The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-01-30

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tempt it."
England is facing the same condi-
tions that have grown up in the Unit
ed States, and Lloyd George recog-
nizes the fact that organized move
ments exist in the countries that have
been busy with the war. seeking "a
control the opportunities which have
heretofore been the birthright of citi-
zenship. What is known as Bolsheviki
in some of the European countries,
has been m~anifesting itself in a mod
flied form in the United States thorugh
attempts to honeycomb our political
and economic affairs with a faint OF
socialism. The American soldier has
had an opportunity to see this system
in operation in foreign lands, and the
probabilities are that he will prefer
the good old U. S. A. under the condi-
tons as he knew it before the war.
America is not old enough to have
any great stores of progenitors, but
the Sons Of Liberty" are determined
to uphold their heritage.
The Committee on immigration in
the House of Representatives, is con-
sidering radical changes in the immi'
grafton laws. Nobody appears to be
at all sure that Europeans, or Asiatics
will wish to burden the affairs Of the
United States by adding their presence
to our population in large numbers.
Nevertheless, it is certain hat the
country has about all it can undertake
to do if it provides the right kind OF
employment for the returning soldiers,
and keeps the rust off the wheels of
industry. 1t is estimated that 3,000,-
900 men we're idle in the United States
before the selective draft was put i'll
to operation. If this estimate is even
approximately correct then the return
of the soldiers to civil life will mean
a great deal of unemployment unless
measures are devised to put the speed
belt on industry.
The argument seems to favor check
ing immigration; and the further sug-
gestion is popular that the government
should provide a vast amount of pub
lie construction. The carrying out
of Secretary Lanes land development
plans are regarded as important in
that they suggest a way by which sol
diers can secure a real home and a
piece of land, if they will apply them
selves to the task.
1t is the memory of middle-aged
men that u great financial and in
dustrial development depended upon
foreign capital, and English syndi-
Gates" and German syndicates" were
common enough throughout the Unit
ed States. But all that is changed,
and this country has loaned the gov
ernments with which it has been asso-
ciated in the war somewhere around
eight billion dollars. Mr.. Frank A.
Vanderlip, the New York fnancier, es-
Inmates that these loans, with the in
crease of foreign bank credits, makes
a total change in the international
credit situation measured by about
$12, 500, 900, 900. Mr.. Vanderlip de-
clares that the questions confronting
the country at the present time, calls
for well considered opinions, "for we
cannot expect to have the government
have sounder Judgment than the sum
total of public opinion" He offers
this healthy advice: Let us con-
tinue to be altruistic. If we render
to the world a great service we can
rest easy about our reward. We have
a great opportunity. Let us see what
we can make of this opportunity, not
what we can make out of it."