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Show Pulling The Star Spangled Leg Will the cmapaign of foreign propaganda pro-paganda never cease? We are severely criticised because we do not open our money bags and pour their contents into the bankrupt bank-rupt treasuries of Europe. We are importuned and wheadled to cancel the billions of war debts due us from our late allies. We are charged with deserting them because we are not willing to embroil ourselves in the tangled affairs af-fairs of the nations across the seas. We are denounced as war profiteers pro-fiteers because we sold to the late ictors in the war the munitions and supplies with which they prosecuted lUill w;ir and they were sold upon the insistent plea of those nations. We are told that it is our duty to come to the aid of civilization but with gold in our hands. And now comes the Greek nation wuh a demand that we let down our iiv.ulgration bars and open our doors to a million and a half of Greek i- 'u gees Jrom Constantinople and A Minor. God forbid! it is because of the presence of so ,,.,:,y foreign malcontents in this ('.: ., try that we are in a constant s'. ve of internal turmoil, with the i,;!,:.,-,v of bolshevistic revolution ,1 plunder always hovering as a menace in the background. Admit a million and a halt direct Iron. Iho hotbvnl of intrigue aud f: : : icism? Never! V.. and women of foreign birth vho have come to us in the past and have proven themselves to be l'n -d citizens are welcome, and we e .iend to them the hand of fellow-and fellow-and good will. mi thev constitute a sufficiency. H Greece needs aid in feeding ,., wn people who are forced by ,,.(,-, to return to their -e' land, we will extend that aid ',', ame manner that we have I,,,.., doing it in various countries in 'h, ,.a8t trough the Red Cross and her such agencies. - fh-iree the United States with being niggardly in feeding feed-ing and clothing the hungry and naked of foreign lands. Even as this editorial is ibeing written, our food and our clothing and our gold are being sent abroad In great quantities quan-tities for this very purpose, and hundreds of thousands are being saved from starvation. This we are glad to do, because it is an act of humanity. But we are eternally opposed to 'the wholesale admission of a horde of refugees who have been reared admist blood, butchery and trickery. That would be an act of insanity. Let the Greek nation house its own refugees, and if necessary we will aid in feeding and clothing them until they can become self sustaining. But no more! The volcano of discontent is becoming be-coming hot under our feet as it is. We will not knowingly kick off the lid. |