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Show ISTUPIDITYJN CONGRESS. One of the Washington correspondents correspond-ents of the Hearst papers ;- dl tressed over the fact thai lh- ir usury us-ury department has not required the allied governments to pay lut rest on I the ten billions or more dollars ioancd j to them during the war. We are informed that congress is disposed to ask a full bill tf particulars particu-lars in the growing belief that some bf the debtor nations ha 6 r.o right to ask any nation such concessions of I the t'nited States in view of the expenditures ex-penditures they have been making for he increase of their armament and the extension of their trade. Information received by individual members of congress has been that i notwithstanding some of the allied governments practically are bank-, rupt, and others verging on bank ruptcy, they have been spending lav- i ishly to improve their own position to capture foreign trade, entirely regardless regard-less of their obligations to the United States "To defer their interesl payments to the Cnlted States," said a member of congress much concerned on the subject today, would be simply to f.ir- , nlflh the allied powers with the means to increase their advantages oer the j I'nited Stales in the compctUion for ; world trade. Such financial consldei at Ion as may be needed by them to sustain themselves, of com sc. ought to be shown them. Bui ii it is tlUe, as is being declared to us thai SOm of them could get alon,; quile as well ; if they restricted their expenditures for armament and for the extension of their shipping, then Why should ibf L'niled States, which is haing sol much difficulty m relieving it.- peoph of the burdens put upon them Juri"c J the war, make them any further concessions con-cessions ? It is all right to relieve their necessities, but it v. ould be all 1 wrong to increase their advantages unreasonably and to the injury of the people of tii. United States ' Statements such as the foregoing are nothing less than the? wrapon cf the demagogue. It is i well known law of International trade that 10 sell you must buy. No country can go on endlessly selling" and not buj In the. long rub, the imports mUBl ap: roxi-tnate roxi-tnate exports Yh n trie rate of ex chance reaches an almost prohibit ivi point( that means either experts must . drop or credit be extended to the, cuuntries whose money values ha( been affected. For four or five years, the United States has bc-r n enjoying a balance of trade so large as to upset ' the money markets of tha world. A big pi n entage of all the goM is impounu- : r-d in the United States To prevent ! ft' greater dislocation, the United ' States treasury has been aiming o re-i luce the financial pressure on Jrai Britain, France, Belgium and Italy, ; I and, In their stupidity congrersmen are demanding to know why this li done. |