatingly the works of Ger- seems almost certain, be brought Now for Italy. King Victor to South America and overseas man composers. There is certain- about by the instrumentality of Emmanuel, who was born in 1869, countries, Brazil's exports by ly no library in Winnipeg of any her neighbors. Germany's mili-, married, in 1896, Helen, daughter water comprise 95 per cent of the account that has not upon its tary autocracy, the feudal idea Of King Nicholas of Montenegro. total, and nearly half of the goods shelves copious books of German by which the Emperor and the' He became king of Italy at the shipped from Asia and practically authors. To the store of science Chancellor dictated to the repreand death of his father, King Hum- au Qf the trade in staoles of Afri- art the patient, plodding Ger- sentatives of the people, will, in bert. in 1900. ca go the same way. Trade between man has added much. In around the event of Germany's defeat, redozen If he stays by the triple alliance the European countries by of German universities ceive short shrift. And this will he will have to fight his father-inlaw. rail is considerable, but these work quietly world-famed schol-' be so, not alone for the benefit of countries ship a large part of. their ars, at whose feet the students of (German democracy, but for the surplus products to other parts of other nations compete eagerly to, benefit of the democracies of the the world. sit. The general standard of ed- whole world. S. E. THOMPSON 1 Monopolizing the carrying trade ucation in Germany is proverbi-j It is quite true that the tide of of the world, however, not only ally high. One could enlarge also German democracy has been risupon & SON would prove profitable but it many excellent features of ing steadily against the feudal. would be a work of humanity as German administrative achieve- status of her executive Government. well. It is npt alone a purely selfish ment—city planning, state insurance, The enormous sympathetic SPECIAL PRICES desire for gain that should public ownership, etc. vote polled for years past for lead this country to use every effort And yet this is the same nation the German Socialist candidates to provide ships for the ocean that today, in the full glare of civilization, has revealed unmistakably the going trade. By providing raw presents a monstrous working of democratic leaven in The "400 Coffee" regular material for the workers in this spectacle. Seemingly resolved upon price 40c, now 35c the nation. But it has worked and other countries the United high-handed aggression from too feebly and too insufficiently. Dill pickles, each lc States would prevent any such the very moment that a petty dis- There is now to be accomplished ii trade paralysis as befell the Lancashire pute between Austria and Servia through the horror of the war Sour pickles, qt., 10c cotton spinners during our loomed Germany has gradual- what should have been achieved up, Sweet pickles, qt., 20c own civil war. During those ly inflamed war upon half of Eu-! by peaceful political agitation, stormy days the imports of cotton rope and of pouring her soldiers But whether by war or by bloodthrough FIRING ON AERIAL SCOUT Sauerkraut, per can.....10c in this most awful of all wars into England from the southern territory the neutrality less revolution, German demoof its position is the more emphatic Regular 10c toilet paper. .5c I states fell from 1,000,000,000 which she herself highly guar-, cracy is destined to come into its against the criminal waste of life' .pounds in to in anteed. [own. To doubt this is to doubt Cheese cloth, per yard... 5c i860 861,000,000 and property into which passion^ In What is the explanation? Sure- tli^ e^fefnSl^^ost ahd the brOadly 1861, 13*000,600 1863. and prejudice have plunged humanity. .This disastrous condition re- it can be none other than the ening. process of the suns. I --PHQNE NO. suited in wholesale pauperisation, .one we -have already .stated, the As for our fellow-Canadian citinearly What the president has done half a Million people ord- madness of the German war lords. ze'ns of German origin we can is none less commendable because jinarily depending on the cotton'] If is impossible to believe that the Awell afford adopt a generous to mills for siipport becoming dependent SSent1plight ranriSg *Vd^ j?!^ ud on public and private we?ent had they tQkrated the'rgcQdcrtizenship and of their toQ hot now to sive room for charities. a/ es®.y®afs m1^ aryau loyalty to Canada, /f hey are not. 0ptjmjsm about checking their a Once Americans have learned cracy which is seventeenth cen- responsible for the present mad-headl rush to arms Even exactly what the embattled nations tury in its conception and mental ness of the German military war it. when their fury hag exhausted consider contraband of war, outlook. lords, although it will be lmposAt BLACK self it is not probable that there they would be able to relieve the head of this archaic* and sible for them not to feel in some POLls* will be opportunity for intermediation, some of the suffering from the f. vicious system has been an Em-!degree their blood relationship I for if one side wins signally war if they had ships to trahsport peror who has inveterately believ- with Britain's enemy. Their loyed it will arrange its own terms of articles not included in that category. and energetically fostered the, alty to Canada will receive neithidea peace, and in case of a .deadlock Contraband articles naturally of the divine right'of rulers, er shock nor hurt, and it will be the contestants will find their own are those that will help directly His madness hes been reflected for us, in the circumstances, to way to bridge over their chasm. and country engaged in throughout the German cities in play the larger-hearted part. But it is not so much the effect TO OPEN -TURN KEY warfare—guns, ammunition, etc. a pampered and arrogant soldiery. upon the fighters that is important "Oil Paste" Polish Conditional contrabands are those It has had its counterpart in Ger- .THE AMERICAN THE in the president's offer as the which help the fighting forces man society by the presence of a For all kinds of Black Shoe* COMMON FRIEND reflection of p-vn Black*, Polishes, Preserves more indirectly, and these may dominating military caste. Germany, sentiment.—Detroit1 Free Press. be treated without notice as contrabands. in short, has tolerated the also Russet "Oil Paste" President Wilson has acted as On this list are found Same size box. each 10c. subordination of the civilian to the nation would have its presi-1 Make ess oflW y«"ur t!r foodstuffs, forage and grain suitable Ask Your Dealerfor the soldier—a condition which dent act tendering his offices for feeding animals, clothing, ease ,thpt :n sooner or later must end fatally, fos peacemaker to the powers of headquarters IP and even gold. as all history proves. ,?Europe. America will always be need anythin_ the line of ?», ...cv- jW^cl,' however, is rhfiA rOSyjfrsV&sWt L* "r rkv §ir. .'"r te 'mma & -m k§ ^iti\ 4"