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New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Secretary Colby's Polish Note Has
Again Set F Foreign Ministers
- to Guessing

sons devotion to his fourteen
points, were used to an unlimited
extent in this particular matters
The British did not want self-de-
termination In the East. They adopt
ed the principle for the limited area
in which the French were seeking 8
foothold solely because it was a
weapon which could be used against
the French, a dangerous weapon, to
be sure, given their own problems
in Egypt, India and even in Meso-
potamia, but still the handiest of all
available sticks with which to beat
their French rivals.
Now in the case Of Poland, of the
Russian Reds and of the whole ques-
tion which is raised by the chaos
beyond the Vistula, French and
British policies are once more at
odds. France wants, beyond all else,
two things: strong Poland, as an
ally against Germany, and a Russian
government which will honor the
obligations of czarist Russia and
thus guarantee the vast French
holdings in the old Russian debt.
For France this Russian debt is only
less important than the indemnities
due from Germany-together they
spell ruin or restoration for the re-
public.
No Sympathy for Poles
Britain, on the contrary, is wholly
without interest as to the French debt
and exceedingly unsympathetic with
the Poles. At Paris Lloyd George
went far beyond Wilson in seeking to
reduce Polish territories. What the
British desire most is some sort of
peace with Russia which will at once
put an end to the very obvious peril
their Eastern empire is in because of
the fact that the Dolshevists have a
land approach to India, that road by
Khyber Pass which in the Victorian
days seemed to be marked for Rus
sian invasion, as readers of Kipling
will recall.
British statesmen, in addition, are
undergoing a tremendous pressure
from within their own island for a
peace arrangement with Russia,
pressure coming from labor, while
France is equally affected by push
in the opposite direction coming
from the thousands of small people
who hold Russian rentes. 1t would
be just as impossible for Millerand
to make peace with any Russian
government which refused to honor
the old debt as it would be for Lloyd
George to continue to make war upon
any Russian government, however
revolutionary, if any sort of peace
terms were proposed.
Weary of Germany
Now the situation is complicated
again by the German difficulty. The
mass of the British public, Labor
and Liberal alike, want to have done
with the German business. They
hope for little or no indemnity from
Germany. They are opposed to any
form of military action against Ger
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Britain, Which Was All Elated,
Now Offended, While France
IsMomentarily Pleased

Italy than the Germans because of
our stand in the matter of Fiume.
The French find it impossible to
understand why we steadily backed
the British in all the Paris Confer
ence. The British are totally
amazed at seeing US, notwithstand-
ing the Paris concord, suddenly ap-
pear in the open, upsetting British
policies and producing crises in
British domestic politics. Grateful
the Poles probably are for our
moral approval in their hour of ex-
treme peril, but over against this
they must set the fact that we joined
with the British in imposing upon
them the Danzig enormity, which
has lately demonstrated it's essen
tial viciousness.
Our Liberal Group
In the United States there is q
small group Of so-called Liberals
for whom The New Republic is per-
haps the most conspicuous spokes-
man, which is undertaking to bring
about complete fusion between the
views Of the British, rs expressed
by Lloyd George at this moment and
under Labor pressure, and those of
the United States government. This
group accepts British policy as pro-
gressive and liberal and denounces
the French course as reactionary
and even militaristic. Thus Mr..
Wilson's determination against the
recognition of Red Russia and his
support Of the French attitude have
aroused a violent outcry.
Yet the fact is still unmistakable
that American sympathy in the mat
ter Of Russia and Of Germany is
still far more with the French than
with the British point of view, while
it is equally certain that between
the French purposes and the Amer
lean conceptions there is very wide
gap in many other fields. On the
whole, there has been little or no
protest against the Treaty of Ver-
sailles, as such, in the United States.
Protests that Germany was too Sc
verely treated have been rare and
have come from very limited groups.
The desire to reopen communica-
tions, either diplomatic or CONNER
cial, with Russia is restricted in the
extreme.
Rejoiced at Russian Success
BY contrast these are the very
foundations Of the contentious of
the British Liberals. Nor is it less
clear that American sympathy was
very generally excited in the mat
ter of Poland, whereas British Lib
erals and the Labor groups in par
ticular openly rejoiced at the Rus
sian victories and were frankly dis
appointed when Warsaw was saved
by combination of French mill
tary genius and Polish devotion.
The mass Of Americans are, then,
very far away from any common
ground with the influences which are
more and more controlling British
policy and debating the tune to
which Lloyd George foots it with all
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

clined to honor Russian debts to
France.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Weary of Germany

Now the situation is complicated
again by the German difficulty. The
mass of the British public, Labor
and Liberal alike, want to have done
with the German business. They
hope for little or no indemnity from
Germany. They are opposed to any
form of military action against Ger
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

Auauy u culOTCe peace lcAAIS. Auey
regard any more war as likely to
bring financial ruin to the empire,
even if it proves successful in the
end. In a word, the British are
going through period of extreme
reaction from all the ideas, princi-
pies. purposes of the war era. They
are uninterested in Germany, for
them no longer either a menace or a
rival
More than this, they are thorough
ly provoked at the French, whose
policy in their minds is calculated
to bring about new wars with Ger
many and to prevent a settlement
with Russia and therefore make
peace in the world impossible. 1t
would be difficult to exaggerate this
impatience with France in almost all
British circles at the present mo-
ment, an impatience very human and
natural, which grows out Of the feel
ing that French policy will sooner
or later involve the British in an
other foreign war; while France,
for which the war has not been
liquidated, is equally resentful of
what it regards rs British desertion.
AS long as Mr.. Wilson stayed in
Paris it was pretty easy for British
statesmen to find Wilsonian rea-
son for objecting to French pur-
poses. We were again and again
thrown against the French on ques-
tions of no concern to us as ma
tion but Of infinite Importance to
Mr.. Wilson, since one Of his four
teen points was involved. We op-
posed them at the Saar, we stood
against them in Syria, we held out
against the Rhine proposal, we stood
firm against Polish hopes in the east
of Germany.
Switched to Italy
But when Mr.. Wilson went home
and the United States Senate dis
closed the fact that it did not pur-
pose to honor his signature to any
document or follow his advice in
any policy our value to the British
as brake upon French purpose
disappeared. Accordingly, after
brief period of delay Lloyd George,
with characteristic skill, made new
combination, this time with Italy,
to serve the same purposes Italy,
to be sure, was not influenced by
any such idealistic notions as had
swayed Mr.. Wilson. She was angry
at France because Clemenceau had
declined to associate himself with
Orlando in opposing Mr.. Wilson's
Fiume policy, because he had re-
fused with rather brutal frankness
to join in Latin counterpoise to
the Anglo-Saxon federation which
had dominated the Paris Conference,
to ltaiy's very great injury.
To be sure, Britain had been not
less unfriendly in the Adriatic dis
pute, but Italy could net afford too
many enemies, and, besides, Italy
needed coal, needed ships, needed
all the things which the British
could supply, and she had the frank
purpose to make British comp!ai-
sance with her Adriatic policy one
of the rewards for her support of
Lloyd George. We had, then, soon
after America retired, frank part
nership, with Britain and Italy not
only united but standing solidly and
consistently against French pur-
poses.
This was true in the case Of Ger
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Our Policy

IL sum, the greatest weakness IF
our foreign policy at the present
hour is that it is frequently Brit
ish, occasionally, with great empha-
Sis, French, almost invariably anti.
Italian, anti-Rumanian, anti-Greck:
that it has in the past done scant
justice to Poland and encouraged
Jugo-Slav resistance to Italy and
Bulgarian hostility to Greece, with
out IN any case supplying any tangi-
BILE support for the aspirations we
have aroused or defended. Again
and again European nations have
accepted our statements of princ.-
pie as evidences Of our purpose to
hight f1r the principles, only to find
we have either abando-ad the prin-
clples or contented ourselves wlta
the mere verbal support Of them.
Sooner or later we shall have to
develop an American policy or find
ourselves involved in a quarrel with
all OF Europe. Our present unpop-
ufarity on the Continent and in the
British Isles, greater than ever in
our history, is the final evidence OF
the consequences Of our present
lack Of an American policy
cepyrishs. ssao. the Mcclure MswHpassa
&YH6IGAfA Z
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12


at least equal strength.
Saved by Coiby's Letter
Thus, if French military aid at
the critical moment saved the
Poles, Mr.. Colby's epistolary sup
port rescued the French from an
awkward and even dangerous situa-
tion in which they had either to turn
their backs upon their recent allies
and go it alone or else give way
upon matters which were of vital
Importance to France. All Lloyd
Georges infinitely skillful efforts
were wrecked the moment that
France, no longer feeling herself
isolated, was able to pursue her own
policy again. Nor was it easy for
Britain and Italy to break with
France on an issue on which the
United States V as clearly support
ing France.
Of course, thing goes even
deeper. 1t is , le that on the ques-
tion of Bolshe' ISM the United States
and France are one; there is just as
little sympathy for Lenine in the
United States as in France, and there
is identical opposition and disap-
proval for the Lloyd Georgian policy
of negotiating with the Reds. In
point of fact, it may be questioned
whether the American hostility is
not even deeper than the French, for
the French government would have
joined with the British and Italian
in recognizing the Reds had they
agreed to pay the French debt. Still,
aside from this detail, French hatred
of Bolshevism is very general and
real.
We have, then, by intervening in
European affairs again at critical
moment, restored the French posi-
ton. Our troops at Chateau
Thierry were hardly more welcome
than Mr.. Colby's note, from a French
point of view. But in doing this
we have manifestly opened breach
with British craftsmanship, as
Lloyd George himself indicated,
when he accused Mr.. Wilson of a
lack of consistency in the matter of
Russia.
Not Wilson's Purpose
Thus we have again served Eu-
ropean nation wholly without intent.
1t was not Mr.. Wilson's purpose to
back France against Britain when
he wrote or let Mr.. Colby write the
Wilsonian epistle to the Italians.
And this incident again empha-
sizes the very great danger that we
are in at all times and under all
circumstances in meddling with Eu-
ropean affairs. The consequences Of
our policies are very often totally
beyond the expectations of all Amer
leans, simply because in foreign af-
fairs we have no established Amer
lean policy, no immediate concern
which necessitates the training
cf men who are competent to match
wits and abilities with Downing
Street or the Quai d'Orsay. We find
ourselves thrown, now against the
French, now against the British,
earning international dislikes, with
out the smallest domestic idea of
the extent to which we are acquir-
ing European detestation.
To-day we are more unpopular in
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

his accustomed grace and agility.
On the other hand, we have neitber
the interest nor the experience nee.
essary to undertake to steer course
between the Scylla of British policy
and the Charybdis of French in all
the-for us-uncharted rocks of En-
ropean affairs.
believe that the mass of Ameri.
cans would very frankly concede
that they were opposed to any ma.
tional policy which supported Brit.
ain against France or France
against Britain in the European
field. Yet this is exactly what is
bound to occur unless we presently
retire completely from world af.
fairs, which is impossible, or adopt
consistent and definite policy of
our own. We cannot forever skirt
the edges of the tumult, now dash
ing in on one side, now on the other.
without presently drawing to our.
selves the dislike of both.
Nobody Loves Us
Mr.. Colby's letter to the Italians
is a final example of the fashion in
which an action wholly simple and
straightforward in itself may have
far-reaching consequences outside Of
the question at issue. It's effect was
to upset Anglo-Italian diplomacy
and give to French a prestige which
had been lacking for many months
and was further enhanced by the
Polish victories due to French gen.
eralship. But as a consequence we
earned the bitter resentment of the
British and the Italians, particu.
larly of the Labor and Socialist
groups. Only few months ago we
earned similar resentment in France
when Mr.. Wilson characterized
French leadership as nilitaristic.
Underlying all these separate
gestures of ours is the conception
that the mass Of people in each ma
ton have something approximating
a general agreement, that that
agreement would be expressed in
common action if some wholly arti-
fetal opposition did not prevent it.
The truth, Of course, is quite oppo.
site. The governments in France,
Britain and Italy are to-day at least
as good exponents of national will
as the American. What are in con-
fiict are the purposes of the masses
OF the several nations. What our
various interventions suggest in the
several European nations is that we
as a nation have identical policies
and purposes with one of the Euro.
pean groups.
0shev.s TTsn TTs
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Others Use Us

But this is not true. We are
neither French nor British, Italian
nor German in our conceptions of
Europe. In point of fact, our ex-
perience is so slight and our public
men so little trained in European
affairs that we are constantly being
used, and again and again interven-
ing in a fashion not in the least ex-
pressive Of the purpose of the people
of the country, but merely the result
of some accidental reaction in off,
clal quarters. To let either the
French or the British believe that
we are likely to stand az a mat er
OF policy with either is to build up
d belief which our action is bound
briefly to shatter with disastrous
consequences.
The greatest evil to this country
OF the Paris Conference, so far as
American participation was con-
cerned, was the fact that we there
took a course which led the French
to believe we had deserted them and
joined an Anglo-Saxon combination
to dominate the world, while there
after we openly rejected British
leading in the Russian affair and
thus left the British with the feel
ing that we had not only deserted
them but actually betrayed them.
AS for the Italians, they welcomed
Mr.. Wilson in Rome as second
Garlbaldi, only to discover him in
Paris almost as bitter an opponent
OF Italian aspirations as Metternich
himself.
N,...
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n. !. STOCKS

New York. Oct. aT-Thc stock market
was under incesSant pressure t"da!' l''
extent OF the impLlrm"n', wh,'c com
paratively moderate N Scasoneh Sha,
assumed wider dimensions among N''
more speculative issues
From the very outset selling con-
vcrgcd around the stclS. that group "Ni-
rently being regarded IS especially W.
ncraSlc because Of tho failure OF tnc
United States Steel directors 10 IN
crease the common GlNidcHH AZ HcSN''
days quarterly meeting
In All likelihood. however. hcaFlhsss
of steels and affiliated socks was o.
rectly due 10 adTiccS from i~ae'ns Cym
yers ~ the Industry wner" turthcr price
unsettnment and reduced output seemed
10 be In prosreSs. .,h.,1-
iaries, oils. tobaccos. sukarS. rhenli,HI nS
,and numerous uncnSS,leu p..ta,ary
were swept into the rcaS''otltFy
noyement at extreme Losses OF TO .
noints. Rails OF the better type mace
only moderate CcnccS>tonS' put yuIt"'
issues eaSed sharply on SinaiI o"tI -
Total sales amounted TO t'"."VV SnaIe
An Incident Of the session was INC
x.eakness OF Savage Arms. touo~ths
news Of the suspension OF oiSloenus Wv
rhc second preferred and toni'no"
shares. The CompdnEs ISSUES ONE
SrideS" ON the exchange. but earnings
OF the past year seemed 20 u!Se0N"e W
days action. ~ Iondon
rorsshadowed early adjustment OF DIM
erences between the British miners ano
tho government This was borne 9ut
by cables received By private BANK III ar
tercsts, but the effect on the STOCK me M
ke, MAS negligible. Call money pursued
RS recent course. openinGe at per ysn.
and advancing to 10 per cent oehore
the close, the bulk OF the offerings
coming from interior hanks .,,,,,,,
RnnSs were irregular on a relativey
small turnover, popular issues, nctue-
in% Liberties, showing nom!na! sans
and recessions. Total sales (par Ealur'
Gil $50, 900. Old L. 5. bonds were III
-, poad on call.
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

New YORK. OCT, ".-Prlmc merCFh-
tile paper s. Exchange Irregular; stcr-
ling 6O-day bills 343 Is commercial 60
day bills on banks 343S: commerce al
60-day bills 3.427s: demand 3i7 Is cables
S4SS. Francs. demand 632; cables 634.
Bel CLAN francs. demand 613: cables SIS;
guilders demand 500; cables $3.50. Lire
demand 272: cables 374. Marks demand
1873: cables 1879. Greece demand 95I:
New York exchange OH Montreal 9n
per cent discount. Government and rail-
road bonds irregular.
Time loans steady: so and 80 days and
six months "a per cent discount. Gov
crument and railroad bonds Irregular.
Time loans steady: 90 and 80 days and
siX months -. per cent.
Call money steady; high 10: low y;
ruling rate .: closing bid 8: offered at
10; last loan 10: bank aCceptanceS 6H:
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MARYS

s.. Marys. w. Va, Oct; 2S-Misps
Twila White spent the Weekend with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. White
OF Raven Rock.
W II Myers and Earl Mulnix. OF
Finch, were business callers here sat
urday.
mess caller here Monday.
Miss Ella Zipf. who is employed al
Warren, Pa, is spending several DAYS
here with her parents. Mr.. and MIS-
MIR. and Mrs. Clarence JOY. of Pike,
were the guests OF relatives here Fri
Mrs. NJ. Cochran and daughter, Miss
Kitty, OF Eureka. have moved 10 thls
city and will spend the winter with Mrs'
Frank Hammett.
Mrs. Jane Mercer. Mr.. and Mrs. SUD
Powell and children. Of Maxwell. spent
Sunday here with relatives.
Mrs. Meredith Nichols and chlloTen'
of Maxwell were callers here Sunday
Jas. Ward. who has been employed al
Akron, O., for sometime Is spending
several days here with his family.
Mrs. b. II. Hardin spent Monday with
her sister. Mrs. Cline. or Newrorr "
Mesdamcs. Eerna Mercer and clyde b.
Gardner were at Marietta Saturday.
J. 4. Allison. of Cloverdae. was
business caller here Saturday.
MT. and Mrs. VIM. Reed. Of La Benz
were the guests Of Mr. and Mrs. j. D.
Locke. Sunday.
Miss Beulah Garrison. OF Belmont
was shopping here Saturday.
Mr., and Mrs. J. W. King returned To
their home at Marietta Monday after
spending several days here with Inc
Iatter's father d. w. Wiley.
John Boley. of Broad Run. was trans
acting business here MONDAY.
], 3. Boley, of Peasants. was IN town
Saturday.
several days here this week with rela'
tives. ,,.,.
Quite a number from this vicinity wit
nnssed the ball game at Parkersourg
Sunday afternoon. between the locai
nine and Parkersburg Independents: The
score being to ; in favor or the home
boys.
Mrs. Mart W-haley departed this life at
the home Of her daughter. Mrs, John T
Rum ga rdner, on Sunday morning. Oc'
tober gath. after lingering illness OF
complications. The husband and several
coror,anion. a tender and loving mother
Funeral arrangements have not been
completed.
Mrs. John Blouir. Of Schultz. died al
the Marietta Hospital. Saturday. after
a short illness. The remains were
brought here Monday and taken to the
Ingram Cemetery for burial.
Republicans Of Pleasants County are
holding a series Of political meetings In
the county this week and II is expected
that every voter in the county will at
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SUGAR.

New York. Oct 27.--There was a l't-
tie more activity IN The local raw sugar
market today and transactions included
various kinds Of sugar, although IL was
noted that buyers were Interested ~
only prompt or nearby shipment anu
wkiIe prices were irregular. they closed
unchanged from the previous night or
nc for Cuba$. cost anu lrr!Eh'' tquh'
10 x5a far centrifugal The business
included about lU.iOU bags of IcruS IN
port and afloat mostly at I.@5c ell! GOO
bags Porto Ricos early Novrmb'r ship
mcnt a. soc elf. followed by l5,u"o
bags IN port at 49, cir; some bra%i,
ccntrirucais in port a. use cir. an!
~ Onu b,us Of Cuhas for prompt ship
ment at fl.r cost and grctEht. :.
Tho market for refined was unchanged
at lie to Iac for fine Granulated.. Tho
demand was said to be good for inmcd,-
ate delivery.
Sugar futures werr moderately ac-
tive although most ~ the business Was
in the form Of switches from the n"ar
to tho moro distant positions: Prices
were easier and closed at declines or D
10 . ppintS.
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SAX BROTHERS
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.

Chicago, oct. 27.--Cattlc. receipts.
1000 beef and butcher cattle mostly
steady TO shade higher; plain wclghty
steers. slow best ycarlings, l!.5u' bulk
good and choice steers. lJ.5HN lT.21 q;
grassy kinds. mostly 5000 %; GooL
sows. S.oVa 1850; medium GRADES, 40 n
$50; Gamers 3.50Q3Sj: bulls stow |"
Csc lower; good boloKnas. i.2og n.1o;
commoner kinds. 1.s5m GOO. wal cal s"H
strong. l2.50@ 1850; i""'!"rs steady |"
strong Receipts western. ) 900. mr-
kct strong 10 l5c higher; bulk. $50 q
Ills.
Hogs. receipts. l2.O0"; m"sily -, -
2jc higher than y"sl"rd"y,> average,
closing weak with most of advance !"Si:
top early. 1850: bulk. light ana butch
rrs, l2.Ajm 1855. bulk p''k.n' s%M :,
l2.iOql24U: pigs. mostly -" h!Eh"I :
bulk. desirable. 20 10 i2"-r"unH I"B
around 1925.
sheep receipts. lT.""0: all grades
sheep and lambs closing steady To 2ac
lower than Tuesday, elise; iop natives
and western lambs. l3 10. bulk, natives,
Ia.nOmla7j: choice w"S. 7.0v: bulk. TT:
natives, a.T5GI $50; lr,dcr sheep AMI
lambs CSC higher; top feeder lambs,
40