For two years England has been pouring ofut fighting men, says' NW York Life. She has sent <jut enough to have had nearly two million casualties; eha is credited now with two million soldiers in France, and with thres million more at home or elsewhere, and more making. And all the while she has been making muni tipns in enormous and increasing quantities, building new -slaps all the 'time, and raising and distribut: ing billion after billion i>f pounds sterling to be put where they wquld do the most good. "Clearly this bresed of men that planted the United States has not yet to seed."
An engineer who attempted to design a bridge in defiance of the law of gravity would be laughed at by the whole world; but a politician who pretends that he cap design a schejne for lowering food prices in defiance of the law of supply and' demand is applauded by the House of Commons and by threequarters of the nation, says the Editor of the Edinburgh Review.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 101, 28 April 1917, Page 13
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