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WEAILTH.
By BURRITT
HAMILTON.
Poor
am 1?
lam
rich,
though
pen-
niless.
I have
my
wish—ean
all
your
weaith
buy
more
?
You
own
the
land.
I
own
the
Ilandscape.
It
is
well.
1
would rather hear
the
laughter
of
mv
little boy,
tte
song
that springs
‘involun-
tarily wo his mother’s
lips: I would rather
be
a cashicr
of
a
bank of kisses
with
a
biillion
in reserve;
1
would rather
direct
a
synaicate
of smiles
paying daily
divi-
denas
of hoitest
joy:
i1 would rather
be
a
treasurer
oi a
trusc
company
having
a
paid
up
capita! of spiendid
hope
and
a
charter
perpetual
in tris world
and
the
next—li
wouid rather
own
these
dollar-
iess
resources
of content
than
to be
abie
to _draw
my
cheque
for
a
million
with
whicn
I
wcould
purchase
neither
love.
bhappiness
nor iiamortality.-—7The Port-of-
Spain Gazetie,
Sept.
24th.
FRENCH
WAR
LOSS
WAS
26
PER
CENT OF MEN MOBILIZED.
Andre
Tardieu,
Speaking
On
Treaty,
Says
57 Ot FEivery
100 Men Under Thirty
Une
Were
Killed.
Paris,
Sept.
2nd.—Andre
Tardieu,
speaking
for
the goveroment
during the
debate
in the Chamber
of Deputies
this
afternoon
ou
ratification of
the
German®
peace
treaty.
said the French
war
losses
consticuted
twenty-six
per
cent, of
the
men
mobilized.
Fifty-seven
per
cent,
of
ali men with
-he
colors uu?g{
thirty-
one
years o
age
werekilled. g&%
“"I'ne
peace
obtained
by the
#rench
delegation
1s a
peace
winich guarantees
solidarity
and
justice,
in
accordance
with
the
principles
for
which
our
sol-
diers died,’”” Mr. Tarvdieu
deciared.
Andre Tardieu
expressed
surprise
that
the
members.
of the Right
vere
eriticiz-
ing the treaty because
the
(erms
were
too
mild towzu;? Germany,
and
tae
members
of the Left because
they
ware
too
severe.
In conclusionhe
said,
that
the
treaty
gave
France
all the Lecess
iry guarantees
especially
the
Angio-Freaoeh
American
conventions,
to place Germauy
in such
a
military
and
economic
position
that
Fran-e
need
have
no fear
of a recurrence
of aggression
on-thée"
part
o:
Germany.
Louis Barthou,
fd@amerly
Premier
and
chairiman
of
the
Ratificati
n
Commirtee,
declar~d
taat
the
tréaty
was
insufficient,
and
obscure.
e
‘repro::hed
Premier
Clemenceau
withshavirg
kept
t
e pariia-
mentary
commissions
in
ignorance
of
the
negotiations-
“Your ndered
great
services
daring the
war,
b
1t you did
not
win the
war
along
Why
should
you
negotiatg
peace
apne?’’
Mr.
Barthou
asked. —lbid.
COMING
AMERICAN
*‘ CRASH”
Londin
Business
N>n Siys
‘We
Have
Nothing
so
Pear,'’
_
.
An
encouxapimg
view
of
our
trade
prospects
in comparison
aqd
comped-
tion
with
Amegiea’s
is
aken
by
Mr.
.
Mackay
Edgar,
nead
o/
the
well-
known
City
firm ¢f Sper.ing
and
Co.,
which
has
large
interest:
in
America,
Canada,
Mexico, Kussia"a
:d
clsewhere.
We
in Grgat
Dritain
hive
very
littie
to
fer
from
Ajmercan
comperition,
said
Mr.
(dgar infan
intecview
yester
day.
Don’t
think
that
|
am
crabbing
America.
Mat
would
b 2 &bs.rd
in
view of
her size,
wealth
resources
and
the
industrial
echigracter
and
aptitudes
of her
people.
But
Amer
ca
has
some
prefty
considerabje
troul
es
ahead
of
her,
and
very heavy
hanc.ccps
(o over-
come.
In gy« Opinion
we
siand
a
bet-
ter chance
of getting
through
the
rough
watews
than she does.
The’Fallir;g $:
A New
View.
Take,
for
inStance,
this
ijuestion
of
the American
exXehange
[t looks
a
very
bad thing for us when
the sound
is
only
worth about
sevemteen
shiilings
in New
York but
itis
vesyg much
worse for
the
Americans.
It
means
that
we
can ot
afford
to purchasgin
t-e
United States;
that
we wil buy anywhere
except
there,
and that
we will only
take
such
Ameri-
carr
goods
%a;]d products
as
we are
phy-
\L’. |
fl iél
.
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sically
unable
to
get
from
some
other
country
where
the
exchange
is less
ad
verse.
And
America
just
now
wants
to
ex-
port all
she
can.
She
is loaded
up with
goods
nd produets,
the output
of which
has
been
enormously
stipulated
by
the
war.
What
is she
to do?
She
must
eith-
er sell
at
a
loss
or cut.down
production.
In either
case
there
is
bound
to
be
a
drop in
wages-
-then
Icok out for squalls.
Towering
Prices
In
America.
We
talk
a
iot
over
here
about
the
demands
of
labour,
Mr. Edgar
continu-
ed.
We grumbie
at
the
high cost
of liv-
ing.
But
our
difficulties in
this
respect
are
nothing
to
America’s.
Everyihing
there— production
prices
and
wages—-
have
reached
such
a high-skv
level that
the
drop
when
it
com-s
and
it
will
come-—will
be nothing
less
than
a crash.
The
predominance
which
Ameriea
ens
Joys
by
reason
of her
vast
natural
re-
sources
1s
a rapid.y
wasting
usset,
Some
day.
and
before
very long, Amer-
-Ica
will have
to come
to
us
for
ihe oil.
crpper
and
perhaps
‘the
iron
ore
she
needs,
fust
as
she
has
to
ecome
to
us
for
the
weol.
Thatis why
the
rvemoval
of
the
Treasury
resirictions
on the
export
of British eapital
abroad
iz £o enormous
ly important.—lbid.
@
&
Publication.
i1 is
hereby
made
k:own
that
Govern-
g
meni
has
transmitted
to
the
under-
signed
Sheriff
the
list
of
arrears
of
Ground
- and
Buwilding
Taxes
to
the
Colonia! Treasury
for the year
1918,
with
orders
v ievy
for said
taxes
if recript
for payment
of the
taxes
be
not
pr
duced
within 3 weeks from date.
The
branches
of
"‘The National
Bank
of
the
D.
W. I’in
Christiansted
and
Frederiksted
are
authorized
by
Govern-
ment
to receive
and
give receipt
for
the
taxes
every week-day
at
the Bank
from
9-11
o’clock
a.
m, and
from
1-3
o’ciock
p.m.
Christiansted’s
and
Frederiksted’s
Sheriff Office. Octoner,
6th.
1919,
1. NOLL.
LOST.
ONE
MILLER
TIRE
AND
TUBE
WITH SPARE RIM, size
31 x4.
Any
one
who
can
give information leading
to
recovery
will please
report
at this office.