| Show MUST U 8 TAK TAX PAY FOR foit eunora 9 WART want CLIPPED COMMENT mery american citizen la is entity cd ed to his own opinion on the subject ot of suspending pending fue reducing or canceling cancel lne the debts owed the united states government by european countries but it Is equally the privilege of every american citizen know what it la Is all about before forming a hasty conclusion on the ono one thing la Is now generally understood that was not apparent the time the suspensions of pay ments were first suggested last turn surn tier mer and lauded as a means of end ing the depression the belated die is I 1 that international bank era loaned large euma sums of money to foreign countries following the world war and that payments ot of principal and interest arp are delayed and under tinder present conditions en dager us u now it the amerian goer ment excuses payments reduces the debts or cancels them entirely it will be easier and surer for the international bankers to make their collections hence when Is advised it Is well ell to remember that the financiers are arcing no cancellation ot of the debts due them they wart want their money in full cancellation cover only debts due dite our government it Is well to remember too that there can be no euch such thing as cancellation cel lation of these debts they are obligations of the people of foreign countries contracted by their governments ern ments they tire dup due our government ern ment and it if they arc are not riot paid by the foreign debtors they must be paid with ith interest by the taxpayers of america we yet 0 e 17 17 C 0 of our expense ot of the war wo we arc are for it c every ery hour of our lives we haie already reduced the eni f mounts wv me loaned lo 10 oilier other during the nr or when we have paid what hat we yet owe oe and then tax our selves again to pay our government to enable it to cancel the foreign debts we me will va ill come pretty near pay for the world war hural rural new yorker |
