Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
BY HERBERT G. PELL. JR..

Former Member of Congress From New York.
There is in every part Of the world
a certain dislike of foreigners or OF
outsiders and of their customs. There
is throughout this country a feeling
of dislike for the city of New York.
In the South little good will be said
Of the Yankees. New England
despises the rest Of the Nation. The
average country man does not care
for his urban fellow citizens. This
distaste seems innate, but unless 1t Is
artihcially strengthened it will act
more as stimulant than as a
menace to peace and prosperity. NO
one will, just to satisfy spite, or
ganize an anti-New York movement
in the South or an anti-Western move.
ment in New England.
The dislike of foreign peoples is,
however, fostered in this and in other
countries by a. very expensive or
ganized propaganda supported by in
dividuals who expect to get a pront
from some special privilege granted
by their government, usually in re-
turn for political contributions, but
ostensibly to protect the people from
some foreign DOGGY set up by the
propagandist 1t is quite true that
no politicians. and certainly none or
those who make use OF them, are con-
sciously DESTROYS Of war, but each one
feels that his own game can be I'M
proved a great deal at an apparently
small public cost.
They believe that a little local sus-
picion and dislike Of foreigners is un-
likely to have much effect one way
or another on great international
questions and it may be Of real use
in justifying their legislative servants
in voting them special favors. Each
one is doing his bit to add to that
explosive mass of hatred which, If it
be great enough, may at the coming
of q spark result in a tremendous
catastrophe.
One of the most important lessons
of the war which has hardly been con.
sidered by the public is that drawn
from the unity of Germany.
Less than SO years before 1914 Prus-
STA and Bavaria were at war. The
King of Bavaria in 1914 carried a
Prussian bullet in his body. Yet, after
the most stunning defeat experienced
by any great nation in recent years.
with the SCATTERING of all the govern
ments of Germany, there has been no
serious move to revive the lndepend-
ence of Bavaria. And why? For more
than half a century there has been no
private profit to be gotten in Berlin
out of popular hatred Of Bavaria or
of Hamburg. A Berlin brewer cannot
ask for protection against the pauper
hops of the wicked Wittelsbach. so he
either makes his beer cheap or good
or goes out of business.
1t is worth remembering that what
happened in the nineteenth century to
Germany happened to Italy. too, and
to every other nation in Europe at
some earlier time, and it is worth re-
membering that the nations of Eu-
rope became solidified within them
selves only as they did away with in
ternal economic barriers. There are
only two cases that the union has not
been .sDermanent-Norw and Sweden
and Belgium and Holland. Except for
these cases, no Independent govern
ments have ever coalesced and de.
stroyed the tariff wall between them
and ever afterward willingly sepa.
rated On the other hand. no ALI
ance in which the economic barriers
between the contracting nations were
maintained has ever outlasted the
crisis which brought it into existence
We can study this question in the
United States itself. This country
today is the biggest free trade area
in the world. 1t is the largest and
most divergent economic unit. There
is. of course. natural and healthy re-
gional rivalry. There are local preju.
dicse which. within bounds. do more