Arizona republican., 1921-10-26
SHALL WE FORGET PAST AND START FAIR? HARDINC'S
 QUERY ID WORLD
ARMS FARLEY SETTLES DOWN TO SIMPLE FACTS; IF FOREIGN POWERS FAIL TO AGREE UNITED STATES CAN STAND TAX STRAIN
BY HERBERT COREY


 WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.-The more fue examines this forthcoming arms barley the simpler it seems to be- e That's a fact For weeks past the world has been weaving around it. reading hidden meanings into the most innocent phrases, and getting Uhite-eyed every time a piece of pa per blew across the international road. Now it seems that all the diplomatic embellishments can be stripped from it as one would strip a banana. The aEenda the world has been awaiting with so much shivering is as non complex as Jack Dempsey's fist.
 Shall we forget the past and start fair2" is the query addressed by the United States to the other powers interested in the East.
 IT the answer is yes" then China iS assured of the right to trade with whom she wishes and where she wishes She will again become a self roxerning and self-respecting nation. Her rights will not be infringed through the medium of any trade azrcement or railroad compact or r.ort lease. or any other trick or de- vice. She will be on precisely the sarne plane that all the other nations are.
 IT the answer is "no"-well. it has been made fairly plain hereabouts that ff the answer is mo" the United States can stand whatever grief may come about as well as any of the other nations can Diplomats Of some other nations got wrong idea about the position of the Harding admins tration some weeks ago. They thought that Mir. Harding had so committed himself and his admins trarion to the success of the arms barley that if some sort of an agree rneut were not reached for reduc- 1icn in armament he would be de- fcafed at the next election.
 There fore they seem to have said ta themselves. we have him caught in the door. He must agree to what we demand or he will be pinehed.''
 Old Style Diplomacy
 That is fine old style diplomacy huny old style diplomacy-but it isn't worth a nickel a bunch just now. MT. Harding isn't trying to sell peace and reduction in taxes and prosperity to the world He has simply opened the door to room in which these excel lent goods are displayed on table 1T the other nations refuse to come tn and help themselves the door will automatically close. It has been rath- CT funny to observe the characteristic reactions" of the old style diplomats to a wholly erroneous thought.
 Likewise the foreign office of al least one nation seems to have con clnded that the United States is get ting so restive under the burden of taxation that every time naval man proposes to buy a new gun the tax payers begin to shriek revolution Under the old style diplomacy the plan Of action was as simple a s 2 pump It having been discovered thai the United States was in hole the particular power alluded to seems tC have planned to throw rope:
 But before I take drag on thai cord. sam the power seems to have planned to say. what do l get? don't want to be rude about it, 5u come throughi Kick i'm"
 Uncle Sam Not Worried
 The plan was a corking good one and there is no room to doubt that i would have worked, if Sam had beer iu the hole But he wasn't. The American people are being taxed uI to the hole in the motometer, but a. the other people concerned in the east are being taxed clear to the top. We GO not want to keep on paying taxes at the present rate, but if necessary we can keep on paying long after the other peoples have quit. It's shame 10 be so American and bragsish, but ft is a fact The chances are the old style dipluuats to whom reference has been made were severely pained
 Another rather obvious thing ap- pears on a study of the agenda Somehow 8 lot Of US got the idea that there was Sir Galahad jauni in prospect in the east. Uncle Sam playing the hero of the piece, was tc gsIlop down stage. stage bow, cut loose China. the distressed damsel and Callop off r. u. e., with her in his arms. But he seems not to be plan ning to do anything of the sort. He plans to cut China loose, it is true but only a part Of his motives are al traistic. China has been given tho heavy end of the club, and we ar' very sorry. but it is also fact tha' China has a lot of trade, and WI want to get some of it. We art standing sturdily for fair play. but i is a double fair play we want. On'
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