Evening star., 1925-06-28

debtors-he has grown too wise for that-but
ne does want square deal and ne wants TO
expect the nations of Europe to go out of their
way to trade with America because they owe
America money On the other hand. ne
doesn't think they ought to go out of their
way to avoid trading with him because they
him money. He is familiar with the
spectacle of the man who up a big bill
at the corner grocery, then goes somewhere else
to trade for cash. He has a very strong susp
cion that this is what Europe is doing today.
or seeking to do, and he wants TO know
about it.
All Interested in Question.
There is no one in America who has not
a direct and personal interest in these ques-
tions. The farmer sees the doors of Europe
being closed to his grain and meat products,
and he knows he is hurt thereby. The cotton
planter the Lancashire spinners securing
the world and spending huge sums of money
to develop other sources of cotton supply, and
he wonders how successful they are being
and what 1t may mean to his future. The
manufacturer and the workers in his factory
see their markets abroad being taken away
from them by the British. the Germans and
other Europeans, often by methods which
Americans think unfair and they wonder to
what extent this unfair competition is made
possible by American dollars which have been
loaned to Europe. All the American people
interested in the upbuilding of an Ameri-
can merchant marine, and they know their
Government is perplexed to how to get IT
upon paying even a self-sustaining basis
They have heard stories about unfair dis
elimination by European shippers, encouraged
by their governments, against American ships.
and they want to know to what extent these
stories are true.
In other words, the American people a
whole about at the point of making up
their minds as to what Americas attitude
toward Europe shall be in the years immedi-
ately ahead, and to help them make up their
minds intelligently they want all the unbiased
and dependable information they can get, and
want it in understa ndable terms. They
fed up on the outputtings of self seeking pol
iticans who try to play on American preju-
dices to advance their own political fortunes
They are equally fed up the propaganda
of innumerable interests which have innumer-
able to grind
Wants All the Facts
What the average American wants is
opportunity to take good look at Europe
through American eyes. He wants the facts.
whether they agree disagree with his pre-
conceived ideas. and when he has the facts
he will arrive at his own conclusions. he
wants, with intelligent understanding, to make
up his own mind. and he doesn't intend some
one else shall make it up for him.
am in Europe to do what can in a mod
est way to help get the average American
the unvar Finished facts he wants. Through the
courtesy Of State and Treasury Depart
ments, Departments Of Commerce and
Agriculture, I will have access to our dtplo
matte and consular officers. our Treasury
agents our commercial attaches and agricul-
~tural commissioners in Europe. 1 shall talk
also to officials of the European governments
and to European bankers and business men,
but before / accept at face value what they
tell me l shall check up their statements with
own representatives.
For it would have been a waste of time to
have come to Europe merely to pass along
European propaganda. We have oceans OF
that home.
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