The Seward gateway., 1921-01-27
HOW LONG!

How los5 are the American psopls' going to continue to clothe, feed md finance the nations of Eurvpei This is a question which depends entirely upon the American people. They vii! continue to clothe, feed and finance the people of Europe just so long as the people of Europe refuse to work for their clothes food and moneyt they will continue just as long as sympa- thetic propaganda Is circulated broaa cast throughout the nation. They will continue just as long as they believe the pitifully exaggerated stories pub lished in our daily papers and maga-. zines. They will continue just as long as pride and the fear of ridicule pre- vent them from saying, "Not Not one penny for foreign peoples until oui ,wn are properly clothed and fed"
 They will continue just as long as thu
 oleadings of some overly fed and
 overly paid official appeals to their
 generosity and arouses their compas'
 sion. They will continue just so long
 IS master penmen are able to portray
 ,cenes of misery and write descrip,
 i've "Sob Stuff" We are not ques'
 ioning the authenticity of MT. Her
 ,ert Hoover's statement that there
 Ire thousands of hungry children 1T
 Europe and we are certainly not say
 ng that the sum of ssS. 100000 is not
 efficiently large to feed a great num-
 ger of these hungry children, neither
 10 we contend that it is our business
 q interfere with individual acts of
 .harity when the individual sees fit
 O donate his. or her money to any
 ause whatsoever. What we are ob- :ectine to is coercion and the practi- :al forcing of people to donate who
 :annot really afford to do so, but who
 To do so simply because they fear the finger of public opinion and because stronger minds and silvery tongues force them to do that which they would not do of their own free will. The War caused much suffering and misery among the peoples of Europe. This suffering and misery still ex- ists in many sections of the continent and will continue to exist, just 50 long as the nations of Europe continue to fight and squabble among themse'v We admit that this suffering and mis cry is a sad thing to witness and at he same time we admit that our mil
 ions will do much toward allaying he suffering and misery of Europe. Right here in our own United States through this period of war reconstruc ion we are facing a serious problem ,f our own. Factories and manufactur
 ing plants are shutting down by the score. Small stores and large stores are closing their doors. Mines and ,ailroads are curtailng their working forces. Millions of men and women nave been forced out of employment turing the past six months. Soup zitchens and bread lines are being established in most of the large cities and men, women and children are hungry and growing more hungry md destitute as the weeks of unem- oloyment go by. The new Republican on the Fourth of this coming March will face . condition hat will require the most strenuous effort, on the part of those who have been elected by the people to handle the reins of the government during he next four, years, before we can nope to adjust certain conditions as hey should be adjusted. Our own peo ole who will work if they can work will be unable to do 50 simply because he retrenchment era will necessitate lime to work out safe and sane sys- ;em of stability. While this system is being worked out there will be many many hungry childrenjin our own cit-' es and the fact that there will De and