Show Tod MONEY YES MONEY IS SWEET is DE nUT BUT WAIl W IS Ii ISN'T E ny By y I Copyright 1926 by The fhe Star Co Tho The Issue In the little 1926 1028 elec elec- elections elections elections I and the tir big 1928 elections m be bo PROSPERITY not prohibition prohibition tion or any other Issue according to l presidential spokesmen With wages running from 5 to 20 20 u a uday aday uday day and profits running Into lull lull- mil millions I lions a year tor for competent business businessmen businessmen I Imen men you cannot expect any great with things as they are However human beings being are re not Interested EXCLUSIVELY In their pocketbooks Other Issues exist Is Prohibition a big Issue lou alread already The Tho world court Issue which might mean war wal with expenditures far tal bond beyond those ot of th the late ato war Is important to me States I than high wages tor for bricklayers or additional millions tor for established millionaires Senators voting to put the th United States at the mercy of ot hostile hostilo tor- tor for tor foreign eign sign judges hedged by establishing The country should understand the so-called so firth fifth reservation which most displeases Europe That reservation forbids the world court to consider questions affecting the United States without the United States Slates consent This reservation If it accepted by Europe might but probably would not prevent the the- court deciding that our war war debts debt must be canceled It might but probably would not prevent the court deciding that the Monroe doctrine Is unsound and must be superseded That reservation might not pre pre- pr sent ent ent the world court from declaring declarIng ing lug the th United States a 0 participant part In some new war andry and deciding how many men and how much money thIs country ry should contribute Wh Why should this country put Its Interests Into tho the hands handi of foreign judges Instead of ot remaining remaining- free freo What do we wo GAIN by giving up I our right to decide for tor ourselves we ask a foreign vu vu ov I tion No o 5 s that It will III not take up and decide without our consent matters vitally affecting the United States I Wo We should bo be outnumbered In that court 10 to 1 I Does anybody Imagine that Great Britain France or Italy would I allow ten American judges judge judges to their one to decide questions vitally Im Important to them 1 Important There Is something something- more more Import Import- ant to Americans American than the tho wages of plutocrats bricklayers the th profits of ot pluto pluto- plutocrat or tho the quality of bootleg whisky And nd that more Important thing Is the th right of the th United Stater to govern go Itself freo from Euro Dean Interference This country fought for tor the right to manage Itself years ago when the total population of the United States Stales was w half halt that of the city of ot Ne New York now I I President Coolidge descends from fro fromen men that made mad the tho tight fight In 1 mi miHo s Ho ought not to urge urea this na- na nation n tion of II a hundred millions to back bac I down on the th stand tand that It too k then What will this country GAIN b Y entering the th world court 1 Europe may need steed the court tc t settle the th endless quarrels that tha t arise and lead to war But Dut we have havo no quarrels with wit i Europe and plan no wars Ve W e shall not attack any nation an anthe and d the tho other nations KNOW IT What can tine one no GAIN If It we cute tho ho world court 1 We W 0 shall have ha v e one voto against tho the majority That Th at vote voto can mean nothing Wo Ve can ca n exercise no Influence In that sour court It may put us ua where here our o s will be bo submission to the court In 1 matters vitally affecting the Unite States or a war against united na ions tion nation The Tha first task of the court would d be to wipe out the war debt That Th at Involves only money not vitally lm Whether Europe pays us u e i ten usten billions In ht driblets cursing cur Us u ume s es meanwhile me or finds to t welch as she h wishes to do make s no difference This nation can afford ten lions Ilona It could afford war as ns well we 11 any any other If It war should eom come e Such a war would undoubtedly r shorten by a century or eo so th reign of ot plutocracy In the th United Unite A States shortened liS as the last big S war short short- shor t ened ned the th reign of the ho czars In Ru Rus a ala sia American high finance bent on o n forcing this country Into the wort world d court should take warning l |