Money in War

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 6, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 26.

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CHEN HUAN CHANG — © Underwood & Underwood CHEN HUAN CHANG

THE dispatches from New York say that J. P. Morgan and Company have arranged a loan to France of $50,000,000, to be “used by the French government for payment here of its heavy commercial obligations incurred by the purchase of war supplies and foodstuffs.”

The great commercial advantage that a few individuals are getting out of this war is reaching into the hundreds of millions; and if the commercial side of the war could be suddenly eliminated, the war would collapse and come to an end almost immediately. Commerce and greed are at the foundation of most wars; and commerce and greed, according to Paul’s prophecy, were to be so marked in the last days that they would make the times perilous. Some men seem to be so constituted that they are willing that many other people should be killed if they are only allowed to profit thereby financially.