The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-07
WHOLESOME TRUTHS

writer in recent issue Of the London Times,
tells the British government and Br1tons generally
several wholesome truths embraced in the following
paragraphs:
"What is needed now is frankness and under
standing about respective positions We should
rio ourselves once and for all IF the :doa that in
throwing over Mr.. Wilson's leadership the American
people have repudiated recognized pledges. Even
more important than that, we should be careful not
to give enemies among them-the German and
Irish Americans and their natlve-born allies Mr..
Hearst-opportunities of misrepresenting Their
Misrepresentation when politics are boiling and
any stick is good enough to beat opponent with,
are bound to be used sometimes quite sincerely, by
normally well-dlsposed people, Our supposed treat
ment Of India Egypt Persia, and Ireland will be
coriated in the next few months by many an Anglo
Saxon as well as Irish politician Many Anglo
Saxon as well as German-American business man be-
,ieves that under humanitarian professions we are
hiding an official lust for oil in Mesopotamia and
Persia and that the Prime Minister'S mysterious
Russian policies dictated by the City The British
mandates for the German colonies still often at
tributed to the Imperial acqusltiveness of London
rather than to the legitimate desire of present
Dominons to keep what they have won.
Need of British Frankness
"It should be realized that frankness and honesty,
especially now that the country is in full reaction
against the artificial intimacies of the war and
against the sentimentasm Of the early peace days,
pay over here better tnan anything else When all
is sale and DONE our standing is being hurt not so
much by suspicious that want to dominate Persia
Or monopolze the oil of Mesorotania or keep the
Turk in Constantinope to placate Tire Moaems in the
Empire, that want all the Russian trade.
by the susDicons that are being indirect and
hypocritical.
The American withdrawal from European poll
tics has been rendered more complete by that mis-
trust. There is however, no Fundamental reason
why the current GOODNESS toward Great Fri An
should be permanent, and still less why is should be
aggravated, if only we prevail upon states
men to stop shuffling their cards under the table,
The Americans have returned to realism after the
Utopian debauch of the last two years, We should
do the same Especially when, end it. the Irish CUES
ton is settled we afford to admit that foreign
trade and spheres of commercial influence are
a matter OF life and death to us, and that we uon-
sequenty mean to leave nothing reasonable undOne
TO get and keep them against al! corners. Americans
could not fairly resent that It a Republican
Secretary of State who invented dollar diplomacy"
to describe his policy of American trade consoda-
ton in this hemisphere. 1t was the present Demo
cratic Government which gave the British Govern
ment to understand that the exploitation Of COonl-
bian oil by British interests would be unwelcome.
On the other hand, to continue TO rrtate Americans
by SIMULTANEOUSLY pretending that it is still believed
that the United States ought to take ndate for
Armenia sin,pl; because Mr.. Wilson liked the idea.
and to nnue to try to excuse the results of
own blurd"rs by attributinp then t. the Withdrawal
of the United States from the Peace settlement and
above AL to continue the practice of h2!e-in-the-
diplomacy by amateurs. might 'rn::'e con-
:eivahlv produce consequences Of real gravity for
the Notwithstanding and, therefore, the whole
world"
Why add the weight of tc1o rows load to the
burden of this dav? The seas are not stormy enough
for ballast like that
The main advantage about modern slang is that
no one ever has to use his brains