The Washington times., 1922-01-04
Real "Americansm."


Editorial in Boston Herald December ESQ.,
THANK God for France, the one nation,
IN the world not dominated by Great Brit
ain. 80
We la France! The one nation not
doormat for Great Britain to 'o'pe her feet
"Hurrah for France, the one nation
'oorked on the financial wires Of tho inter
national bankers.
"Good for France, the nation that knosos
there Is not any suggestion of genuine dts
armament at Washington.
"Three cheers for France, the one nation
does nOW e1ist bet,Oeen England and Japan,
no matter how much England may he
about 1t.
"France knows that the International
bankers soho run our government are not
really international bankers, but British
proposals of America at the conference are
really the proposals of England made
through the interna tional bankers. France
kn0aOs there Is no use remaining at con-
ference 'ohere England runs Japan Through
secret alliance and the United States
through the International bankers.
France knows ,ohdt our innocent, gul-
ibLe statesmen at Washington never 1oll
know. France is wise to '0hot decetres
our soft and simple statesmen, our ercel-
sior-stntfsd statssmen auth their abundant
tUhiskers. y"
And so on. This is part of the proclo-
nation of one ,Uho holds himself to be
;"good upstanding American" one of the
"few wko. are left" He plaeards his
proclamation in big type over the front
page of the paper he labels "American."
The restraint and Judicial poise Of the
citations above from the proclamnatiomn Of
Americans who are left." The stotesnron-
like quality of this proclamation makes it
,oeighty contribution to the discussions
of the time.
Only q profound student of International
affairs could have Dritten It. No one con
90 ,vrong as to its authorship. II is signed.
"William Randolph Hearst"
THE Hearst papers are exceed
ingly appreciative Of the COM
pliment which the Boston Her
aid, no matter how unwittingly and
unwillingly, pays them and their
editor.
In fact, any criticism from an
American newspaper with snobbish,
subservient, pro British policies,
would be regarded as a compliment
by any good American.
But the Boston Herald must not
be too sure that "no one could go
wrong as to the authorship" of the
plain American document quoted.
There are quite an imposing num-
Der of "good outstanding Ameri-
cans" left.
There were enough who voted
against Wilson's pro-British views
to give Harding 100000 majority
at the last Presidential election; and
there are enough who will vote
against the pro-British acts of the
present Republican Administration
to give the Democratic candidate
100000 majority at the next Presi-
dental election.
There are also quite a number of
good outstanding Americans who
write patriotic American articles for
patriotic American newspapers.
One of these good Americans is
James It. Williams, jr., editor of the
Boston Transcript, a nationally
known newspaper even little more
conservative than the Boston Her.
aid and a great deal more genuinely
and periodically American than the
Boston Herald.
This is what the editor of the
Transcript says about the contribu-
ton which France makes to up
standing Americanism so lacking in
our diplomatic representatives:
A result Of the vacillating course our.
sued by our delegation, the secrecy and
the timidity and the evasion with which
they have dealt with the American public
in regard to the submarine, the American
Government at this moment appears
tempted to abandon its historic attitude
as the champion of the rights Of small
nations, AZ the defender Of legitimate sub
marine warfare. In this humillating CIR
cumstance the average American and bis
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