The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-24
AN ECONOMISTS ADVICE

Slr George Pa1Sh'S criticism of Amerlca for its action in raising protective tariff wall and his charge of contributory wrongdoing in international developments, that threaten ip-
 creasing chaos, will be listed by the American people as just another illumination from inter
 ested foreign sources aimed at placing this na-
 tion in wrong with the rest of the world and at
 shifting the burden of responsibility for Flu
 rope's indebtedness to America and applying | it to the tariff measure Sir George speaks with
 a pretense of authority that many deceive
 some Americans. But why should he waste
 wisdom on country that does not need it,
 when his own is so sorely in need of his genius? | The grievance voiced by this visitor is
 against the tariff in particular and against
 Americas lack of the sort of idealism that
 European nations apparently think it ought to
 have in general. He does not openly ask for
 remission of the British debt Indeed, spokes-
 men of the London Government and free lance
 exponents of British views seem to have agreed
 to stress that nations ability and intent to pay
 and-in line with this accord among British lspokesmen-Si George avoids urging cancella- ton as the way out l Sir George Pash states that if America is to be paid by Great Britain, it must take pay
 ments in goods of other nations. Then, to show the sheer altruism of his philosophy, he l lilluminatPs his argument with the observation |that the United States should open it's markets to the cheap labor goods of Europe, As Great
 Britain has 2,500000 unemployed, the opening of the American market on free trade basis would soon transfer the unemployment problem to the United States.
 The American Government, by raising pro- Ifont hot uiH off fbn ton and its interests from unfair competitor with European cheap labor, has simply directed its efforts to protection of its own This is the head and front of its offending. But, to Sir George Paish it is an international crime that staggers an observing world with its enor- Imity. He does not say that America should
 cancel the British debt-far be it from him
 openly to depart from the program on this lsubject-but he says that America should leave ftlie'waF open for Great Britain and other cred itors to pay in goods. He does not appeal to America to let it's debtors off, but to let them ruin it by flooding its markets with products that would paralyze American industry and throw the nation into the same economic slough as that in which Europe is now struggling By raising this<wall, Sir George says, Amer- lea contributes to the general economic chaos When has the protection of America for Amer- cans become an international crime? It i'll be- comes an exponent of foreign views thus to lseek to saddle this nation with blame that properly lies at the door of his own and other European governments. By indulging in an orgy of greed and extravaganza, and by refus- ling to make sane peace, the European gov |cInments have brought about a, situation that threatens their ruin If America would come n throw open its markets, assume their bur dens, take over all their problems that do not promise reward in territoroy or strategic gain, and thereby leave them free to pursue their linttrigues, every thing would be lovely. Wash lington Post