Show CA CAN N WE HELP EUROPE in a recent address before the I 1 vassar club in new york ork henry a wilson democrat and a league of nations partisan made the statement according to the newspaper reports that if i the united states had entered the league of nations france would not he be in the ruhr today all european nations with the exception of germany are in the league of nations therefore mr I 1 Morgen thaus statement it if it means anything means that the united states would have been able to accomplish com what none of the nations or all of them together in the league were not able to accomplish this checks it up to the united states to say that had it been in the league of nations france would not now be in the ruhr is to say that one of the following three things would have been done by the united states 1 it would have guaranteed france the payment of the indemnity she seeks from germany that is the united states would have paid the indemnity itself by underwriting the german promise to pay this would have necessitated raising money in this country by the issuance of bonds for which the american people would have been taxed and these bonds or the money turned over to france in lieu of the money she was unable to collect from germany 2 france would have been guaranteed security from future attacks from germany by a military alliance with the united states this is what president wilson attempted to have done going so far as to bring a treaty to that effect to this country and asking that it be ratified by the united states sta tes senate 3 france would have been told by the united states that she had collected enough that germany had paid all that she could pay and ought to pay and had france attempted to enter the ruhr she would have been opposed by the military forces forcer of the united states these are the only three eventualities that could have kept france out of the ruhr which one of these three solutions it any would the people of the united states stand tor for the answer is obvious they would have stood tor for none of them mr Morg anthaus assertion is ir a sample of the silly talk that is going on continually it is a sample of 0 the vicious propaganda that Is being circulated through the press and from the pulpit and platform some of it shrewdly by those who have full knowledge of its deception and mis mir chievous effect some of it stupidly stupid ly by those who parrot like repeat what some one else tells them without knowing what it means or what effect it will have out of the flood of propaganda urging the united states to do something to help europe what concrete suggestion or plan has been offered other than one which V necessarily involves the employment of our military and naval strength the cancellation of billions of dollars due this government and the loaning of billions more not anything yet either one or all three of these would mean the taxpayers of the united states shouldering the financial burdens of europe and maintaining at their expense sufficient military and naval forces toi to enforce the advice offered to europe by this country talk about europe needing our moral support is plain buncombe europe may need it but europe does not want it the plain truth is that repeatedly within the last two years E europe drope has insultingly rejected our moral support it has refused to give heed to our advice as to what should be done to correct the deplorable situation in which j european countries find themselves what each european nation wants of this country is that w we ex exercise our power to take the part of that nation in the perpetual embroilments embroil ments that are going on in the european continent there thera can be no doubt of 0 this there is no attempt upon the theeart part of any european country to conceal the fact prom from the republican news bureau |