Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

France declines to pay a dollar of it,
with all this captured property she
is paying the cash into her own
strong boxes.
England last year paid a little of
her interest account. She is build
ing battleSlfips-and also controls the
commerce of the world. Money is
pouring through great sluice gates
into her strong boxes.
Here in the United States the tax
payers are ground down by enormous
taxation to pay the interest on Lib
erty bonds-issued to aid Great Brit
ain and France to carry on the war.
Our people got nothing, and will get
nothing hereafter, if the propaganda
lists among us can be kept in the pay
Of English and French financery. We
have thousands of wounded soldiers
in veteran hospitals. We are spend
ing twelve millions day to care for
these sick, MANNED, gassed and blind
ed soldiers in hospitals. They aver
age $143 per month to- each man
and these English and French people
get abundant money out of Germany
in the taken-over territory to pay
all that is needed to take care of
the American wounded in hospitals.
We sent billions of money during the
War-through Red Cross, Salvation
Army and Relief societies-to care
for soldiers in American, in British
and in French camps and hospitals.
The expense we incurred was monu-
mental to aid them against Germany.
Not a dollar of such donations will
ever be returned to the taxpayers
and benevolent people of the United
States. They were donations.
England had plenty of ships afloat
during the continuance of the war
and yet British ship owners
charged us full price for the trans
portation of American soldiers, who
went over there to prevent Germany
from overrunning England. and
which American army saved the
throne to King George, a full cousin
to the Kaiser, who lost his throne
thereby.
have never yet interviewed a re.
turned American soldier, of sane
habits and calm mind, who ever de-
sired to go back over there, to fight
for nothing and for such ungra teful
folks.
Germany would have taken over
much territory if Germany had been
the victor. For a century to come,
Germany will hate America, because
we helped Great Britain and France
to overcome Germany. We con-
scripted our young soldiers by the
mlllion-to war service. We combed
the United States as with a fine
toothed comb, to get them all who
were liable to the call. We estab-
hshed army camps all over the
United States. That war has cost
this country more than twenty-five
billions of dollars, ten billions OF
which was loaned to the allies. We,
the taxpayers, will never see nor
hear of relief during our time For
fifty years. we will be obliged to pay
interest on this bonded indebtedness,
If the republic survives that long.
England and France are getting
back what they spent and the United
States is not getting even a. dollar
Of interest from France and but lit
tie from England. Not a single eff
fort has shown itself to do anything
over there to pay the money that
was extorted from American taxpay-
ers and loaned to those who have
secured their enormous claims out of
Germany.
There is an old adage about "greas.
ing fat SOW" Great Britain and
France are what might be called fat
sows. They are greasing themselves
and [ ask again:
Why shouldn't they be made to
pay their honest debts to us?