The German people’s Property in the great war: A by Dr. J. Jastrow (auth.) PDF

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Lastly, we would ask, What has become of the policy of which we used to hear so much when our prospects of victory were not very bright, namely the extreme desirability of wresting from Germany the trades which she won from ourselves and others before she rushed into war? Have we come to despise trade now that we are victors? " 48 ourselves. As a means of exciting fear, the threat would be ever present: "if you do not show yourself willing, I shall use force", and so this method can make one willing.

The difficulty here is that we are completely under the influence of the conception that the purpose of figures is just to give exact information. When, in a certain case, figures have been used and it is afterward stated that these figures are meant to represent actual conditions only approximately, this is looked upon as a kind of excuse post facto. But here we have an error in reasoning. It is true, indeed, that the purpose of figures is to render a statement clearer than mere verbal description can do.

S utterly excluded. Ither hand accepted that the fall in prices which is impending, with the unavoidable commotion, which it will cause in our economic life, will bring new depreciations in places not yet thought of. But even if the changes in the people's property had not appeared, the figures would form no foundation for the calculation of a war contribution. The proof that those fiegures were never meant in the sense of furnishing an instantaneous picture of the property situation, is valid, not only for the purpose of showing the internal condition which I had in mind, but for every other purpose especially for the question of a war contribution.

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