The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-05-13
SECRETARY HUGHES ASKS Justify FOR YlII|

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the treaty Of Versailles Japan .wss
given a. mandate over the isiand
taken from Germany, lying in. tho
far Pacific. north OF the equator.
One Of these islands ID sYap. The
United States. during the .admiris-
tration Of President Wilson. and
during the present administration.
asked for cable privileges on the
island. These; privileges, have been
granted by Japan. No treaty has yet
been made but Japan has agreed
to give this country equal privil-
eyes with all other countries for
cable service on the island. That Is
all there is to Mr.. Hughes. talk
about islands. ~ = -~. s"HF z,
The next item Of this remarkable
foreign policy is ''oil."" What oil has
Mr.. Hughes produced to American
Interests? ?" Ii it possible he claims
credit for American investments IN
oil interests In Asia Minor? But
those. investments were :. made In
1907. when Theodor Roosevelt was
president. -. p :
Commenced by Colby. =
True, since the World war, and
largely because Of the war. we have
had some misunderstanding and me-
sotlations with Turkey REGARDING
those investments. But those nego-
tlations were commenced by ecre-
tary Of State Colby, and were car
ried on by him up to the time he
went out Of office. =
Mr.. Hughes simply took the mat
ter over when he went into offica
as was his duty. Has he concluded
the negotiations? II so he has sim
ply concluded a work begun by. his
predecessor. These American inter-
ests in the Turkish empire in Asia.
Minor are the only oil. interests with
which Mr.. Hughes has had to do
| since becoming secretary Of state.
All his talk about "oil'' has been tn
reference to these investments. Is
this performance of official duty to
be- made one of the three. factors
constituting our foreign policy2
islands, Oil, Dollars"
What About Armenia? :
Right at this point there is a real
item Of the foreign policy Of this
Republican administration that Mr..
Hughes eulogist forgot. Armenia
and the Armenians! In the midst Of
the World war, when it was raging,
and eight years after the making OF
these American investments in Tur-
kish oil fields, Woodrow Wilson had
the moral and physical courage to
protest against Turkish massacres
Of Armenians. That protest. of Mr.
Wilson saved from slaughter rem.
nant-over a million-of this heroic
Christian people. ~. -.
During the summer and fall of
1921 the Turkish government carried
on a continuous massacre and
slaughter of the Armenian, people,
accompanied with acts Of cruelty;
ferocity, depravity and fiendish bars
barity unsurpassed in the history Of
the world. and no protest whatever
from this cowardly and pusiilsni.
nous administration. 49,:
Republicans Scored Wilson.
On pages ia and lis of the Re.
publican campaign Text Book tot
1920, there is an arraignment Of
Wilson in the matter of ArmentaH
persecution during the war, not that
he did not protest, but that he did
not protest. strong. enough. He did
protest, however, and saved over q
million Armenians, while President
Harding did not dare utter. word
Of protest in 1921, when no world
war was raging. "
- The third item OF this wonderful
foreign policy is dollars" Whether
it is the dollars the American
people had when Mr.. Hughes went
into office. or the dollars they
have lost since his entry the eulogist
failed to mention but he thought,
no doubt, the people would know.
And so we have" this remarkable
performance by the political party
in power heralded to the world as
it's foreign policy with the world in
the condition in. which it is. What.
a splendid place we will have in the
history Of the world. ,>-..s. = >. : s
- "1Iade So by the War"
In the year 1922, Immediately fol-.
lowing a World war, in which wo
were engaged, when all the nations
except America. were frantically
struggling to repair. the ruin and
save civilization. the United tates,
the strongest nation in the world
made so. by the war-the richest
nation in the world-made 50 by
the wsr-the creditor of all the ma
tions-made so by the war-holding
in its hands infinite possibilities and
opportunities for leadership-ths
world pleading for its leadershtDs
refusing to lead and declaring III
foreign policy to be Islands and oil
and dollars =
The writer Of these. character
sketches sums up Mr.. Hughes for
eign policy, and Republican esti-s
mate Of the American people. by de-
claring, A.. -
''And thinking Of our. dollars.
thanks to Mr.. Hughes, we are made
sane and whole, clearsighted and
unafraid, standing erect among the
(stricken) nations of the earth asks
ing Justify for ap." g. !.
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