Oo start anew, they staggering unpaid 000,000,000, must shoulder ihe, war debt, of $8.0, 5 ki bey Mach nation} howssait”™ wil 1a, itself... Istheansid@erpit as a! Considering the fact that America: Common ald and! othe. ehoice we | sufferedsso, little, many now advocate make “fox ourselves: wn iusp spewmade that’ wescancel our share of the de-| | With a“i9oderation; @fy council, wand a | tempe rament,of judemett,befittine our | \} Pressing | debt of Hurope. of) AMERICA, HOL DS KEY | \Aharacter and’ our motiw M1 AUS a fetion.’ Tincrith stands at this moment e 2 a iba te our lot with the allies, wei théerefore;on the brink ut one of those | FECOB the “Justice “opethe’ Cause great. decisions which leave their : that all fPee™=peoplé were ‘| SERVICE OF CITY AND ' press tory. of course *%vhole the upon ‘At the present time she ! ae Bi “mortal jeoperdy- L IGHTEST lations nm hu eace, | man and re-establish the world’s lives much more than it c@St the} She is the creditor nation of the i United States. We lost but 49, 00.6 | + yj She :commands the purse strings of} while France lost 1,885,000 andoakinecivilization. The Old wurld now owes land lost 900,000. .Had we entered , | her the vast sum of $15,000,000,000: the war in 1914, many thotisandsimore And -yet all Europe is in. economic Of our soldiers would: have paid the | the key which Gan unlock, .MERICA’S pros speri ity | ‘ bondage, Shall America play the Shylock of old, and exact the flesh®of the Huropean laborer in order to secure the sheckels for the debt? Shall War Supreme O ther sacrifice have been pours ‘d out was. LOSS CUST and thelosses would | more Sane : her forced s but ; oO Orrown { Hurope | wealth, and| “figeht. Ahe | to we become the King Midas of history? battle s of a2 common cause, while we | waited nearh nree We canh- cance) this enormous debt and years to see fhe! either do the: world an imperishable | light. Mery roadminde dad. Amériean | that even service, or fall it in its hour of great- | can now gee in the fdoss of | hour “of | Ours ldier -dead we paid est need, and in our own 1 little. “eorn - | Fated. with ithe ee of our alles greatest opportunity. United | 7 This alone€ justifies cancellatién. t The cancellation by. the Since the war was a common¢Ganse, | States of this debt will save the en-} tire world from national bankruptcy !wercan do no more than to” pay. our | Britain | |honmest share of its cost Betore we | 3as| entered we lent our m@ney Europe on-hal fj sacrificed human livesy In the scales | centuries, and besides owes a foreign | of human justice, all ¢hé wealth of the cannot balance‘those lives. The and domestic debt of $40,000, 000,009. | world was fought upon their. soil, owes ”$50,000,000.000. “Pate} battle France were destroyed, while we has emptied their treasuries.‘ Onra |} their homes and the destruc. | pereentage basis England’s @ebt is%65 } © aped the ravages, pericent of her ne tional Tesanree and } ©i yn jot ‘they war. Is it fair for uss to| LT iask “them to DAY. 92 Ki> L I Lat wéaith,;: France’s* 83 pe cent, Etat’ money, yrincipal and interest *, Which was’ used Be lgium?’ S 29) Were rf 86 per cent, and ave ovrselves 2 Fellow cent. « These appalling figures? mes n Americans, can now do no more than'te:can-| thateach person in Franee miusP pay | ws $1130’ to-clear’ his government oreihe | ce: the ldans and help to pay the cest ThereMis a feeling of distr ak tow -} war debts. “The oppressive Supden for (¥e.t’nited States in allsMurope the average family of TIVE 4s" 95,650. | a rd consider .that. 57% pewveent | 2 nd. it js*growing stronger day wn day; Wihémave we demand payments of a of ‘the flower. of her manhood was | because <=to carry. ON: a COmMmMon: cause. killed in the war, and that the famities |: loan American commissioner to Wu-} consist mainly of only women, Children | recently ict “When we have} and old men, we realize in part the] through our policy of burden under which the French péas- } ‘Amfor Liveeiiane and why: should} ants tremble, Authorities state that? trouble ourselves over Bur opean] With the millions: of dollars interest hardships and debt we shall find:one!} piling up each day itis impossible‘for bond “uniting all Hurope——hatred of! iu the nations to ever pay their’ @ébts. America’.’’ liven honest attempts will réesulf@in i BEGIN TO FEAR US failure and national bankriniyy, and | Instead of looking to us as the | beacon light of civilization. pointing } fout the path of priceless progress, .Ku-| ropean nations are beginning to fear Great and industrial . ruin. spent as much during the during the previous two and war § that we, national Placed too, jn nothing they piey the game intrigue s sh the to pit-o face shudder ‘of Bey erty but under inter- deception. with slavery, a bugle that all nations are base covetous | Nothing short of a great act—an act new to the time worn annals of his-{ BPO Spe will SB | Be pee . tory, blot. from their 5 \ } pian the dark cloud of delusion. The upreme; Climax of American integr ity by which we could honestly claim they universal confidence of peoples, would be the unheraldede«cancellation | of the destructive debts. All through her sublime historv } America has blaze@@f6rth the chami pion of national honor’ and universal | i justice... Her field vor “action Hal been bes entire.world. She befriended! the 4. Cubans “and cared for, I Wher Congressmen jittle had paid: too Ji the FYlipinos: suggested for the our share once = more world and liza sail the of the war forth the’ moulder of Copyrighted that We territory theougie winch. to cut the Panama Canela we voluntarily gave Columbia another’ $15,000,000. The e€alizofitoday demands that Ameri¢a once more speak forth in‘terms of Honor, forget-national wealth. Can-}; cel | MAKERS OF AMERICAN| loans 1 me and salt Ena | HIS National Child Welfare Association, is one of a series of twenty or woman who has made colored a significant 70 Fifth Avenue charts. each contribution to New of which America York City presents a mar n tdeals.