Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-07
END THE "HALF.WAY" POLICY.

II the United States could only get sway
from the partial" Limited" halfway
method of acting in connection with inter-
national problems and go in whole-heartediy 10
help clean things up as we did when the war
was on there is good reason to believe the pres
emit unsettIement and unrest would soon be
brought to an end and normal conditions wouid
be speedily restored.
Under the policy adopted by the government
sve1 since the leadership was taken from WOOD
rok Wilson, America seems to be afraid to do
q ything in which other nations are involved
Or fear of becoming mixed up In European
AFFAIRS. But it must be apparent to anyone VINO
considers worldwide problems at all that Ameri-
ca cannot isolate herself even If she would.
Our business is directly affected by condi-
lions in Europe. without foreign markets we
cannot sell our goods, especially our copper
cotton and other raw materials. AS long as the
rate Of exchange in currency remains as IT Is
We cannot hope to prosper Is we should. with
three-fourths of all the gold that exists CEN
tered in this country and with New York the
financial capital Of the world, we cannot expect
70 b. let alone.
Our far flung possessions reaching to the very
shores Of Asia, with our cables and other lines
oe communication circling half way round the
slobe. We are bound to meet complications that
involve us in disputes with other nations. when
vs insist upon having our say in the settlement
AZ the war we have got to bear our portion OF
the RESPONSIBILITIES as well. We cannot expect
70 mare in all the good things and carry none
Of the burdens that go with them.
All these things must be realized by the
American people sooner or later in spite OF the
attitude Of such men as Senator johnson and
Senator Borah who would have us build a stone
wall Around the u. s. A. and have nothing
whatevAr to do with anything or anybody out
side. Fdrmer President Wilson was big enough
to size u1> the true situation and his policy was
to 70 into the task of making peace and restor-
ing normal conditions throughout the world In
the same thorough and energetic manner that
he led Ehe nation into the war. Had he been
allowed to have his way. the United States
today would be functioning at the head OF a
~rskt League Of Nations that would have stood
"A unit for just reparatios from Germany;
tSer3 woufa have been no opportunity for quib-
Bling. There would be no controversy over zap,
and the great Russian problem would be ad-
yanced a long way toward settlement. Dis
armament, for which people everywhere are
CRYING, would no doubt had been provided for
by this time and the end of the present oppres-
sion caused by great army and navy appropria-
lions would probably be in sight.
But, thanks to the personal hatred and spleen
shown by the United States senate under the
leadership of Senators Lodge. Knox and PEN
rose, woodrow Wilson's policies have been re-
pudiated. The whole foreign policy of the
United States has been thrown into a most cha
otto state. As John w. Davis. former ambassa-
dor to Great Britain. told the members OF the
Associated Press in an address delivered a few
days ago, the attitude of America toward the
problems that have followed the ending OF the
rreat World War still awaits definition, al
though two years and a half have passed since
the guns were stilled. What that attitude Is to
be America alone has the right to decide. but
the rest of mankind is we'll within its rights In
calling upon us for decision"
No doubt the main reason why the United
States has been unable to define her attitude