Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-16
NUBBINS
By
BURRIS JENKINS

We are going to have our OBJ
stacles to any sort of peace settle
ment. We are going to find before
we get through that our own peo-
Die are not all of them 10 be trusted
i'm working at this thing in large
and unselfish manner. n great
many American forces will seek to
block the structure of such friend
Iy and eomradelike organization
amongst the nations as we are seek
ing. There are great forces, pow
erful and dark and subterranean in
their working. They will not come
into the open and be seen publicly
working for the ends they have in
view; but they will have the finan-
cial force and power back of them,
lust the same, to affect the situa-
ton. They will be working, for in
stance. for certain tariffs.
That's politics, you say. No, II Is
not politics: il is science absolutely.
Economic science is the only force
that ought to govern the tariff
structure of the world. What self
ishness will be felt! From Cotton
Ed Smith down in the south TO the
steel manufacturers of Pittsburgh,
il will be felt. That's one element.
Another element is the whole bank
ing structure of mankind. The
United States is the real banker of
the world. We are the financial
head OF the entire globe. We be-
came so twenty-five years ago and
didn't know it and we haven't
found it out yet, but ii is true. We
have got to face ii and face 1t like
men. not like selfish, greedy hogs.
We have got to face the fact that
the United States is the banker ma
ton of the earth, and conduct our
selves accordingly. We have learned
i'm this country that the wise banker
is the man who keeps business going
all round him. He is not the man
who tries to crush out other busl-
ness to his own supposed advan-
tage. 1t doesn't work that way. We
have learned that il is better and
wiser to promote the welfare OF
everybody with whom we are doing
business. We don't want any bank
ruptcy when we are the banker ma
ton of mankind. We don't want
any nation trying to pay us impos-
sible debt, not when we are the
banker nation of mankind. We
want to collect only what is our
lust and fair and right due, and no
more. and give and take and yield
where it is to the advantage OF all.
Arc we ready TO do that yet? 1t Is
doubtful if we have learned the re-
spcnsibilities of the banker nation
of the world, and yet we are. We
are the leader nation of mankind.
We've got that responsibility upon
our shoulders. The welfare of little
Uruguay is our welfare. The well
fare of poor distruSted Spain is our
welfare. The welfare of the Soviet
Union, powerful as it isz-it is the
only possible rival to ourselves
either in trade or in military life in
this whole world. The welfare of
the Soviet Union is our welfare, and
unless we understand those things.
my dear friend, we can't build any
thing out Of Dumbarton, anything
that is stable and firm and lasting.
Yes, you will find us grabbing
airports instead of trying to give
advantage to backward countries.
You will find us grabbing oil fields
instead of giving chance TO ma
and peasantry and slavery, chance
for freedom and right and health
and economic advantage. II isn't
an easy thing we've got to learn.
It's a tremendous lesson, and we
may hope that if we make upon
stupendousness Of this thing today
that it will not discourage any
body; that on the contrary it will
enIiven everybody and inspire
everybody TO get at his little part
of the task.
If we are Christian at all VIC have
got to spend and be spent, give all
the strength we have, give our lives
and ourselves for the upbuilding of
the cause of understanding and
peace among the nations of the
earth. We've got to begin at home.
think II was severe loss when
Wendell WiIIkie died. He was a
great asset to this country, a great
lover of all mankind, and l don't
know but he was one Of the casual
ties i'm this conflict. l saw in some
publication the other day that he
died of a broken heart. l wouldn't
doubt ii very much. He made the
biggest gamble that politician
could make ever i'm American his
tory. He put everything he had OH
this issue of the Dumbart0n con-
ference, his hopes for the Presid-
ency, his aspirations for a life time
i'm the hands of his party and of his
nation. He put them all on the
gaming table and lost. Enough to
break a mans heart, strong mans
heart, and maybe that's what hap
pened to Wendell WiIlkie. Maybe