New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-19
DISARMAMENT
FIGHT EXPOSED
UNITED STATES MAY SOON BE
PAYING TRIBUTE TO
o ALLIES. CLAIM.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION
SEEKS TO HooDWINK
THE PEOPLE.

J. A. H. Hopkins, exc cutive chair
man of the Committee Of AZ, has sent
us letter containing inside informa-.
ton relative to the disarmament in
trigue, which should cause all red
blooded AMERICANS to wake up to the
fact that the. Republican administra4
ton is attempting to. sell out. the
United States TO Great Britain and,
her allies during the World war for a
mere song. Chairman Hopkins CONF
munication is filed with sensational:
disclosures based upon the action Of
President Harding and other Kel.
publican leaders in connection with this,
very vital matter. Here is his letter: I
Dangers Ahead.
We are familiar with the rules of war
under which the Allies are collecting
huge indemnity from beaten Germs
many. But, do the American people
realize that, unless they take active
steps to prevent it, victorious America
may soon be paying similar tribute
to the Allies, whom she rescued from.
overwhelming. disaster at the most
critical period in their history?
The machinery designed to bring
this about is already in motion, and it
is high time to tell the truth about the
disarmament conference, in which the
people, as a whole, are vitality con-
cerned, and to determine what in
structions the American people desire
given to Messrs. Lodge, Hughes, Root
and Underwood, whom President Hard
ing has appointed as their official
representatives. t
49, To Be nefit Bankers.
Called for the purpose of bringing
about disarmament and world peace,
and forced upon a reluctant and I'M
sympathetic administration in re-
Spouse to popular sentiment, the con-
ference is fast being transformed into a
sordid effort to further the interests Of
the international banking syndicate
at the expense of our already over
burdened taxpayers.
How is this being accomplished?
The situation is clear-the process is
simple.
The European nations owe America
millions of dollars extracted frem
American taxpayers under stress of
war, on which they have never paid
one dollar, either of interest or prin-
cipal.
The English, French, Belgian and
Italian delegates frankly admit that
they are seeking to utilize this occasion
to obtain release from their debts.
I Wants Autocratic Power.
Realizing that the public discussion
of this subject before the disarm lament
conference would arouse a whirlwind
OF indignation, President Harding an.
nounces that he is opposed to any such
course, but demands that Congress
without delay, specifically confer upon
Secretary Mellon full power to private
ly settle these obligations upon any
terms he may deem advisable. And
Secretary Mellon has personally ap-
peared before the Ways and Means
Committee demanding immediate
action.
CONFIDENT with this demand comes
a suggestion from the banking group
Ito which Secretary Mellon formerly
belonged) that q concurrent conference.
with the European delegates be held,
while the disarmament conference is
in session, to adjust the financial
situation.
: Would Betray America.
Every angle Of the situation bristles
with deceit and secret diplomacy,
every indication points to a betrayal
of the just demands Of the American
public who paid until it hurt to
assist our Allies in their extremity
and are now inc imminent danger Of
being told that the money they gener-
aolsly loaned to England, France,
italy, and Belgium in good faith will
never be returned, and that for years
to come they will be asked to make up
these. vast sums, which the European
nations, with an almost unbelieva Bile
effrontery, are now seeking to re-
pudiate.
Il Audit is proposed to bring this about
through a separate secret conference,
under carte blanche authority, in
which the American people will have
no voice and Of whose decision they
will know nothing until too late.
II Anticipating precisely the situation
Which has since developed and fore
seeing the necessity Of forestalling the