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Show peans and Asiatics, without helping 'hem. Liberty and opportunity can come to any people only through their willingness wil-lingness to strive for a. BRINGING THE WORLD iTO ONE LEVEL. I (By Geo. B. Lockwood). Three or four years ago, when the great delusion prevailed that the United States was rich enough to put all the rest of the world on a pension, pen-sion, a religious body declared that it was selfish for the United States to enjoy such prosperity while so much of the rest of the world was in want, and suggested that it was time to begin be-gin to "whack up." Since that time, through the thimble-rigging of the international bankers, bank-ers, who seem for very practical reasons rea-sons to have the same idea, we have been financing the rest of the world to the point where a cave-in of our debtors has seriously affected American Ameri-can industry and employment. Now the same type of altruist is crying out against the American government and social system because we are poorer than we used to be, and many Americans Ameri-cans have no sufficient means of sustenance. sus-tenance. That is, of course, a beautiful idea dividing up with the rest of the ' world, and bringing the standard of life of Americans down to that of the billion people in the Orient, for instance, who Kve in filth, poverty and ignorance. By such a redistribution redistribu-tion of the wealth of the world, the level of this billion Asiatics would not be much raisedbut rather the Americans Ameri-cans would be greatly degraded.. Now, if present conditions in America Am-erica are to be complained of, what could be said of the situation when Americans are put on a bare sustenance sus-tenance basis, which is the average basis today with fully three-fourths of the world's population? The prosperity of America is not something that fell like manna from heaven. Our standards of life have not been attained without labor and sacrifice, without toil and struggle. We have not attained these unique standards at the sacrifice of the well-being well-being of other peoples. What logical reason exists for asserting that peoples, peo-ples, who have not put forth the ef-. fort, or used the wisdom that has put America where she is, have an equal right, with Americans, to what has been achieved in this nation? And how many Americans actually believe be-lieve that effort should be exerted to .pauperize their country and their countrymen, the only possible way in which a common world level can be brought about? How many of those who advocate such a policy are ready to divide up all they have with others less fortunate or successful, to prove good faith ? Is Owen D. Young, who preaches this idea, ready to begin at home with this "whacking up" program pro-gram ? Our eight per cent of the world's population cannot lift the remaining 92 per cent to our level. The only possible pos-sible effect of such an effort would be to degrade the American standard of life, with all it involves of progress beyond the material, to that of Euro-, |