Arizona republican., 1919-09-01

among the liabilities of which should pay not only share but more because of our greater ability to pay.
 We sometimes think and the French do not like each other as much as did before the war and the first weeks of the We have been in intimate relation have been disllusioned We had always pictured the French a light hearted and frivolous people, and of them some thing worse. We expected the with all it's suf- ferngs and imposed sacrifices to make changes. We pictured the new France black-robed serious, fearful maiden with new outlook upon life and no longer the gay creature of whom had heard.
 But France is not sad but gayer reck- less than ever. What has France done for us in return for going over there to tell La Fayette Were here; now what do you want?" She has pre- pared new fashion of painted female legs to spring upon us next winter. bringing two evils that we speak of it's train though there others The bit of artistry involved will be much more ex- pensive than the silk stockings which add to our national impoverishment And there too, will be the constant invitation to pneumonia
 In financial way our part in the war in behalf of France has been picnic. We have been com peed pay at every turn in the road; to work for nothing and board ourselves. We had to pay for harbor space; we had to buy the ground where we dug training trenches and we suppose when all the figures shall be charged for mussng up and disfiguring the surface of the ground at Chateau Thierry in the Foul sector and in the Argonne. What the Germans are unable to pay shall be called upon to pay. No wonder President Wilson avoided so far as possible American participation, at the peace conference the subjects indemnities and reparatons. He very properly managed that we should get off lightly possible.
 The French overlooked bet there. If they had only thought of American prohibition, then measured the damage it would do to the champagne industry; if the French delegates. say had thought of it there would probably be in the peace treaty some thing like this under the head of Annex VII Special Provisions Article 247 (a) Section II, Part vIII Preparations:
 Within the year after the exchange of ratifica- of this treaty the government of the United States shall pay to the government of the Republic of France, hereafter to be determined equal in amount to the profits derived from the sale of 40 per cent of the wines produced by France in the year 1914 and thereafter the government of the United States shall pay to the government of the Republic of France annually such which shall be increased from year year. the increase to be based upon the estimated increase with the increase of the population of the United States of consumers of French wines. These annual payments by the government of the United States to the government of the Republic of France shall continued until such time when the federal prohibition amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be abrogated and until such time when federal prohi- btion legislation in the United States and prohibi- tion legislation in each and the several States there of shall be repealed and shall cease to be of force and effect