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Show THOSE WAR DEBTS TIIPlKTi can he nn (liiulit Iml what ;ill Kune would wclciin!,. ;i eaneellatiim of the debts now o im;- Ameriea. The )riiiusiliiiii, how ever, is not presented ;i ;i matter of charily, chari-ly, 1 i i j ; h 1 x-;i t I iu the ia: terest of the I 1 1 i n 1 1 1 States, rather llian I'lurope. - We frequently fre-quently hear 1 li.it American recovery from tin depression follow ing in Hie wake, of the war is dependent upon Europe reaeliine,- a stable basis. Moreover, More-over, Kiirope's stability is said to (leiiiaml a cancllalioii of her debts. Much of this talk is paid propaganda and the rest of it is tlif result, of the deception? which have been wrong-lit . bv the chatter. Some of our people are too quick to g'-rab the bait, 'which is offered by the paid agents of Europe and those of our ow.n people who may reap duvet Mvmcial Dene-fits Dene-fits by a cancellation of these debts. The proposals are distinctly, dis-tinctly, unfair to the American people, the ran and file , of whom will feel the burden of the war for years to come. "We have all-our people can fake care, of w hen it comes to liquidating era; own' debt. There is absolutely no' reason why we should mortgage' our. future that Europe may start with a clean slate. . If the A. mericah people" 'are fully- informed in-formed of tlie conditions prevailing-, they will look with, suspicion upon the individual who urges a, cancellation ' of these obligations. In the main the talk. is. financed fi-nanced by foreign capital for a purpose.- Telegram: ' . . |