The Washington times., 1920-10-08
Today
Large Family.
Bleeding Our Friends.
Slow Money Raising.
4 High Wall.
, Arthur BRISBANE
tcopyrisAt. 1850.


lively, In his speech made At Dss
Moines. Iowa, yesterday after
noon. that he wanted mo accept
ance OF the League. with or With
out reservations.
The American people will say
the same thing on election day.
and there will be no League OF
Nations, with or without reservs-
tions.
4 One single burying ground
across the water holds In long
rows the bodies OF $4,000 American
soldiers. There is no intention TO
give a foreign council authority 10
start new burying grounds OF thst
kind.
Yesterday afternoon the Census
Bureau announced the population
of the United States, los, 700, 900.
We have grown into quite .
large family. since handful told
England in 1776 that this country
could and would manage its OWE
affairs without advice or inter
ference from abroad.
How many OF the 105, ,700.00O
men and women do you think will
vote this year for the League OF
Nations, vote to crawl back under
the protecting wing OF England?
Senator Knox asked the Presi-
dent whether we should be legally
obliged to fight in case some for
oign nation in the League were at
tackled by some other nation. To
this the President replied that we
should be (these are his words)
A"under an absolutely compelling
obligation" to do so.
Moral obligation" or illegal
obligation" or both, how many OF
the los, 100000 Americans not
counting twelve million two hun
dred and fifty thousand more liv-
ing in our island possessions will
vote for the War League Of Ma
tions'
The city of Zurich, Switzerland,
bending meekly to the demand OF
usury, borrows six millions in the
United States, paying eight per
cent interest. 1t receives only
$92.50 for each 500 bond. And it
agrees to pay $1O7.50 for the bond
when it becomes due.
The first year, therefore, the
usurer who lends the money gets
fourteen and one-half per cent.
The last year he gets fifteen and
one half per cent, and eight per
cent in the interval.
~ Apart from the fact that these
Hoans disorganize the American
money market, making it difficult
!. or impossible for Aipsrican busi-
ness men to get eapitaa for new en-
terprises and for employing labor,
such loans should be forbidden on
the ground Of criminal usury.
That q nation, city, or individual
is poor is no excuse for stealing
money.
We talk about helping our dear
friends in Europe with a vicious
League of Nations, while permit
ting our money sharks to bleed
those dear friends without limit.
They began yesterday selling
household goods of the murdered
gambler Elwell. More than nine
teen thousand dollars came in the
first day. Twenty-seven dollars
was the price of blood-stained
rug. AS the rug was sold news
came that Elwell's father had died
of an apoplectic stroke.
Here the sins and follies Of the
child are visited upon the father.
Can you imagine Elwelps sur
Aprise upon learning from his
father that the people here below
} do not yet know the name of the
Elwell murderer, and probably
never will know?
The Democrats in Georgia have
nominated for Governor Thomas
w. Hardwick. He will be elected,
and his platform is, 81 don't want
anything. to do with any League of
Nations"
Hardwick will be elected, Gov
ernor Cox will not.
If you mean to do anything, do
1t now.
The teamsters' union has decided
to spend two millions to fight the
open shop crusade spreading rap
idly among employers. Money is
to be raised by imposing an annual
tax of thirty cents per capita on
the $780, 900 members Of the union.
At that rate it would take more
than fifty years to raise the de-
tense fund Of two million. In a
good deal less than fifty years the
question of the open or closed shop
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