The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-06-30

of expanding production, and to a lower standard of living. 1-
 Such results would surely follow if the policies urged in the platform were to be fol- lowed They are, in effect policies of non- intercourse, whether commercial, financial or political. The already high tariff IS to be made higher. The American market is to be reserved exclusively for Americans. Every pound of beef or butter or cheese that comes from abroad into this country is to be thought of as wicked invader of our sacred preserve, and is hereafter to be excluded by every de- vice of law and discrimination. The act under which Secretary Hull has negotiated reclpro- cal trade treaties is to be repealed forthwith, although for many years reciprocity in trade has been a good Republican doctrine en- shrined and auded in many platforms of the party. In theory, if not in practice, this would put the nation in the attitude of saying cody to every other: Do not try to send any of your goods to this country, for we shall buy nothing of you that we can possibly pro- duce ourselves"
 To pile one absurdity upon another, the Republican platform pledges itself to collect the debts owed our Treasury by foreign na- tions It planes the Democratic Administra- ton for having made no serious effort to do this But what could Republican Adminis- tration do? It would have set up system by which our debtors were forbidden to pay us anything, account, in the only way possible. There has recently been some faint evidence in France and England of the desire to open negotiations with the United States regarding the debt settlement This generally traced to the better feeling and to the prospect of more normal commercial rela- tions, created by the intelligent and persistent efforts of Secretary Hull to start international trade flowing again, if only at first on small scale. But now the Republicans would wipe all this out at the same time that they would brand our debtors as shameless delinquents unless they did the impossible thing of paying up at once. This is high protection and in- Hated nationasm with a touch of mid summer madness upon them.
 The Republican platform does not appre- ciate the distinction between being self governed and self-contained. Of course, we make our own laws and allow no other nation to dictate a policy to us. But this does not mean that we can stand alone on the earth as if no others existed and as if we could maintain ourselves in comfort and happiness though completely isolated We cannot for get what the industrial revolution has meant for the world. We cannot overlook the im- mense expansion of our capacities for pro- duction and for manufacturing, far beyond the consuming power of our own people. Un- less we can enter into trading agreements with foreign nations and find an outlet for our varied surpluses in markets abroad we shall inevitably find ourselves shut into cramped country, fit perhaps for the residence of Little Americans, but wholly unlike the United States with a great and growing world trade which were rapidly becoming few years ago.
 It is in keeping with this proposed policy of commercial and industrial aloofness that the Republican platform turns its back on inter- national cooperation. Not content with ban ming the League of Nations, it declared against our adherence to the World Court, a- though this has been recommended by three Republican Presidents and once voted, with reservations, by a Republican Senate. The whole plan and picture of the platform builders is, in the matters referred to, not merely provincial but parochiaL It is out of touch with realities. It ignores the past and shuts it's eyes to the future In a word, it is an example of the way in which great em- pres may be weakened and brought low by. little minds
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