Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-05-26
By CHAs. X. MccLATcHY

l | vast sums or money into allen IA
e holes for the benefit of othe
a peples?
Or is this straining drain upon tn
most generous country on the fac
of the globe to go on forever and
day?
Is America to progress in a polio.
of idiocy, and become and continu,
the only support of all the sufferer
elsewhere-lazy, ungrateful anC
fraudulent as well as deserving
in fact she practically is today?
Is she virtually, single-handed, tt
keep on succoring, feeding, sustain
ing, propping up, "rehabilitating'
foreign Oliver Twists constantly cry
ing for more, the while many of hel
own overlooked charitable institu,
lions are in sad strains, and her own
needy children are neglected?
Observations Abroad Confirm
Before this writer left Sacramento
he was of the opinion that the good
men and women of the United States
should close their purses to the habit
ually importunate of other lands and
open their pocketbooks-fo the pre-
sent at least--solely to their own peo>
pie
Before he left Sacramento, he re,
fused personally to give another cop
per cent to any appeal or drive, no
matter under what guise, that had
for its object the distribution of
charity across the seas.
And-with all due respect to any
and all who may view the matter in
a different light-his observations
over here have settled him firmly in
that determination.
The motto of the citizenship of
America now should be: Millions for
charity at home; not one cent to scat
ter abroad
Stop the Foreign Drain.
The people of the United States
have done infinitely more than their
duty. They probably have outstrip,
ped those of all other Nations put
together in giving to the unfortunate
of other lands. 1t was well done; it |
was nobly done--4f,a1d ne pan or wo
!!Iisan with heart and soul begrudges |
all that enormous outgoing flood of
wealth.
But it is high time now to stop
that foreign drain The children of
Uncle Sam who have been blessed
with this worlds goods should open
their eyes at home, where they have
been blind, and turn their thought
% their own poor, who have been
neglected for alien broods.
Yours Truly understands that Cal
fornia, as well as all other States,
has recently been the scene of an,
,ther furious drive" for more
money to send abroad-this time for
Near East Relief; and that that drive
yirtually was converted into a drive
~ the United States Government,
which backed and sustained it.
If that Government is going into
hat kind of paternalism, why does it
lot become paternal to her own? Did /
-nyone ever hear of Uncle Sam en-.
ineering and backig, or even Of
icially assisting and encouraging. a
rive to obtain money to relieve the l
of his own people-and
Tod knows there are enough who,
eed such relief?
Home Charities Neglected
A woman of great experience in
ospital, orphan-asylum and general J
harity work in San Francisco and
writes that she protested to
ertain bankers against this latest n
rive; that they agreed that thel
merican people had done far more C
ian their duty abroad, and that it il
as high time now to look to home; j
ut that it was practically 80 Gov l,
drive" and that they felt Ell
ley should help.
And this good woman writes that. p
lille this wonderfully generosity to ri
lens continues and is pushed for pl
ard by Government encouragement ia
Id aid, numbers of most worthy ri
aritable organizations around the fe
ly-even orphan asylums-a in
dly straitened circumstances, and al
ay have to close for lack of funds pl
ImD0sing Upon Americans Sc
Is it not about time that you good W
ople of California reached the con W
lsion--and profited thereby, and W
cordingly--that Charity should not tn
ly begin at home, btu should stay sV
ere? sp
Do you hntik the Lowly One who ju
id: Suffer little children to come sa
TO me" will reward you for neg.
ting the poor one of your country sa
your own doors, while yu scatter Nj
oney to those in alien lands?
Do you know what the people over
re think of you? They look upon r.