Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-27

Nation" into one corner Of this vast
hall, and the Nation that we know in
cludes cities and towns and the country
side, and 100000 people in the
homes of men. Their prosperity Is a
spotted thing---an evidence of disease;
and we want to spread 1t like healthy
glow over every element and section
of our population.
Payment Of War Debts.
Do they offer us their claim of the
PAYMENT of eight billions of the public
debt up to July of last year? Our an
swer Is that six and third billion of
this amount was paid with the money
or the cash assets of the Wilson adj
minlStration.
Do they offer us their record Of econ
omy? Our answer Is that With the
elimination of the interest on war debts
| the last three years Of this regime has
cost the people more than four and
quarter billion more than the last
three peace years OF the wilson ao-
ministration.
MYTHICAL prosperity mythical econo-
nv. mythical facts. mythical figures
and mythical men. the last eight years
NAV we'll be treated by the historian
of the far future as the mythical age
of American history.
And mythical, too, their virile for
| eien policy that was promised We near
| about It but we see 1t not. 1t Is an
anaemic outcast stumbling blindly in
the darkness Of No Mans Land. They
dare not face the world made over by
the war and meet new duties calleo
for BY new occasions. They found us
enioyinr the moral leadership OF all
mankind. and they have made us the
most distrusted and unpopular Nation
on the globe.
Dollar Diplomay Chided.
Thus through the stupidity Of their
dollar diplomacy we have stumbled
into a petty war with Nicaragua that
lie taking its daily toll OF American
lives Just why we have the war no
one seems to know; just how we came
to have the war no one cares 10 tel.
Do they tell us that we are there 10
guarantee an honest election? why, not
long ago we we're unable 10 guarantee
an honest election In the City OF Pnlia-
delnhia. Do they say that we are there
to prevent rioting in the election? why,
at the time we we're sending the Ma
rines to Nicaragua We were campaign
inc with bombs in the City OF Chicago.
Now we propose to end dollar dlplo-
macy in Latin America in the interest
of Justice: but we propose 1t, too IN the
| interest of American business. We do not
nronose to sacrifice the future markets
of our manufacturers and merchants
| to serve the interest OF little groups
of financiers and conceSSionaires. lnere
within a generation. loom our ricnest
markets: and we are sowing the SEED
from which our rivals across the sea
will reap the harvest in trade. We can
not submit bill of lading at the point
Of a bayonet and make the Latin
| Americans take 1t. We cannot write a
| hin of sale with a mailed fist. We can
not match a Marine with a muSket
against a British or German salesman
with a smile We can serve the ultl-
| mate ends of business better through
| the noble spirit of the Mobile speech
| of Woodrow Wilson than they have
| done with their dollar diplomacy Dack-
| ed by the muskets Of the Marines. who
are dying needlessly today In the
swamps of Nicaragua.
Faith Of Fathers Lauded.
Never In a century has there been
such a call to us to battle for the
| faith of our fathers as there Is today;
| and never has the control OF govern
ment been so completely concentrated
| In the hands of ruling caste as now.
The dreams of the Hamiltonians have
| literally come true while the people
slept. They wanted organized wealth
| In possession of the government-and
we have It, They wanted the sovereign
| rights of States denied-and we have
| 1t. They wanted bureaucratic agents
| swarming over the land like the locusts
of Egypt-and we have 1t. They
wanted government made profitable to
| the powerfui-and we have 1t. They
wanted, through administration. TO