Abstract

The Profits of War

The article discusses the U.S. preparedness measure against war. The aim of the U.S. War Department is to contract in advance for thousands of articles either directly or indirectly useful in case of war. No outsider can say how many signed contracts in pursuance of this aim are now filed in vaults of the War Department at Washington. It is known that the whole country has been districted and that contracts have been made to furnish the seven supply branches of the army. And although the War Department has not seen fit to take either the U.S. Congress or the American people into its confidence, in the parceling out of valuable concessions to prospective purveyors of the nation for the next war the War Department has acted upon the advice of big business men and of the National Association of Manufacturers.