Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-08-11
WAR DEBTS WILL
NOT Be CANCELLED
United States UnoffiCialIy In
forms England of Its Stand.
B0RAH ISSUES STATEMENT
Idaho Senator Declares Senate Will
Turn Deaf Ear to Any Proposals
for Cancelations-Cites War
Preparations.

washington, Aug 4.-The Treasury
department served informal notice
upon Great Britain that her war debt
TO the United States cannot be can
celed. AT the same time Senator
Borah issued warning that the SEN
ate VIII turn deaf ear TO any pro-
posals for cancellation.
Inc Treasury department statement
was that Great Britains note to her
DEBTOR nations suggesting cancellation
OF the whole interallied Indebtedness
VIII have no effect upon this govern
ments policy with reference to it's
war credits. The fact that the note
was not addressed to the United
States makes it diplomatic impossi-
Dlllty for this government to address
Great Britain directly upon the sub
Ject. The statement was therefore
regarded as an indirect reply to the
British proposition.
Secretary Mellon takes the position
that Great Britain has formally ac-
knoWledged her war debt to this gov
eminent and has indicated her will
lngness to pay. Therefore he holds
the American funding commission
must continue it's negotiations without
regard to Great Britain's suggestion
for a general cancellation.
Senator Borah's Statement.
Senator Borah, in his statement, de-
clared: There is nothing to be
gained by our canceling this debt, or
any part of it, ii the gigantic military
and armament programs in Europe
aer to continue. 1t would amount in
practical effect to our aiding and abet-
ting the building up of these great
military and armament establishments
and thereby abetting war. If cancela-
ton is to be considered at ALL it
should be considered in the interest
OF humanity, of economic sanity and
not to enable these countries to build
up and maintain those military es-
adjustments, these great armies which
are now burdening and torturing and
threatening Europe, and which will
lead inevitably to greater suffering.
more misery and more war Within
the last week the premier of England
has declared:
Keep your eye on what is hap
pening. They (the nations of Eu-
rope) are constructing more terrible
machines than even the late war ever
saw. What for? Not for peace.
What are they for? They are not
even to dispense armies, they are to
attack cities unarmed where you have
defenselesS population, to KILL to
MAIN, to poison, to mutilate to burn
helpless women and Children
''NOw, if this is the situation and
this is the program and this cannot
be changed, it is more or less an i'm
pertinence to talk about canceling
debts in the name of economic re-
Mobilization. If these plans and
schemes are to continue, to go for
ward, we cannot help Europe by can
ceiling our debt to France, or any
part of it. l feel, therefore, that in
order to interest anybody who is in
terested in humanity, or the cause of
peace, or the restoration of economic
sanity, all schemes for canceling
debts should be accompanied by a
practical plan for disarmament.
Treaties Not Ratified.
1.-THE Washington conference adj
journed last February. The senate of
the United States ratified the treaties,
[ think, in April. The treaties are
yet, however, to be considered by for
eign countries. / observe by the press
dispatches that the assembly in France
has adjourned and that these treaties
will not even be considered before
October. They were not so much as
considered by the committee, accord
Ing to the same dispatch. And even
If they are ratified ultimately, the
spirit of the movement has been
crushed and the great cause of dis
armament halted and scotched by the
delav and utter loss of interest in the
proposition.
eff we cancel these debts it would
bppear therefore that it would simply
fiji into this scheme of ornaments Of
hinge land forces, of more wars, and
thereby more debts. So the vicious
rircle continues"