Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-03 | Page 4 | Sacrificing for Europe

i i. Let ns us have bave faith that right makes might and 1 I In fn that faith let us t to tho the end dare to U do our duty Las as we understand it it jt Lincoln Sacrificing for Europe f ML t z V T X every part of ot the United States Slates a 3 decline in prices I The enlarging circle has left ft f is the thc hope of the public v o general benefits In places it if has hs h s produced new burdens barj bur bar j lens dens and struggles the direct result of abnormal profits taken by In the unscrupulous distributor or manufacturer The he time is arriving when a halt i is to be he called we must economic and nd industrial in in- basis laSiS of stability in our go back to a life The first step in the establishment of stability r i i is a sane conduct of European relief AVe We y cannot drain the country of supplies n add athi e expect prices to tum tumble le Big 4 interests will wiil reap handsome returns from the European r i credits proposed in Congress No objection would d be offered if the thc step did id not involve ol new burdens for the public at nt large but no protection is afforded the man f who does n not mit t share directly in the profits i The country wins nothing b by adding new profits to the thc earnings laming of the big interests which naturally reap the benefits of the European credits As a n matter of and demand are still fact the reverse is true tnie Supply vital factors in n the thc life of the world When lIen American money is iS taken take to deplete American supplies for the ad- ad d- d of Europe our own economic fabric is damaged damaged damn dam dam- n aged cd and endangered A shortage is is' ism m automatically created which is bound to bo ho felt in still higher prices 1 L- L Higher pric pricks prices s demand higher wages as has been dem- dem ons h by the lie last fc y fe years ears But all aU American incomes in- in comes do not keep keel pace with the thc race Certain organ organ- 4 lines follow the enlarging circle but ut ill ut that arc not organized wages fail fait to keep up with increasing increasing in in- creasing costs of living li ng There is a limit to the tolerance tolerance toler toler- ance of this class which must be recognized by the g gova gov gov- c. c The country can prosper only as its people as asa a a a 3 a whole prosper and if we arc are fo continue enlarging c the circle circe we are arc in duty bound to to provide pro defensive c measures meas incas ures for working men regardless of ot their organization affiliations r It is this class which will be he called upon to bear ear the brunt of the lie increased l earnings e falling allin to bi big interests T C MC i t r F f th r tt n nn nf loans n to to Europe n V Xo doubt Europe Euro is in a critical period of her history But Hut we wc must Joust also recognize and that soon that the s sn- sn called middle class o of America is not traveling a path of ro roses rosos ps Much Macli has 1133 been taken out ont of its hide in the past two years and no noW no that the thc war is over o it has a a. right to expect a tl revision in prices which will make the cost of living within the range of the income A continued f drain Irain on the supplies and resources of the United States 31 as financed by the sacrifices of the American public is fraught ht with many dangers to the republic