The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-16

declares however parayzes hopes the
American people"
WILL AROUSE HATRED
Unfortunately, does than that it parayzes the
hopes early restoration of Europe condemns untold
death by starvation misery If checked
it will undermine the fabric Of civilization in Europe 1t
stamps again upon the American ideals the and by that
much makes the whose dead
certainly for no such purpose as this It
utterly brutal because it based neither upon right justice
but merely upon naked force cowardy beyond because
it not only hitting who is down but who and
bound and gagged
OF course CHASTITY move will have no such result as the
French DESIRE It viii yield them they believe
1t will in the German people the bteres hatred which
there not trace 1919 and probably make impossible any
such pact the chancellor recently offer
ed to France puts off indefinitely any reconciliation of these
two great peoples More than that drives deep wedge between
Britain and France For all the obesances expressions
goodwill voiced by BOnar Law and Poncare it only
the growing hatred between France and England
whose divergent commercial and economic aims brought
DESTROYS FAITH IN FRANCE
But deplOrabe than that is the this
aggression strikes deadly blow at that wonderful
goodwill and affection which accumulated by COM
radeship Of the war.
Were not for the immediate human misery which this
mOnsous act of the government will cause we should
be tempted to that this destruction Of moral values
than the material losses In the long run it will be-
One people cannot lose faith in another people they
had given such enthusiasm unqualified faith and sup
port without becoming suspicious and cynical More than that
nothing could be for the morale the entire world than
to have the French world should
striving to substitute the Of of goodwill the
teachings Of the Savior for the abOmnaon Of war and the rule
OF the larger baaons the French undertaking to prove
again that Bismars policies correct ones that it only
the mailed fist which counts that the uses MEANS that
have the anything you please that you
may debase your soul for temporal advantage.
AMERICA NOT WITH FRENCH
Where American public opinion will stand we have no cues
ton The fact that The New York Times Tribune SUD-
port the move proves that the heart and soul Of America will
be with the French
Senator King is right when he declares that vnpathv will
now be given to Germany Frances psychoogcay
bunder Senator Hitchcock Nebraska; Senators Walsh and
Wheeler Montana Senator Williams Mississippi are alike in re-
prObatng the action Of France John Sharp Williams bitterly
that Of the allies and the World war and that of
peace and goodwill among at this She has helped
nobody EARTH possibly the Russian sovets and their
dream of sovetzng Germany"
FRANCE WILL BE LOSER
Senator Hitchcock clearly that shorsghted violent
adventure Of masm has only deprived France of moral
support but that she herself will be of the sufferers
OF her desperate policy WhenOne considers that petit
toner at the doors congress remission Of her debt to-
the United States and for permission delay interest BAY
ents thereon the folly and stupidity of POncare policy become
perfectly apparent What would she decided to use our
fleet to compel the payment Of the money she by pacific
blockade of her ports?
Can additional that France succeeds in wringing
from Germany by this huge cost of the occupation
the additional troops she occupy the Rur and to
take the place of the American troops now returning to their
home posts No American sympathy has always with the
nderdog Our whole tradition and history dsposes us to gem
erOsy toward the beaten fe We forget the aonan
nifty accorded to the south 1866 only by Grant personally
at AppOmattO but by the government itself We know that
while force used in the reconstruction of the south it pro-
duced only harm and lasting bitterness and discord.
SENTIMENT AGAINST FRANCE
No. the moral opinion Of the world will henceforth be solid
y aayed against France There doubt where the workers
of the world will stand One of the powerful bodies on
the international Trade Union has just unann
Ousy at The Hague against further French occupation Of