The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-29
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Stanley Baldwin, British conserva-
tive leader, says the difference be-
tween him and the present British |
government is that he believes what |
the communists say about their five
year plan. When the reds say their |
five-year plan is economic warfare
against the rest of the world he be-
lieves them. And he thinks this eco
nomic war will be worse than mill
tary war.
Whatever anyone may think of the
British conservative leaders policies
on other matters, it will be mighty
hard to disagree with him on this
point.
Baldwin points out half dozen
lines in which soviet invasion of Eng
land already has taken place. For
relief he offers tariff and a quota sys-
tenn.
Meanwhile American "progres-
sives" rave and tear their hair de-
manding recognition of the soviets.
Likewise they pound away at our
tariff laws, one of the most string
ent provisions of which is a section
barring, after next January, all prod
ucts of enforced labor.
Our 'progressives" are playing
politics; the soviets are not. The
soviets are carrying out their threat
to make war on all non-soviet ma
tions, fighting for communist world
They have found that commodities are
as effective as guns and perhaps more
so.
American electrical machinery has
gone into Russia to make many
things, among them light bulbs which
the soviets now sell in London for
less than they can be MADE in the
United States. That's only an exam
pie.
Of enormous consequence, however,
is the fact that the revolutionary So
Wet regime has put Uncle Sam ever
lastingly out of the world wheat mar
ket. That is something that cannot
be laughed off.
Whether employment in the United
States goes up one per cent is of
great Importance to us just now, but
these one per cent figures will dwin-
die into insignifcance when the full
force of soviet industrial production
hits the world market, along with
soviet agricultural output of wheat
and cotton.
1t has long been maintained in these
columns that the soviets are as truly
at war with the United States and
with all democratic nations as though
the armies were marching and the
guns frign.
Warfare does not have to be con-
Quoted with armies and guns.
Warfare can be conducted with
commodities and with currency. And
we do not yet know to the full what
schemes the reds have worked and
will yet work to destroy currency
values in other nations.
AS for those political forces in this
country that continuously bolster the
soviet game, the time may not be far
hence when questions that are sharp
and to the point will be asked of
them!
More and more the evidence piles
up that the United States must build
up it's own mass consuming power.
Social justice is the basic motive
force toward this, but actual, down.
right defense may yet be discovered
as vital factor There is more than
altruism in high wages.
The workman, for example, work
ing on wood doors for export, is go
ing to ask pointed questions when he
finds that doors made by soviet forced
labor can be sold in the export mar
ket cheaper than the American can
make them. That, too, is happening.
Those who continue to talk piffie
about soviet aims and relations have
old Nero backed into corner for