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Show V THE CITIZEN 6 farms if compelled to take a loss even for one year, and others would not want to stay. In war times the corporation loaned money to European countries so that they might buy war materials here. Perhaps the process can be copied now. A number of the European countries are anxious to get our cotton and wool for manufacturing purposes. They can pay for part in cash, but they need credit on the rest until they can sell their manufactured goods. In such a case the war finance corporation should be able to make the proper arrangements. In fact, the corporation was negotiating with Czecho-Slovakin just such a case when Secretary Houston ordered it to stop work. And it was he who advised President Wilson to veto the resolution reviving the corporation. Much will depend, of course, on the course pursued by the members of the corporation appointed by President Wilson, but whatever eventuates, the Republicans will be comforted by the thought that they did all they could to meet a crisis that had to be met quickly ia if at all. BRITISH CONTROL OF CABLES We wonder whether the average American can possess his soul in patience after reading the testimony of Newcomb Carlton, president of the Wstern Union, regarding the British governments practice of submitting all cable messages from the United States, official messages included, to the English secret service. Will he not let his memory run back to the days when the thirteen colonies were dependencies of Great Britain and chafed under English restrictions until their patience was exhausted and they rebelled? In an obvious attempt to shield the British government Mr. Carlton says he has reason to believe that, although our governments official messages are turned over to the British secret service, they are not inspected. We are sure that Mr. Carlton must see the absurdity, of his confidence. What reason would there be for turning over the official messages if they wrere not read? Inspection of our messages during the war was admitted by the London government when some of our business men complained that they had lost contracts with Danish firms because information in the messages was turned over to rival British concerns. While admitting the censorship the British government denied that the information had been conveyed to private companies. The bitter fact cannot be sweetened by the honeyed words of Mr .Carlton. And the fact is that all American cable messages are turned over by the Western Union to the British secret service. At any time the British government can avail itself of our governmental or trade secrets and can act accordingly. Control of its own communications, is an element of a governments sovereignty. To the extent that our official messages are controlled by the British government we are a dependency of Great the European continent from the United States the extent of our dependency in this respect is manifest. Our immediate opportunity of throwing off this limitation on our sovereignty is to gain possession of the German cable which Great Britain seized in war time and which our government claims as its legitimate compensation. A curious feature of the contest between our government and the Western Union is that the cable company quietly submits to British control while employing secret maneuvers and overt acts to circumvent the American government. It may be due to the weakness of our government in its past dealings with the cable question or it may be due to the fact that the Western Union would suffer immense losses unless it obeyed every order and acquiesced in every wish, express or implied, of the government at London. but there must arise a suspicion that the proclaimed purpose, .; something more subtle. ' It is said that the German-Americawill claim the cabins tion on the ground that they swung the victory to Harding.. t might well have a racial competitor for cabinet honors, for Chira White of the Democratic organization, on the morning after ebu ic ascribed the victory to the desertion of Cox by It is not surprising that George Sylvester Vierick shcH the first to revive the hyphenated issue. During the war he aha versification for politics and conducted a journal which defend sinking of the Lusitania and condoned all of the plots to disoiat American industry by strikes and acts of violence. We susp this Teutonic DAnnunzio with apologies to the crazy bard cm is the head of the movement and modestly suggested his head the list of cabinet possibilities. qa The list is not only respectable but imposing. It contaT names of noted scientists, scholars and politicians. If its on! pose were to show what the people of German birth and extjre have contributed to our civilization it would deserve commer But it has a political connotation that must be offensive tc m who are just Americans. em It is true that in our campaigns before the war especia municipal campaigns we were wont to name tickets that resj the map of Europe and, no doubt, tha--t practice has been revivas will continue to receive the support of astute politicians. Thah-sidit unavoidable, however objectionable. But, after atm quite a different practice from that which Viereck seeks to es He would establish the precedent of naming a cabinet offic recognition of hyphenism. So far we have escaped the c? gu hei and there is no reason for inviting it now. On the contrary, it should be, and we believe it is, the Jte( most Germans in this country to avoid raising such an i national politics. In this case we should assume a virtue tho1 have it not. Even though we allow racial issues to figure paigns we should be wise and patriotic enough not to ask a pr ra of the United States to give official sanction to our political lab We trust that George Sylvester Viereck will have a lcns and a happy one and that he will grow in wisdom and underst He was a faithful defender of William Hohenzollern and, if prc not mistaken, announced his belief in the doctrine that kings ciisa their authority direct from God, and we think it rather too eset him to announce his conversion to popular government. In? r 81 trving to run our presidents he should return to the Muses. ns Irish-Amer- ; er SIMPLE MANS FORGIVENESS Z pie schc Once in a while a simple man utters a sentiment th: re with the music of divinity. James C. Callahan, mining mitac and old-tiprospector, probably could not quote many f from the Bible. Perhaps the grand organ harmonies of thing Hi hets and the sublime simplicities of the sermon on the niff not as familiar to him as they should be to all of us, but forgives he does it in language that must appeal to the lor me RETURN OF POET VIERECK Ma cverv Christian. Callahan had been robbed of $353,000 by his, brokers, his closest friends. When one of them confessed the othf himself just as the police were about to enter his home ";i0ti ros was with his wife and children. Arriving in Spokane late at night from his cabin where alone near Wallace, Idaho, Callahan heard the news. He think of the lost riches, but of his lost friend, and he said.j 0I If the boys had come to me and laid the cards on thclnj would have said, Forget it boys, rather than to have arty commit suicide for me. I could not find it in my heart to man as John Milholland has judged himself. l0 n What secret purposes the spectacular George Sylvester Vicrcck and his associates may have in demanding that a German-America- n be given a place in Hardings cabinet it is unnecessary to discuss, ore The robber who stole $4,500 from a Salt Lake bank ia th n have emerged from the institution with a sarcastic smile, I ttho lie was just beginning to think of the police. J |