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Show THE CITIZEN WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS. Out of apparent chaos in Europe has come the grave prospects of volcanic invasion of the German Ruhr valley by the French. The leavage shown between British and French proposals at the Paris conference was a distinct disappointment to those internationally inclined souls who sought a more generous attitude for a settlement of the ills that afflict that sorely troubled continent. So long, however, as orthodox nationalisms and allied special interests prevail the way to an entente cordiale will remain blocked. To America there is no necessity to discriminate between the viewpoint of the British or the. French ; both provide for the utmost protection of these nationalisms and special interests and only a dullard would insist that it is our duty to assist in the maintenance of either. What America should realize and ponder over by this time, is that no statesman, politician or business man of the allied nations has shown how any German reparations, above 25,000,000,000 gold marks, can be collected without transferring the penalties of the late war to this country. What is known as the Class A, B and C bond provisions of the Versailles treaty, are an arrangement of the 132,000,000,000 gold marks penalties into Class A of 12,000,000,000 gold marks, which is the obvious collectable amount; the Class B issue of 38,000,000,000 gold marks which covers possible deliveries in kind and other allowances and the Class C, or 82,000,000,000 billion gold marks which represent the combined allied debts. international American assured the An adle-pateFrench that these Class C bonds could be disposed of in this country and it is not surprising that the imperialistic satellites of Europe cannot relinquish this dream after nearly nine months of negative results. There is no prospect or possibility of a compromise unless these allied interests can secure equivalent compensation for what they relinquish directly to the Germans. And there is no way, so far as anyone of the interested parties have been able to show, how any grandiose reparations can be collected from a defeated and demoralized enemy, who set out to deliberately impoverish herself and achieved a result as startling to said enemy as to the rest of the world. It is the innocent, prosperous nation that pays such penalties. The United States actually paid the costs of the Franco-Prus-sia- n war and will pay most of those of the World war providing she remains prosperous and deals in honest money. This country will pay the war debt in purchasing foreign made goods including contraband liquors in the vast sum the transplanted nationals of nations send home every week day in every year- in the annual waste and profligacy of the wealthy American tourist in payments of fines and bonuses to foreign register ships to transport our merchandise across the seas and in all and divers ways in which Europe knows so well how to make us pay. The collection of the eleven billion dollars due this country from allied nations and the determination of any German reparations above the 25,000,000,000 gold marks, is the immediate and vital concern of the peoples of this nation. They are the ones who are to and pay and not the blantant international bankers, propagandists, who are so active and vociferous in offering to give away money which does not belong to them. It is our business to tell these creditors how they shall use this money,, and how they shall pay, and this we think is the attitude of all our great statesmen, despite the cheap and vainglorious manner and international bankers herald their inconin which sistency and resent their entry into affairs they had delegated to their own malodorous camp. It seems that the power represented in the allied debts is the means by which pseudo-Frenc- h Napoleons may be made to act like and the influence of British dominsane men rather than war-goions combined with that of the British Labor party could and can control the activities of the select and limited special interests 'of the British Empire, providing there is sought a more realistic understanding between this country and these British forces. semi-offici- al d, old-wor- ld - 0 pro-league- pro-league- $ rs ds rs 5 Using the American farmer as a new factor in the propaganda efforts of these international interests shouting the flase doctrine of the American farmers' absolute reliance on foreign exports for prosperity is only important until said farmers finally realize that it is paper-mone- y values and not allied debts that interfere with the inlarger export trade movements, and that the ternational bankers and foreign statesmen want America to, somewhich Europe has issued in carhow, guarantee this paper-mone- y load lots. The real business before the peoples of this country, is the settlement of the allied debt in their interest and not in the interest of Europe. They must be vigilant; the arch propagandist is still at work, and he is at Washington. pro-league- ' rs, . THE IMMIGRATION SHIBBOLETH. Big interests in the east are clamoring for the removal of restrictions on immigration. Common labor is scarce, they say, and This they want to import cheap foreign labor to aid industry. assertion is becoming most absurd and threadbare ! What the predatory interests really want is to deflate the common laborer to the point where he will have to literally beg for work and take any hand-othat the employer of such labor chooses to give. What they also wanted was a high tariff to protect their commodities in the home market and at the same time remove the barriers which give equal protection, to the working man. They wanted it all one way and hope to frighten enough citizen into the delirium of doubt over an imaginary industrial debacle to get the immigration bars let down. The howl for more immigration is decidedly Our war experience taught that the traditional melting pot had ceased to function for the sufficient reason that we had taken on foreign-bor- n people faster than they could be educated or assimilated. Hence the restrictions upon the influx of foreigners to our shores. When the flood of cheap and uneducated labor ceased it automatically created a demand for increased wages and a partial return to American standards of living. This was a condition that the big interests did. not relish and do not want today. American laborers are accustomed to and entitled to higher wages than Europeans and Asiatics, but the big employer does not think so. Many of our foreign-bor- n citizenry have risen to the high standard of the American workman, and they, too, demand higher wages and a chance to function as Americans, which is indubitably their right. There was formerly a continuous stream of foreign workers flowing to this country which was entirely detrimental to the American workman and the naturalized foreign-bor- n laborer, which kept down wages and the living standards to the equivalent ot standards. American labor must demand that the present restrictions be maintained and even rendered more stringent, because today many foreigners come for the premeditated purpose of violating our prohibition laws. They come not to seek work at low wages to help the interests grow richer; but to get rich, themselves, through the process of bootlegging and law evasion. There are plenty of workers already in America to take care of all work that is offered at fair wages. Evidently these big interests do not believe in American standards and a living wage or they would hire these men and spread prosperity around. ut un-Americ- an. old-wor- ld . Back in 1901 the average baby born in America could be expected to live 49 years and three months. Today the average baby should attain the ripe old age of 65 years. Perhaps this moonshine stuff isnt so bad after all. The name Workers Party under which the Communists are now camouflaging their international machinations, is not only a misnomer it is the bunk! The only work its members do is distinctly destructive rather than constructive, and envisions a bloody revolution similar to that pulled in Russia. |