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Show THE CITIZEN already carrying more than it well could carry in paying the debt to America. Therefore. Mr. Mellons statement that Great Britain would soon be collecting more than enough from the rest of Europe to pay its debt to America, created a decidedly painful impression in certain European capitals indicating as it did that so far as collectors were concerned there are others. The Brit-- ; ish reply to Secretary Mellon was therefore in a great measure intended for European consumption.1, It is of course easy for Gerat Britain to tell the rest of Eu-- ; rope that it will cut down the amount of its collections on the war debt whenever Uncle Sam will cut down the British war debt in a similar amount. For such a procedure would cost Great Britain nothing. Since Great Britain is both debtor and creditor every slice made on the debts both ways costs her nothing. In other words if Britain generously agrees to cut Frances debt to her a hundred million if Uncle Sam will cut the British debt a hundred million, Great Britain is just as welPoff as she was before. This is like taking money from one pocket and putting it in the other. if But with Uncle Sam it is different. Theuhdred million Uncle Sam theoretically cuts from the B ritish jdebf will have to be paid by American taxpayers, because thereis riobody else to whom we can pass it on. It is plain to be seen therefore that any general debt slashing means an additional burden on the American taxpayer and relief for the rest of the world. Of course nobody will blame John Bull for trying to keep the rest of Europe in a good humor, even at the extent of a little financial applesauce. That is good British dipbmacy, and good diplomacy is the only kind of British keep in stock, and rightly so, as the British are not internationalists domestically and the British government sees that its first duty is to look after the interests of the British people. The American administration as at present constituted, rightly perceives that its real duty is to look after the interests of Americans first. The only high unpleasant feature is that there are a lot of brows in America who applaud Britain for looking after British interests and condemn Uncle Sam for looking after American interests on the mistaken theory that he ought to provide swaddling clothes for all the rest of the world. 11 , ure, did they fully realize that they had nearly been snared tv ' huge octupus. Friends of the bill gave notice when it was vetoed that thi would return at the next session of congress, but of late very tie has been said or heard of any such proposed legislation. The defeated measure discriminated definitely against m ducts which make up what has been universally considered a ni gram of safe farming. The bill upheld an ideal the men of Ai erican farming who grew cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco wheat, with all other products and farmers left out in the col, The products named were to be given special favors at thee pense of the farmer who had foiled for many years to bnildt constructive farming. Thousands of farmers were to be pem ized because the bill singled out a few products, chiefly section upon which the prices were to be raised. If the billwas a t: farm relief measure, why did it leave out the producers of cattle, sheep, dairy products, poultry products, potatoes, h fruit, vegetables, oats, barley, rye, flax and the many other iii 1 I portant agricultural products? So far as the farmers as a whole are concerned, the measni was absolutely not for them. It was for a favored few, and tl President must be complimented for his just stand in the matte The bill provided specifically for the payment by the federf board of all losses, costs, and charges of packers, millers, cotto spinners, or other processors who were operating under contrai with the board. It contemplated that the packers could be con missioned by the government to. buy hogs enough to create near scarcity in; this country, slaughter the hogs, sell the poi products abroad at a loss, and have their , losses, costs, charges made good out of the pockets of farm taxpayers. Th millers would be similarly commissioned to operate in wheat o corn and have their losses, costs, and charges paid by farm taj payers. It seems almost increditable that the producers of ho$ corn, wheat, rice, tobacco, and cotton should be offered a schem of legislative relief in which the only persons who are guarantee a profit are the exporters, packers, millers, cotton spinners an other processors.. It is roughly estimated that in this country there are 4,00 millers, over 1,000 meat packing plants, and about 1,000 actw spinners. No one can say definitely after reading the bi whether each of these concerns would be entitled to receive a con tract with the government. Certainly no independent concer SAVING MONEY could continue in business without one. Each of the agencie a contract the efficient and inefficient alike wouli holding is a more than of the second Liberty loan bonds The call be reimbursed for all their losses, costs, and charges. bold gesture on the part of the government. It means a saving made a hit with the people when he killed that sel Coolidge to the government of millions of dollars of interest, and in turn fish bill. Had the bill passed, living prices would have advance! a saving to the taxpayers of the country, out of whose pockets at least 25 cent. The farmers would have been held when per the government must have taken the interest. they have always been held, while the middle man would hav The decision of the Secretary of the Treasury to call the slept in a field of clover. bonds of the second Liberty loan is all the more significant in The audacity of introducing such discriminatory legislate view of the fact that the bonds of the third Liberty loan, and expect the people to stand for it is beyond the comprelien Mr. mature November 15, 1928, and must be paid. sion of the average thinking man. Mellon, it is apparent, believes that the Treasury department cannot only handle successfully the refunding of the third LibLOAFING MINDS can interim it a in loan and half the but a that hence, erty year deal effectually with the second Liberty loan. The confidence Government ownership is the product of loafing minds anq of the Secretary of the Treasury doubtless will be reflected in loitering ambitions, says Henry Swift Ives, vice president a the attitude of the American business world. Washington Star. the Casualty Information Clearing House, Chicago. ItistN indolent offspring of the static mind, and its ancestry may DISCRIMINATION traced back through a long line of dawdling political soothsay The effort of Congress to establish a federal farm board ers. As a theory it lacks imagination, originality, inspiration to aid in the orderly marketing and in the control and and romance. As an actuality it is a stupid, dull, languor1 disposition of the surplus of agricultural commodities, came to a method of carrying on the work of the world. It is tiie substitsudden halt when this unconstitutional bill came up to President ution. of government deficits for private profits. It is the drag w Coolidge for his signature. He vetoed it in the face of much op- ging brake on individual enterprise and a stubborn harrier position, favorable propaganda having been circulated for many industiral progress. It is the Santa Claus idea of governmen months previous. heralded by political1 sleigh-be- ll ringers. The people had been told only one side of the story, but as & loaning Presinot will Veterans The Bureau until at of woke and a them begin they gradually Washington majority up, measto rect veterans on their bonus certificates on April 1. dent Coolidge boldly set forth the unequal qualities of the , . so-call- ed . $2,-000,000,0- 00, W so-call- ed i |