Show THE FARMER AND EUROPEAN POLITICS M clemenceau in addressing the american farm bureau federation urging the farmers to support the entry of america in european affairs is reported by the associated press as saying what does isolation mean for you you know what it meant with your last wheat crop more wheat than america could eat with low prices so that you did not know what io to do at the time your prices were down russia and austria germany and france were hungry and eat because they pay they pay because 0 of the unsettled conditions in europe directly traceable to the fact that the united left europe after att erthe othe war without helping enforce the peace treaty with the exception of 19 gsg tho the american farmer exported more wheat last year than any previous year of peace in the history of the y A v 1 united states therefore M clem ence aus auls tearful solicitation about the direful results of isolation upon the american farmer was wholly uncalled for and contrary to facts As to his claim that the people of france and other european countries went hungry because they did not have the money wherewith to import american wheat and other grains there is room tor for argument the united states senate some time since requested the secretary of 0 state to furnish it with information regarding the revenues expenditures and deficits of the various nations of europe especially the annual cost of land armaments in the several european countries this information the secretary of state has just tr transmitted to the senate through president harding tho the data contained therein furnishes a very it ruminating lumina ting reason why people in europe went hungry it shows that reason is not because the united states refuses to take part in european affairs as M clemenceau so positively asserts but because billions are being expended by european power for military purposes practically all the powers making these vast military expenditures are with two or three exceptions members of the league of nations and bound by the covenants of that league to keep the peace or at least to to submit their differences to the league for arbitration and amicable settlement after reducing the military budgets of the european countries to their equivalent in american money it will be found why the people of europe are hungry but have not enough money to buy food it is not because the united states is not doing its part or because the american farmer refuses to become involved in european quarrels it is because european governments are spending their money in building up vast military establishments for the purpose of waging another world war the participation of the united states in european affairs would have but one outcome it would involve this country in that war the lesson the american farmer is to derive from this condition in europe is that he should do all within his power to build up and make secure his home market under no circumstances will europe bo be a profitable market for the american farmer within this generation even if it does not enter into another war it will be impoverished for another generation paying for the debts of the last war and an impoverished people are under no circumstances good steady or profitable customers |