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Show ADVICE TO ITALY, I'ncl Sam ought to ill down an 1 write a letter to our European friend Italy H should fay EomothinR like l 'car Italy: My hired man, Newton Baker, who helped you not a little during your late war, tells me thai you are maintaining the largest mill-tary mill-tary force in the world. That you have ihe biggest army, regular and reserve, bar none. He finds that you are lead-lng lead-lng the procession of the world's mill-tarists mill-tarists You arc spending this year 1.S12.000.000 lire on your army. That's somethintr like $t?fii.), ' - rate of exchange. rretty stiff bill, isn't it. old friend" Yes. I know you may think this Is none of my business, but Another hired man of mint, lu B Houston, has been going over our B books and finds that you still t mm a billion and a half of dollars. He gays B you claim thai you lan'i pa) even thj B interest on what you owe mo. Thai fl interest in piling high. Into the nill- B lions of dollars I'm not a flint hearted man, and I'm willing to give you plenty of lime to pay what you owe. I'm willing to paae B over interest payments if that will B help you get on your financial f-ei. I'm willing to do anything I nm to B help you. but B Your wild army ambitions are pull B ing you deeper and deeper into th mire. As long as you keep up your fl mad militarism you never can set out fl of debt Think it over B You owe Great Britain. You owe B Trance. Ymi owe everybody whe would lend you mone when you neeij d it badly. It may be that your militarists Irani B a huge army. If so. let them help you pay your debts first, and then. talk the army thing over with them. A man who can't pay his debta B who can't pay even the Interest due on them ought to avoid extravagance B The same holds good tor a nation. |