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Show thanked God for America when her back was to the wall. Now it begins to look as if she thinks she does not need to pay even her honest debts; and when travelling Lord-worshipping Americans have the impertinte-ence impertinte-ence to "apologize" for our President because he takes a stand for his own people it is time to let the world and to let the President know where Americans stand. Only a short time ago the press was filled with smashing stories announcing an-nouncing that France had finally de- right away to construct a supernat-uraldyne supernat-uraldyne receiving set. There is no good reason to believe that political Europe craves Ameri- t can leadership or directions except to the feed trough or treasure chest, there is no more dangerous undertaking under-taking in a household or in the family fam-ily of nations than an attempt at the leadership from the out side. their breasts decorated with a red. ribbon and suiiie tinpot cross that j provides an ui'en :-esaine to circles of ; the elite. j Undoubtedly President Cuulidg3l land Secretary .Mellon are disguste.l with this brand of Amei icanism. j France has not paid her debt of billions to America. France has not paid even the inter- est on the money. 1 Either France must pay this debt j or the American taxpayers must pay ; it. I It is absurd to talk poverty in con-I con-I nection with our sister republic. She ! seems to have enough money to main- tain the greatest military machine ever known in the history of the world, a machine that stands today as a menace to the peace of Europe. The fact is, that France is fattening on thhe spoils of war more than four hundred thousands of miles of awarded territory, Alsace-Lorraine, and the untold wealth of the Saar i.Valley Coal Fields, every cent of which was won for her by American ' blood and the outpouring of the American Am-erican treasure. While American boys died to save France, the Frenchmen collected toll for the very soil in which the American Amer-ican dead were laid to rest. France cided to pay her debt to America. ' There was general rejoicing through- out the land. It took only a few ', weeks however, to find out that this ' was palpable propaganda and to put out from the other side to prepare ) the American mind to form another ' flotation of still another huge French bond issue. ' When the real Americans who read ' this newspaper come to sense the ac- tual facts in connection with this sit- '. uation, and when they, with the other twenty millions of Americans who will read this article in other newspapers news-papers write to the president expressing expres-sing their views, it might be well for them to openly protest against any American buying a single bond issue by any foreign nation that owes us . any money until such time as some ..'satisfactory ferrangement Jhas faeen made for the repaying of the debt. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ON COLLECTION OF DEBTS Every American, regardless of. politics, po-litics, digin or r.'jl.'gion, will sU::d firmly at the bac'.t President f.Vt.i-idge f.Vt.i-idge and Secretary Mellon ri their efforts to compel France and other financially able nat'ons to pay their debt tc the United Slates with something some-thing like reasonaj'e promptness. Also every Ameiican vith red blood will resent the utterance of those travelling American jackasses, who, fawning at the feet of royalty, seek decorations and social recognition recog-nition at the hand of foreign governments govern-ments and stand ready to deliver the pocketbooks . of the American taxpayers tax-payers to be picked by diplomatic fingers to achieve their ends. The President and Secretary Mellon Mel-lon have made their positions perfect I ly clear. France alone owes us between be-tween four and five billion of dollars every cent of which was taken from the pockets of the American taxpayers. taxpay-ers. Millions of this debt was lent to France after the war was over. The President and Mr. Mellon want this money repaid. It appears however, how-ever, that a naif dozen or more of our "leading citizens" are not in sympathy with the President and openly seek to convey the belief to Europe that the President speaks only for a handful of politicians and not for the people of America, when he calls the French republic to account. James W. Gerard, former Ambassador Ambassa-dor to Berlin, and George W. Wicker-sham Wicker-sham are the latest to report as having hav-ing made "explanations" and to have put their feet on the soft pedal. Otto H. Kahn, the international banker, is said to have "apologized" in a speech in Paris, for the steps taken by the State Department looking to an understanding un-derstanding for the collection of our debt. Not long ago James M. Beck insisted we cancel the French debt. Beck is an officer of the French Legion of Honor; he is a Commander Command-er of the Order of the Ci'own, by the grace of the King of the Belgians, and he is allied with the French Coci-ete Coci-ete Gens de Lettre, so his sympathetic sympathe-tic attitude towards the French republic re-public may be understood. Others, perhaps, look with envious eyes on these marks of foreign favor. Your Englishman who dearly loves a Lord is almost in the socialistic class compared com-pared to the travelling American synchopants who seek the royalty smile, who want their daughters presented pre-sented at court or who seek to have |