Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-29
AMERICAN Cash
FOR AMERICA IS
PLEA OF BORAH
Idaho Senator Would De-
velOp United States In
stead of Europe

DENVER, Colo, June % GA
call to the government and the nation
to turn their attention and effort
to reconstruction at home rather than
in Europe was made here tonight
by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho.
Speaking at the 23rd annual con-
vention of the International Adver-
tising association, the chairman of
the senate foreign relations commit
tee said he was more interested in
placing the Mississippi flood sufferers
back in their homes, in the construc-
ton OF the Great Lakes-to- the
Atlantic waterway and the Harvesting
OF the Colorado river than he was
"in the delusive effort to air Europe"
Referring specifically to recent
over production of oil and to the
Mississippi flood, Senator Borah said
it was clear that the nation should
turn its attention to working out
an intelligent and permanent ma
tiOnal policy to conserve, for the use
of all, the marvellous natural wealth
with which the country had been
endowed.
Senator Borah declared the cam
collation. of part of the debts owed
by the European countries and the
1oaning of American billions to
Europe served but little in recon-
Struction there
I'VE are not helping the people
OF Europe but the war makers of
Europe" he warned. "The history
of Europe during the past 80 days
has in it every element of strife
which preceded the war.
''The premier of Italy in a public
speech declares that he is on the way
men, to the building Of a great navy
and to the reconstruction of an air
force second to none in the world.
''The break between Great Britain
and Russia, the assassination of the
Russian minister in Poland the exc
ctltions in Russia, have made Europe,
mentally and spiritually, an armed
camp. Last Sunday q week the
premier of France, at Luneville, de-
livered a public address STEPPED in
bitterness, and intolerance Tearing
open old wounds, summoning the
spirits of fear and suspicion and hate,
call for policy of force and fallow
the earth with the seeds of war.
1.-THE league copvenes in an atmoS-
phere of dissension and strife.
II see neither the advancement Of
reconstruction nor aid for peace nor
service to humanity in the cancella-
ton of debts under such circum-
stances, or in loanirg millions of
American money to Europe. see the
very opposite of these things.
'T am more interested in working
out policy of conservation, which
will dedicate our great natural wealth
to the happiness of our own people
and thus strengthening the founda-
ton of our own institutions than
] am in trying to build up European
markets under the policies now OBJ
tanning.
There is enough, more than enough,
to do at home. There is honest
work for every dollar in the United
States There are markets to be
built up here of far more value to
the American farmer than the fugi-
tive markets which we are hunting
for abroad.
"There is room for constructive
program here which will serve the
cause of peace and serve humanity. /
There is home job to do, and pru-
dence and patriotism alike urge us
to the task
Senator Borah asserted that the
greatest domestic problem since the !
Civil war was that should the gov
ernment do and how it should ex-
ercise its purpose in putting an end
to the waste of natural resources
oil, timber and water power.
public interest demands that this
waste should cease" he said. Justice
to- the people demands that unjust
prices and exploitation shall be pre-
vented. Common sense and the most
ordinary tenets of humanity insist
that our rivers shall no longer be a
menace to millions of our countrymen.
Making our rivers both safe and
serviceable is not local but general,
not sectional but national, not politics,
but business. These are some signs
that the old time piece meal procras-
tinating political method is again con-
templated. Nothing could be mroe
unfortunate nor in the. end more
expensive. Expense, and great ex-
pense, may be the part of true econ
omy. In the face of great tasks,
parsimony becomes extravaganza,
timidity q crime"
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