The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-04-22
Is AMERICA TO BLAME?

and other newspapers of the same
sion pointing the present deporaDe
in the evidence of the fatal mistake which this conn
try made in rejecting Versailles and the League
Nations covenant
CourerJounal recent editorial in this tone quotes
Mr. Harding the Federal Reserve Board on the o
eign trade suat declares that Mr. Wilson, three years ago
wared country that isolation of the United States from othe
nations would spell economic disaster
Mr. Harding does not suggest The CourerJoua
eses to believe that had we accepted Wilson's advice ratified
the Versailles treaty the League of Nations Europe
would prosperity home assured and everything
oda! would have as merry as a marriage bell
Ths of assumption The Leader has repeatedly
sought draw from those who hold this view some specifications
which would serve to demonstrate Just different
part would have accomplished the salvation OF the world
How precisely the conclusion that had the
United accepted the Paris conference and entered
into European SYSTEM the within three would have
ten qudated huge debts lifted credit restored industry
vved the of the conflict repaired the
destruction of values compensated the ancors and ami
oses eXtpated the equilibrium recovered
and the worlds wounds healed?
would have been Large order for the American
people What would it have attempt colossal
Certainly while just how much would have
involved selevdnt that this would have been so
Intimately vitality associated with European affairs political
nomc financial that dssocate ourselves would
have been hopeless.
Furthermore it is equally certain that our would
been drained away undertaking which would have laid
upon burden than that of other nation in the world
the eleven billion dollars loans would have been
TN insignificant transaction by comparison
Lloyd George in his address at Genoa, said
Europe exhausted with its fury with the loss OF blood and
involved staggering under the colossal burdens debt
PREPARATION enaed The pulse of beating r
wildly in artificial activity is stimulated either de-
repairing the of by OF thrift h.
the frugal and industrious among the people but Legitimate trad"
and industry everywhere dsogan2cd and depressed
little further speaking of the absence of the United Stat
the British Premier said
However much that has happened and happening in Europ
makes Americans cautious in interfering in affairs n
these things right h sconence feel Amc Wi
merely come in hut come in gladly
The American people have always been read cooperate viii
:he people OF Europe effort repair the and de
strucon of whenever Europe shows disposition witt
itself scrap Its huge standing armies balance its bud ac
work, and erappe with realities As Lloyd corg" said "Wh
is the first need OF Europe'-peacc real peace
This the League Of Nations has failed provide the Va
hsies treaty has made 1t far mpossibleexnon Lender
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Answering criticisms OF their dcilaiion record tho Dcnoc
y they sinred the dlation aud that II they b.
criticised al 4 slOuld BIZ TOR not starting II sooner
Philadelphia North American European nations p,g..l
willing have Uncle sam join their little financial game he pu
T. hoy take,