The Washington times., 1922-03-12
| Have Only Myself
To Blame
Being q Near-Politico
Biography of Uncle Sam

now about our rights In mandated
territories? At Paris at the end
Of the war we were the biggest ma
ton present--the nation with the
most power and with the most
prestige-ciothed with the crown
Ing glories of the Meuse. Argonne
and OF st. Mihiel, and clothed also
with the solid armor Of most Of the
worlds gold supply.
Whatever rights we wished reso-
lutely to demand for ourselves nj
that moment were ours. We chose
then to yearn for the worlds rights.
Nov we pine for our own. M.
Clemenceau did not ask us to pine
for the worlds rights.
We have only ourselves TO blame.
The Germans arc paying US nott-
ing on the cost Of our army OF
occupation In Germany. They are
paying the French and the British.
4 great deal on the costs Of their
armies Of occupation. We have
precisely the same treaty rights In
this matter that the French and the
British have. They have not ask, d
VI W ASbeAN AhOh oDtu6 eAASCo
rights. We have only ourselves to
blame.
The British are getting the in
side track In the revolution of Rus
STA back to world trade. We did
not want. to invade Russia in 1918.
The British did. In the end we
went along with them. Then VIC
kept on going along with them
when they had stopped going alonS
with themselves.
They made q treaty with Rus
sia in 1921. We cannot curse
them out, both for influencing VI
in 1918 and for failing to influ-
ence us In 1891.
Now when we sell shoes to Rus
sia we clear the Transaction
through London and pay the
British q commission. II we do
not like It, we ought to like II.
It 10 the result Of our own policy.
We have only ourselves to ad-
mire or blame.
We could finance China by our
own solitary American financial
power. AuSteoo We oBouAAO
"consortium" under which China
IL to be financed by US and
France and Britain and Japan.
The Chinese then refuse to be
financed. They object to . for
eign financial monopoly. We lose
that business. We lose the pros
pect Of an Americanized Chinese
Industrial future.
We have only ourselves to
blame.
We get uneasy because France
and Britain do not pay US their
debts and spend q lot OF their
incomes on expeditions in Syria
and Mesopotamia, and elsewhere.
Did we ever ask them to quit that
kind Of adventuring and get back
to considering their previous OBJ
legations to US?
Most certainly not. We have re.
trained from trying to collect
those debts and have asked for
nothing in return for refraining
from trying to collect them. Ask
ing for nothing, we most Justly
and inexorably have got nothing.
We have only ourselves to
Now at last. in return for hav-
ing given the Allied armies the
final weight which made the push
which downed Germany and
saved the Allied countries. we
have got q cable landing in Yap.
We demand 1t. So wa got IT.
That Is what happens whenever
we actually genuinely demand.
Some day we may demand some
thing .dorth demanding at the
moment when the demanding ia
not an echo Of vreat opportunities
gone by. Meanwhile our mood Is
one Of Illustration and therefore
of irritation. We dislike the for.
eisners more than IL we had
stood up for what was coming
to US and had got II.
1t is to be supposed that the
Princess Bibesco will Of course
some day write a book about us.
She could not find a better title
than:
THE Irritated Americans, or,
They Have Only Themselves to
Blame"