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Show THE 4 CITIZEN House. Bullitt prepared a statement for the press based on his report; giving the' facts, which he submitted to the commission to be given out. No member of the commission was ready to take the responsibility and the matter was again referred to the President. He received it and decided not to make it public. As Mr. Bullitt states it : He thought he would rather keep it secret, in spite of the urg-inof the commissioners and he continued to adhere to that point of view, and my report has never been made public until this moment. This testimony, taken in conjunction with the recent information from Washington, reveals to us the Presidents physical and mental condition in Paris. Grappling with giant problems gigantically he was thrown into a state of nervous collapse ; he had agonizing headaches and the best he could do was to limit his. attention to one issue at a time. The witness was asked if he had any knowledge of the Presidents viewpoint on the report and replied: None whatever, except as it was reported to me by Colonel House. Colonel House, as I said before, reported to me that he thought in the first place that the President favored the peace proposal ; in the second place that the President could not turn his mind to it, because he was too occupied with Germany, and finally well, really, I have no idea what was in the Presidents mind. In such a humiliating crisis there was only one thing for Mr. Bullitt to do. In a letter to the President, resigning, he takes him to task, not understanding, of course, how sick Mr. Wilson had been. The letter is herewith submitted to our readers because, in a sense, it is a remarkable document. We find in it just those objections to the treaty which are taking such definite form in the public mind. They are clearly and concisely expressed by Mr. Bullitt : gs I have submitted today to the secretary of state my resignation as an assistant in the department of state, attache to the American commission to negotiate peace. I was one of millions who trusted confidently and implicity in your leadership and believed that you would take nothing less than a permanent peace based upon "unselfish and unbiased justice. But our governto of now ment has consented deliver the suffering peoples the world to new oppressions, subjections, and dismemberments a new century of war. And I can convince myself no longer that effective labor for a new world order is possible as a servant of this government. Russia, the acid test of good will, for me as for you, has not even been understood. Unjust decisions of the conference in regard to Shantung, the . is authorized so to declare and the cost of production is substituted in determining values. At a time when prices are high the unthinking are apt to welcome foreign goods, but even a moments thought will show that if industries are ruined by foreign goods sold at less than cost the . " ultimate sufferer is the American worker and consumer. The nature of the unfair competition at which the Smoot antidumping bill is aimed is not generally understood. It is that kind of unfair competition which is banned by many of our national and state laws. We do not permit it among ourselves if we can help it and there is no reason why we should permit foreign dealers to cripple our industries by methods which we consider crooked. What dumping means can be illustrated by a German commercial coup in South America shortly before the European war. American sewing machines were finding a market in the Latin Americas and the Germans became alarmed. They dispatched salesmen to undersell the Americans and, if necessary, to give away the sew-- , ing machines made in Germany. The American machines were driven from the field and then the German dealers raised the prices of their machines to a level that would permit them to make up all past losses and gain an exorbitant profit. Let us take another example. When our business men established the textile industry many years ago the manufacturers of Manchester, England, tried to kill the infant industry. They raised a huge slush fund for the purpose and sold cloths at prices far below those exacted of English buyers at home. The losses were recouped by making the English pay for the entire campaign, which, after a bitter struggle, ended in failure. Any competing nation which tries unfair tricks will find itself suddenly foiled by the Smoot bill if it becomes a law, as it almost certainly will. Crooked foreign merchandising will be met by a tariff rate which will stop it at once. low-pric- ed THE GREAT BOMB PLOT serious the menace of radicalism has become throughout land is indicated by the speeches of Senator Poindexter of Washington and Governor Goodrich of Indiana. The former warns us against the supine inaction which, in his opinion, has caused Tyrol, Thrace, Hungary, East Prussia, Danzig, the Saar Valley, and the abandonment of the principle of the freedom of the seas make new international real danger that the government will fall. The latter correctly conflicts certain. It is my conviction that the present League of Nations will be powerless to prevent these wars, and that the United States will be involved takes the view that the radical elements in the labor movement are in them by the obligations undertaken in the covenant of the league and in the on the point of gaining control of the American Federation and transspecial understanding with France. Therefore the duty of the government of the United States to its own people and to mankind is to refuse to sign or ratify forming it into a revolutionary faction and he sees the necessity of this unjust treaty, to refuse to guarantee its settlements by entering the League dealing with the new peril as vigorously as the American people did of Nations, to refuse to entangle the United States further by the understanding with the slavery issue and the issue created by capitalistic domination with France. most of the unjust settlements, and that you That you personally opposed in the closing years of the nineteenth century. is well known. Nevertheless it is under them pressure, only great accepted It is not clear just how serious is the plot run to earth at Gary, my conviction that if you had made your fight in the open, instead of behind of the with have carried would the world, closed doors, you you public opinion where the steel strike has taken on its most virulent form. which was yours; you would have been able to resist the pressure and might Indiana, have established the "new international order based upon broad and universal We have learned enough to know that the radicals were engaged in principles of right and justice of which you used to speak. I am sorry that a nationwide bomb plot and that the outrages directed against notable you did not fight our fight to the finish and that you had so little faith in the men a few months ago are directly traceable to the serpents den in millions of men, like myself, in every nation who had faith in you. Gary. While we need not share to the full the pessimism which afflicts SMOOTS PROTECTION BILL some of our most sincere and respected statesmen we cannot help an enormous amount of labor Senator Smoot has being impressed by the unusual conditions that exist all over our AFTER an bill which has been commended even by country. We have but to compare the unrest and tumult with other some of his democratic colleagues. It is intended to prevent our crises of our industrial history to discern alarming characteristics market from being flooded with goods which will ruin struggling in- never detected before. Thirty years ago anarchism flared into a conflagration centering dustries, especially the new industries. It will serve the purposes of protection until such time as a general tariff law can be devised and at Chicago and culminated in an outrage which resulted in the death of many policemen engaged in dealing with rioters. The leaders were passed to meet revolutionized conditions. The work necessary to perfect the measure may be realized when tried, several were executed, one committed suicide and some were it is stated that the bill is largely devoted to definitions to fix the sentenced to terms in prison. Among those who were executed was Parsons, editor of an anforeign market value and other terms so as to determine whether products are being dumped in this country at less than the cost of archistic paper, whose wife, we believe, still lives and is regarded production in the country of origin. Thus foreign market value at the industrial revolutionaries as a sort of red saint. We mention Parthe place of production is declared to be the average price within a sons because the construction of the law in his case is very apt to period to be determined by the Tariff Commission at which the same serve as a precedent should anarchy again strike out boldly in an merchandise is sold in the country of production. In the absence of Attempt to destroy the government. Our memory, no doubt, is somewhat at fault, but we believe that guch a standard or where the price is less than cost, the commission anti-dumpi- HOW ng -- |