Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-21
Foreign Policy
1920 Issue inU. S.

Continued from PnGe One
question in America after the peace
conference. and it will make our for.
2ign policy the biggest issue Of the
1920 election.
Two Big Domestic Issues
For that same campaign there will
We two big domestic issues. First,
shall be wartime Government insur.
ance be continued. and shall Govern.
nent control or ownership. found nec-
essary in the war, be continued as a
permanent normal policy in America
and extended tC include even more OF
our commercial industrial activities
than at present?
These are to be the three cardinal
points of American politics immedi
ately after the war and for long time
to come. There is nothing in any one
Of them touching the past traditions
of the existing parties and there is
nothing left Of the old issues. Tariff
is no longer a tariff issue but n mat
ter of international bookkeeping The
States rights issue has been killed by
the South itself by it's attitude on vari
Gus recent questions.
THE new party alignment will be
chiefly on foreign policy. We will find
group in the South and a group in
New England that will favor strong
permanent foreign alliances. In the
West the tendency will be all the
other way, because OF the great for
eign element of the population.
No doubt there will be great changes
in our immigration laws. Through
immigration America must make use
of its unutiiized land. Draw a line
between Omaha and st. Paul and an
other between San Francisco and Seat.
tie. between those two lines We can
find room for 25,000.00O immigrants,
allowing to each of them a farm as
large as the largest peasant farm now
cultivated in Europe. These agricul-
tural immigrants would be discouraged
from coming if America had formal
alliances with some countries. but not
with others. Those from nations with
which we had no formal alliances
would feel that their fatherlands were
Disseminated against. They would
feel that they themselves were subor-
dinate members in our citizenship. We
would produce for ourselves situations
out of which friction would grow.
America cannot afford to have such
feelings of discrimination nj the fu-
ture.
Asiatic Question Worldwide
Furthermore. we can no longer con.
slider our European relations as one
thing and our Asiatic relations as an
other. When the war is over Japan
will say to her allies. England and
France. L ask you to request of Amer
lea that there shall be Incorporated
in the treaties a statement that my
people are to have the same privileges
in the United States as your people,
What could England and France say?
And England must see that, what.
ever Asiatic readjustment there is,
will have direct bearing on Australia
So the Asiatic question Is no longer
an affair between America and Japan
but a world question which would
greatly complicate any alliances that
we might venture to make with Eu.
ropean countries.
THE domestic issues that I have
mentioned are full of possible rami.
fcations into many economic ques-
tions. We are going to hear from the
farmers as never before. The farm.
ers will tell us that their profits have
been limited and their business regu-
lated during the war. while others
have been getting rich because OF
the war, without restraint. This pro.
| test of the farmers will be big fac
| tor in the campaign two years hence.
They will create an issue by demand.
ing Government warehouses through
which they may reach the consumer
without the long string Of profit-taking
Intermediates that now exists. The
| parties will have to declare them
selves as to the farmers as well as
on the question of continuing an insur-
ance system for workers and the ques.
tions - Government ownership and
prohibition. Nuv
| With tne war over, there is not the
slightest chance of the third-term
question arising. Also. with the wal
over, I don't think the political par
ties in 1920 will look to the military
heroes as such for heads of the tick
cts. There cane be any great, out
standing military man In America
like Grant was after the Civil War
This Is because of the distance Of the
fighting from the people and because
of the lack Of exploiting any individ
ual Furthermore. as the issues vii
be questions of diplomacy and nationa
economies, the leaders naturally Will
be statesmen rather than soldiers
see no individuals In sight yet, bu
] am convinced that the Democratic
party cannot go to the East for III
candidate"