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Show THE CITIZEN r and practiced disarmament, while the This principle holds good in national league of nations still is debating it. life. Those who would neglect Amer- The United States has gone fur-- icas welfare, sacrifice her national ther to suppress the evil of the use ism and plunge her in the quarrels of drugs than any other civilized na- - of Europe in order to earn an empty tion, and has gone further than the reputation of being concerned in up- league of nations in this regard. If lifting humankind, are doing them the league of nations would take the selves, their neighbors, their coun- action which the United States has try, the cause of peace and humanity urged, the evil would be practically itself, a very poor service. wiped out. Purely selfish reasons, based upon inordinate profits, have FRANCE AND ENGLAND GIVEN IMMENSE WEALTH FROM WAR prevented the league of nations from doing this up to this writing. The United States has gone fur- - World War Cost United States More Than Any of the European ther in the suppression of the white Countries Expended. traffic than any other nation. If the league of nations would do as much for the suppression of the white Washington, Sept. 15. (Special traffic as the United States, it correspondence). The Paris Temps, would be farther along in that moral organ of the French gov- warfare than it now. is. emment, makes an interesting sug- In brief, is it moral leadership gestion for the settlement of the rep- which Europe wants of America? arations and allied debts questions. That leadership is now being furnish- - It proposes that the world court con- ed, but, sad to relate, is not being sider this proposition: When nations followed. .While the United States have been engaged. in a victorious acts, the league of nations has con- - war for a common cause, and those tented itself passing wearisome reso- - which have suffered the most dam- lutions and engaging in interminable ages are unable to collect full indem- investigations. nity from the aggressor, those na- Those who insist that we are not tions which retained or increased doing our share in the promotion of their wealth as a result of the strug- world peace or in helping Europe, gle, should contribute to the damaged have never yet specified the partic- - nations an amount equal to the dif- ular thing they would have done that ference between the indemnity col- not being done. lected and that demanded. The suggestion is intended as an Until the critics of the present pol- icy of this country under the Re- - indirect thrust at the United States, publican party point out in what par- - and is another development in the ticular that policy is operating to the propaganda for the can- detriment of Europe, their criticism cellation of the allied debt to this cannot be seriously entertained. country. Probably every subject of In conclusion; there is a class of an allied nation believes that the people, well meaning but impractical, United States, of all the countries who hold we should become a knight-- opposed to Germany, emerged from errant and join the league of nations the war richer than when it entered. in order to show our good fel- - In the sale of munitions they are conlowship. This argument makes no vinced that American citizens became appeal to the sober thinking, home- - richer, while they were made poorer, woman. It and that their governments were loving and is improvident, to say the least, for brought to the verge of bankruptcy, the head of the family to neglect his while the United States had to call on only a small fraction of its resources. own, in order to earn the reputation In all the outpourings of the debt of being a good fellow. In the ma- jority of cases it. is also destructive cancellationists, never a word is said to home ideals, home influences and of the assets accumulated by Great right living. Neighborhood meddling Britain and France as a result of the never caused anything but neighbor- - war, and no attempt is made to bal- ance them against the war costs of hood quarrels, discontented homes and those countries. When that is hon- lower standards all around. . 0 semi-offici- al ever-prese- nt - home-buildi- ng ' 7 estly done it is likely that the United States will be found to have sustain- ed a net loss greater than either of those nations, and, if the suggestion of the Temps is acted upon, they would be required to pay us an amount beyond what they owe us on account of loans received, With no attempt to assign them a as- money value, the new after-wa- r sets of Great Britain and France may Why Lots of People HUNT . MARABELLE Because Marabelles Is the place to get first class tailoring, cleaning and repair work. Time for you to start to 78 WB6T FOURTH 80UTH be summed up as follows: The Mysterious Address 1. Former German colonies in for your work. 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