Nogales international., 1933-01-21
ECONOMIC WAR MUST STOP,
SAYS NICHOLAS M. BUTLER
AT ST. LOUIS CONVENTION
Columbia University Executive Appeals To United States
To Join In Movement To Bring End
To Economic War y
BY ROBERT FULLER


sity. as President of the Carnegie
Endowment for international Peace,
was featured in a radio address by
tht League of Nations Association
at the opening of it's tenth annual
convention in ST. Louis. DR.. But
ler's appeal was for the United
States to join in the movement to
end the present economic war which
is laying waste to the worlds trade
DR.. Butler said:
There is no time to. waste upon
generalities or formalities. The mod
ern world is in the gravest crisis
of it's history The duty and the
opportunity of the people of the
United States and Of their govern
nent are imperative and unexam-
pied. It is for them to decide, and
quickly whether they will dawdle
and falter and do nothing, and thus
permit the present economic and
financial depression to continue to
it's certain and disastrous end, or
whether they will now take. those
steps, and insist upon their being
taken, which alone can point the
way to happier and better day.
"We must not shut our eyes to
obvious facts. The great forward
movement is for international un-
derstanding and international CO.
operation to promote the peace and
the happiness of the world. Bitter
and relentless international war is
going on in the field of economics
and finance, with the result that
the trade of the world is strangulat-
ed and is sick unto death.
Four Weapons
"TIis economic war is being car
ried on with four weapons which
are quite as destructive of peace and
human happiness as are battleshipS
and guns, alrships and poison gas.
These are high tariff walls, trade
prohibitions and quotas, depreciat-
ed currencies and disrupted inter
national exchanges. These are the
weapons which must now be re-
nounced and displaced if this de-
structive and devastating war is TO
be brought to an end.
What are the specific things
which the American people now can
and should do and insist upon be-
ing done by their unhurrying gov
ernment?
First, they should make it plain
that they demand from the coming
disarmament conference such con-
clusions and agreements as shall &C
tually disarm the nations for mill
tary and naval war and not merely
equalize their establishments and
equipments for the killing of men
and the devastating of cities and
towns under the guise of gaining
security.
Second, we must not psrm-t out
worn political formulas and tradi-
tions and passwords to stand in the
way of the work of the coming
economic conference. This confer
ence offers distinct and quick posi-
bihty of restoring the worlds trade
and industry, OF again providing I
markets for our farmers and our
industrialists, occupation for our
and traffic for our
railways, by bringing about the re-
duction or removal of the many
barriers to international trade
which now everywhere exist.
THAT is a pretty poor system of
protection to American labor and
American industry which sends from
5en to twelve millions of unemploy-
I'd to walk the streets, which shuts
1own factories and leaves our wheat
and our cotton to rot in the fields. |
That Senate Group
Then we should insist that the
Senate Of the United States leave off
is long continued Misrepresentation
If American public opinion and
quickly consent to the ratification
m behalf of the United States to
he Permanent Court Of Interua-
ional Justice, which our govern
nent signed on December 9, 1929.
Such action would be in strict ac-
.ordance with American traditional
>olicy and in conformity with long
standing American leadership. 1t
las been in substance recommended
" every President since Mckinley
md by every Secretary of State
ince josh Hay. Public opirion
the land is, and long
las been, overwhelmingly in sup
,ort of this action, but a small
,roup of opposing senators taking !