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Show I GIVING AWAY BILLIONA sff. rrepresaible William .1 Bryan. When everybody had decided that tne Nehraskau had withdrawn from public notice and had been silenced by phpic the Famous orator breaks forth in a ffeSOunding appeal to the pocket-hook of the world Bryan wants the governments to he quite unlike Individuals and write off billion- of dollars n credits He would have the United Estates because the Santa t.laus of nations and with a scratch of the pen. cancel the obligations of those who became indebted to n during the wai He i as generous with the credits of Uncle Sam as a spendthrift son is reckless with the dollars of his dad. In an address in Washington on Wednesday, Bryan said tin-world tin-world soon must decide whether it would become a world of brothers or of brute. "Our nation." declared Mr liryah, 1 has now such an opportu-1 nity to serve the world as no other nation has had before. The al-lies al-lies cannot pay without collecting the money from their former cue- j inies They could not collect this sum, in addition to their 0WH demands, de-mands, without sowing the seeds of a war more bloody than the one out of which we have just ome "Our nation can ute this debt to buy world pence, universal 1 and perpetual. It can well afford tu cancel this debt on condition that the terms of the trealv are modified SO as to tyQng the nations of Europe together in friendship and co-operation. Then universal j disarmament will he possible; then the burden of civilisation can be lifted from the backs of the toilers of the world, then we can expect ex-pect the ushering in of tiie glad prophetic dav when swoi Is shall DC beaten into plowshares and nations learn war no more This is a pleasitu? dream, hut it is poor business and. al present.! this world of ours ifl n a purely hu.si.iess basis When the United States dropped into the slougii of despon I ltweeu l s r : i and 1896, due to the fact thai European creditors w applying the financial screws and squeezing out ever dollar bb-j lainable from their American debtors, there was no thoughl of easing the strain bj the application generosity on 'he pari of tlx big financial interests of Burope. The more America squirmed, the greater great-er was the pressure. , At laat America is out from under the load and. 110 sooner i ' the country breathing easj than the proposal is made thai with! conditions reversed, we ask no tribute The millennium must le near at hand, if Bryan eprrectlj inter-prets inter-prets public sentiment |