The Tomahawk., 1921-06-23

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! And yet when Minnesota farmers
20 to the local banks to borrow little
money on good security to pay taxes,
they are told that money is too tight.
The small bankers are practically
helpless in the matter, but there are
reasons not flattering to our good
sense why we have no credit for our
selves and plenty of it for places over
seas.
WAR DEBT OF WORLD
An expert has figured out that the
financial burden which the world has
taken on since 1914 is $50 billions of
dollars. No one can imagine such a
sum. Perhaps some idea of it can be
obtained when we state that it would
buy every bit of property in the whole
United States and Canada.
And to whom does the world which
fought the war owe this great sum?
Not to some other world; not to
nations not in the war, but to indi.
viduals within the nations themselves.
To carry on war the soldiers went to
the front and they, with the rest Of
the people, paid this enormous price
to certain of their own citizens who
had property indispensable for war
purposes. They asked this price be-
fore they would let their governments
use it.
Labor throughout the world went
into the war with it's bare hands and
came out with it's condition worse than
! before. Farmers are in the same
boat. Only few of US came 'out with
more. And this $50 billions - the
wealth of North America-is roughly
measure of the extent to which the
few did not sacrifice for the war to
their full ability like the rest of us.
NEwBERRY INQUIRY STARTS
A senate committee began it's in
quiry into the election methods Of
Senator Newberry on June 8 and the
first session was a stormy one.
| John S. Newberry, brother of the
senator, testified that because of
Glove and affection and loyalty" he
had opened his bank account through
an agent for unlimited and unsuper-
vised campaign expenditures, concern
ing the amount of which he had never
inquired.
Henry Joy, Detroit capitalist, who
gave $45,000 to Newberry's primary
campaign, sent a physicians certifi-
cate declaring that he suffered from
heart ailment which made testifying
too dangerous. The process server
had found him having good time on
a private yacht. 80.
About two months ago the supreme
court reversed the lower court decision
against Newberry on the ground that
the law provided no regulation of pri-
mary elections.
Newberry posed as the loyal candi-
date, but the ring backing him evil
IDENTIFY had doubts about the loyalty
of Michigan; so huge sums were spent
to make the state "loyal." That Amer
icanism was not in danger, except
from Newberry's slush funds, is
shown by the fact that Henry Ford
was the rival candidate. .
HARVEY'S WAR AIM SPEECH
Editors are having much excitement
writing about Ambassador Harvey's
speech in London. Harvey told tho
London crowd that we didn't go to
war to destroy autocracy and make
! the world safe for democracy. We
went in, he said, to protect American
interests, chiefly trade with the allied
side. .>s:. - r. e,.zF ...
The editors all call it a blunt speech
and then proceed to support Harvey's
contentious. It was probably most
welcome because the alleged official
aims, used, as Capper's Weekly says,
to fire the imagination, have become
most troublesome to reactionary poll
ticians. Great masses of our people
really believed what Harvey now tells
US was mere war-selling talk and
should now be forgotten. H.. e.
In England the great selling point,
I"We're going to make this war the
last" has also proved troublesome
since. It is hard to explain to people
who believed this why wars have been
going on ever since and why II out of
II European nations are spending
more for war today than they did be-
fore the World war.
If any one but a prominent politi-
j clan had said what Harvey said in
i London he would have been denounced
4 as q traitor from one end of America
to the other. Yet Harvey and the ed
itors now declare that what he said
was only good sense. So we have had
good sense under the censorship for
some four years! @