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Show 'A n THE CITIZEN 4 All the valuable possessions of Germany and Turkey went to France and England. This country was most graciously offered the red-hhandle of the mandate poker when it was offered authority over Armenia and the municipal district of Constantinople. These territories were so restricted under the treaty that acceptance of conr trol over them would have imposed heavy obligations, with any op-portunity to reap direct or indirect benefit left out, either through omission or design. Yet President Wilson urged the senate to undertake the onerous responsibilities imposed under this mandate. To the preserve order in the territory assigned us would have required maintenance of an army of occupation of fifty thousand men at an estimated cost of a quarter of a billion dollars annually. Moreover the permanent presence of such an American army in the most danthe gerous spot in Europe would have brought this country within constant shadow of war. Fortunate was this nation in the fact that this proposal of President Wilson was rejected and that the election results of 1920 gave ot t the assurance that never again will the people of the United State be asked to underwrite the ambitions of predatory nations on such wholesale plan, or to reverse the traditions and ideals pf this republ ie by pledging its young manhood to the endless task of policing a iff an war zones of continental Europe. Backed by a spirit of hope the nations will soon sit downt n confer across a table, face to face, man to man, on the great blem of securing and maintaining lasting peace for the world, witl no out mandates or any of the other highly fantastical and idealist mi he entanglements provided for in the League of Nations, entering the computation if the agenda as outlined by President Harding ai PI Secretary Hughes i$ adhered to. It may take several months the conferees to complete their work. It may mean many misunde ice si standings, the surmounting of many difficulties, but in the end tl r whole world hopes for a settlement which will at least, make it mo difficult for nations to fly at each others throats whenever they di ear )S . :; agree. Jn i i i INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS PATERNALISM the policy of getting out of business and letting individual resourc have full swing. With the si am fulness and independent gle exception of the railroads the result has been a vindication of t is policy of individualism as contrasted with the policy of pamperh dei ley paternalism. This country has practiced practical has emphasized the doctrine of nationality. Instead of .looking to e ii League of Nations, or other outside influences to solve its probles and thereby running the risk of becoming dependent upon such don w ful influences, the United States has unequivocally declared for in Ollll I vidualism and is fast winning its way back to a normal conditi v Recognizing that communism among nations has the same deadeni sound economy. effect as communism among individuals, this country has forged inCompared with any European nation the United States is the front by keeping out of any international communistic assoc one ; wages are lower are costs in ; off better living respect every finitely tion ; thus preserving its true nationality and its economic virility ilro more is. business and active more are industries generally higher; otei as well. for Take basis. stability sounder on a and example decidedly prosperous And this attitude of the United States has not prevented it fi England, where, although conditions are admittedly better than in ner continental Europe, the situation, nevertheless, is most critical. Dedoing its full share in the process of reconstructing a war devasta Ii his in said address Yorktown,! at home As world. President of at markets her invasion and abroad of markets her Harding pression trai have almost brought about the complete collapse of British industry. ginia, there must be among the nations, but this m lich contrib Englands unemployed army is now officially estimated at 1,600,000, be accomplished by each of them in its own peculiar way anci which is proportionately much greater than the estimated number of ing to the common good, progress and advancement of mankii intematio unemployed in this country. England has attempted to cure the It is not necessary that this country shall belong to any in order that it may fn problem of unemployment by the payment of government subsidies communistic form of to her idle workers. Official figures, just made public, reveal the its duty to civilization. It is advisable on the eve of the conference to discuss limitat amazing fact that during the past year 54 per cent of her population received some form of government hand-out- s, costing the national of armaments to keep the foregoing facts in mind. There is abn It treasure nearly two billion in cold cash, which is equivalent to $100 ant evidence that a tremendous drive will be made during that tion taxation for every English family. But instead of curing, or even ference to commit this nation in some way to the Wilson League mis relieving the situation, it only succeeded in aggrevating it. Few want Nations. Nothing but a vigilant, militant public sentiment, yi? Pr. re to work so long as they can draw unemployment pensions or doles spe ously expressed, similar in unanimity and force to the solemn from the public money-boendum of the fall of 1920, will successfully combat and counter-thi- ffam effort. The people must be constantly upon guard; their m is or One evil always begets another and in an attempt to assist her vl iole .sorely pressed industries, sustain taxation incident to all she is doing pendence is at stake and their whole scheme of government, sue! Inflic for the unemployed, and to help hold her own in the foreign marguarantees to them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Sc kets, the British government now contemplates subsidizing commerce they have known for the past 140 years, will again hang-fbe and all business effort. The wiser ones are said to be protesting balance. kno against this attempt to lift the country out of the slough of industrial the despondency, by tugging at its own boot straps, but without noticetion; EXPLAINED IN FULL. able effect. becoming more and more apparent that developments in the world are conspiring to prove the wisdom of the policies of the Republican administration. From the very outset President Harding and his advisors have turned a deaf ear to all propositions which smacked of state socialism, or had for their logical end the invasion by the government of the field of private enterprise and initiative. As a direct result this country has traveled farther on the road back to normalcy than any other nation which participated in the world war, and the manner of its journeying has been in strict observance of the set rules of It .1 ii 1 i is self-respe- ct self-relian- ce, e co-operat- ion super-governme- I:- i. r ! nt s x. l 11 And what is happening in England is also taking place in continental Europe. In Switzerland, the home of the League of Nations, unemployment is seven times worse than it was a year ago. The Swiss government is paying 10,000,000 francs a month in unemployment pensions, with the certainty that this sum must be increased. Here, too, commerce and industry are asking that they be subsidized in order to assist them to carry the burden of subsidizing the unemployed. Only in the United States has the central government pursued Bu Business men who are squirming under taxation ef( burdens read with keen interest the following letter sent to an English redutf by one of its customers, explaining why he was unable to overdraft. It was embodied in an address by Harry Coc, vicef dent of the Anglo and London Paris National bank, San Franc Here is the letter : Dear Sir : For the following reasons I regret being ufl reduce my overdraft. I have been held up, held down, sandW ce to ke s! of e an Cal ' coi |