"DISGUSTINGLY RICH!"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2780, 26 May 1916, Page 6

"DISGUSTINGLY RICH!"

' CONDITIONS ~TN THE UNITED STATES. "United States is making so much monoy out of this war," states a business letter from Canada to a local firm, "that they really do not know what to do with it. Every hotel, cafe, theatre, opera house, and every conceivable place of amnsement is packed to the roof. As it is the fashion to have everything at a premium, theatre tickets tire sold at about five times their value. For instance, I was offered two seats for the opeTa in New 1 York for fifty dollars, which cost twelve when you wero here a year ago. Naturally the working people are not slow to recognise these. conditions, and are very, unstable, and strike evenother day for less hours, more wages, and everything else under tho sun. The railroads are so congested that it takes as long as 15 days to move a freight car 15 miles.

"Warner Eros, are advertising in all the papers in [he State of Connecticut for help. Tliey are short of SOO hands. These girls and men have left them to go and work for such firms as tho 'Remington Repeating Anns Co., who have put up a _new plant employing 15.000 people. The building is ppve:i stories.high, and I swear it is a mile long. This is quite outside their old factory,' which has doubled its output. This new plant has cost 30,000,000 dollars (,£(>,000,000), and lias only been put up to mako small ammunition. ,

"United States is disgustinglv rich at present. I do pot reproach them anything. Tliey are certainly reaping vast nroKts fvmn their great services rendered to the Allies. But if we compare their position and ours (in Canada) in Ihese things, which people ar.e apt not to' do. they are not at all identical. You will sec that if wo in Canada are part of America, United States is tho only heaven in this war.

"Do people in Australasia ask themselves what the British Empire : is .win? to get out of this war? AYhen the thinix is over anil it has cost us our shirt, what means do the people of Australasia expect will be taken to reimburse ns from " a financial standpoint? Of course, the less .of human life wo finite willingly sacrificed <>n the altar of Imperialism and Right without regret; bnt, for tho rest. "wo think that it behoves lis to see that we are not, forgotten in the aftermath, and not let U.S.A. anil other neutral countries reap the benefit."