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Cheyenne Record.
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Speech of Clyde H. Tavenner
It! regard t<* Goveri m nt owr.*
erstup of Munition.-, of Wa;.
I xtract from Congressional
■fcrvon .
By Clyde H. Tavener.
Although scarcely believable,
it is tlie proven fact that British
a«.<t German war trusts many
years ago actually set about to
represent to their respective
home Governments Inal their ri
vals Were plaining to build and
building great armadas of giant
fighting craft, which have since
uten proven absolutely to have
been figments of the imagination !
pure and” simple. ihe same |
character of campaigns has been
going on between France and
Germany, between the countries
in the tiiple alliance arid the trip
le entente, and it is yet to be es-j
tablished whether the United
States of America has not also
been a victim of a similar brand
of commercialism, in which pa
triotism is the means and profit
the end.
Misrepsentations as to the
building programs of great Brit
ain and Germany were carried
on to such an extent that the pa
pers became full of it, and the
suspicion of the people toward
each other grew grew. It was
inevitable that there could be but
one end to such proceedings, and
that end war.
Specific information, replete
with details, is available to show
just how the work was carried
on.
Briefly, this is the. story: Be
ginning in 1906, Mr. H. H. Mul
lins, managing d r.ctor of the
Coventry Ordnance Co., of Eng
land, one of the great British
war trafficking concerns, gave
himself to the work of propaga
ting the myth of a gigantic ex
pansion of Krupp’s work in par
ticular and German military ac
celeration in general, "’he ‘Di
ary of the great surrender,”
which Mr. Muliner himself after
wards published (London Times,
Jan 3, 1910,) contains these two
entries, which practically covered
the period of the campaign.
May 13, 1906, Mr. Mulliner
first informs British admirality
of preparations for enormously in
creasing the Germany Navy.
(This information was concealed
from the British nation until
March, 1909 )
March 3, 1909, Mr. Muliner
giving evidence before the Brit
ish Cabinet, proves that the enor
mous acceleration in Germany
for producing armaments, about'
which he had perpetually warned j
the Admirality, was an accom
plished fact, and that large quan
titles of naval guns and mount
ings were being made wich great
rapidity in that country.
It was an underground cam
paign, but subsequent letters and
speeches (Mulliner’s communica
tions to London Times, Aug. 2
and 16, Sept. 21, Dec 14, and 17,
1909; Jan 1,3, 6,7, 8. 12, 15 and
18, 1910, etc) indicate that Mr.
Mulliner’s “information sent to
the war office in May 1906, was
“passed on to the Admirality,”
“was discussed by them with
several outsiders.” and then
“passed from hand to hand so
that hundreds have read it”
CHEYINNE WELLS, CHEYENNE COUNTY, COLORADO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915.
Of this "‘information” it need
only be added that as soon as it
became public it was contradict
ed by Messrs Krupp, through
Hon. John Leyland, member of
Parliament, in England and oth
er correspondents. After some
years it was practically by the
3ritish Government to have been
false. Time has proved it never
had any real basis.
But the “inforn\ation\ had its
! the effect that Managing Direc
tor Mulliner, of the Coventry Co
desired that it should, have.
The “information” becoming
public, swept Great Britain off
its feet. The people took up and
! repeated the war' traders’ slogan;
j “We want eight, and we won’t
! wait,” meaning battleships.
| Ten days after Mr. Mulliner
j presented his “information” to
| the supreme governing body of
j the British Empire the statement
I explanatory of the navy esti
mates was made. It showed a
total of $170,793,522 for 1909-10,
an increase of $13,720,752; new
construction accounting for an
increase of $6,512,400.
As a result of the “tip” fur
nished by the managing director
of the war munition firm, the
British Government foretold that
Germany would have 17 dread
naught battleships by March 1912
and Leader Balfour, still more
impressed by the fake “scare”
declared Germany would have 25
or, in any case, 21, dreadnaughts
in March 1912.
On almost the same day the
predicting was going on in Eng
land, the German admiral. Von
Tirpitz, told the budget commit
tee of the German Reichstag that
the German Navy would have 13
dreadnaughts in the autumn of
1912.
Germany had in fact, accord
ing to the British Naval Annual
only 9 dreadnaoght battleships
and cruisers on March 31, 1912,
and only 14 on March 31, 1913,
WAR FOR MONEY SAYS
FORD.
America Should Show Up Real
Causes and End Conflct He
Declares.
[From Denver News.]
Henry W. Ford, automobile
manufacturer, who believes in
the uplift of the conflict and
practices his belief by employing
him, spent a strenuous day in
Denver yesterday, on his way
home from a trip to the Pacific
coast, where he and Thomas A.
Edison hobnobbed with Luther
Burbank and refused all invita
tions to make public speeches.
Mr. Ford began the day in
Denver with an argument con
cerning the “flivver” that C. J.
Hendy, Jr,, manager of the lo
cal plant, had at the station.
The automobile magnate had
some well defined ideas as to
what he wanted to do. He didn't
want to ride—he wanted to walk.
He didn’t want to see parks,
boulevards or fine homes, but
something he had never seen be
fore. Factories where men were
working was his peference, Con
vinced that six miles to the Ford
factory was to long for a casual
stroll, Mr. Ford and Mrs. Ford
made the journey in the Ford
provided by Mr. Hendy.
[ ‘‘l don’t believe in war, and
j and preparedness is but another
,name for war.” said Mr. Ford.
J “I didn’t accept memberehip on
the committee of inventors and
scientists to aid Uncle Sam in de
vising means of national self-de
fense because I don’t believe in
I war. Not one Ford has been
sold to any nation engaged in
war.
“This talk of pieparedness is
only intended to keep the muni
tions factories busy after the war
is over. War is but a game of
the big financiers, who wouldn’t
fight themselves and would run
at the drop of the hat. but who
are perfectly willing to let the
others fight if it means dividends
for the financiers. The United
States doesn’t want war and I
don’t think we we will have any.
“The newspapers of America
could stop this war in ninety
days, if they would show up the
cause of the war, who is back of
it, and who is to profit by it. If
the world understood all this it
would not be very long bi.'rr
there would be permanent peace.
The United States should show
the way to everlasting peace.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
One would have thought that
fortune %had smiled upon the
teachers last week had he have
seen their happy faces. Well
the reason was they had been
down to Mr. Adam’s and had a
merry time and in the meantime
ate one of Mrs. Adams’ big meals
Miss Trumbor was the only ab
sentee. Mrs. Akerly and Mrs.
Sadler also ate their share and
that was a plenty.
The boys of the seventh and
eighth grades are delighted with
a new five dollar basketball that
arrived Tuesday. The high
school boys wi.l have to look out
now.
The second number of the lv
ceum course was given Saturday
night by Dr. Hedley and gave
satisfaction to all. The weather
was somewhat cold, but yet the
attendance was very good.
Mrs. Weir county Superintend
ant, visited many of the classes
in the high school Friday. She
is keeping a close eye on the high
school as well as upon the grade
work throughout the whole coun
ty. JSuch woik is pleasing to
conscientious teachers and pupils
also.
The high school board met
Saturday and besides doing rou
tine business, they appointed
Messrs. Akerly and Sadler a com
mittee to purchase a piano for
the dormitory. The committee
have several piar.os under consid
eration.
On Thanksgiven night, Nov,
25th, Hann’scolored jubilee sing
ers, seven in number, will give
an entertainment in the high
school building for thebenefit of
the|dormitory piano fund. This
is one of the best musical num
bers on the road land one that
wojld cost at least a dollar to see
in the large cities where they
. sing. Arrangments will be made
to seat all that come and it is
earnestly hoped that the patron
age may be good.
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i t
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Two basketball teams will go
to Sharon Springs, Friday to rep
resent the Cheyenne high school
one of the boys and one of the
girls. May good luck attend
their effort.
The high school orchestra omit
ted their usual practice Tuesday
night, but met at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Sadler, Thursday
night where they gave some very
good music. Light refreshments
were served.
A new Underwood typewriter
has been ordered for the 1 igh
school office to take the place of
the old Oliver which has been so
badly used that it was of but
little use. This puts the office
equipments in excellent shape,
better than many larger schools.
Sheriff Philips, accompanied
I by Mrs. Phillips, was down in
! the extreme southwest part of
I the county on offiicial business,
returning Monday morning to
find that, in his absence, Under
! Sheriff H. C. Swinehart had been
I busy hunting a horse thief, and
: through telegrams sent out, the
undersheriff at Cheyenne Wells
had captured both the theif and
| stolen horse. Sheriff Phillips
[ went to the Wells Monday after
! noon and brought his prisoner to
i Hugo Tuesday morning.—Hugo
i Ledger.
| Later: Word was received that
| the young man had been sen
tenced to the penitentiary and
! same night broke jail and made
; his escape.
B. A. Cruson arriv ed in Chey
enne Wells the latter part of last
week. Bert went to Arapahoe
and purchased a town lot and
will erect a building 24x32 feet,
which he wilt use for a restaur
ant and lodging hoasi fo.* t' e ac
commodation of the public. He
will start to building at once. It
is something that is need id in
Arapahoe, and Bert is a good
man at this business, a~d we
hope the farmers when they come
to town will treat him right and
patronize him, and show hirp
that your appetites are always in
good trim.
COLORADO FED HOGS
TOP MARKET.
That Colorado climate, Colora-.
do raised feeds and proper care
and attention will produce hog.-s
the equal, if not the superior, of
those produced anywhere in the
country, was again demonstrated
at the Denver stock yards this
morning, when a couple of cars
of fancy Duroc-Jersey hogs, fed
and raised by the J. O. D. Ranch
company, of Aroya, Colo, sold
here at $6.70, the top of the mar»
Ket today and higher than any
Eastern raised hogs sold on tho
river markets today-
The hogs marketed today wero
seven months old and weighed
165 pounds each. They were
raised on. cement floors, fed on
Colorado raised corn, shorts and
tankage, and alfalfa hay,
vef Post, Nov. 11, 1915.
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