Cities of Refuge. in commenting on the treaty imposed upon Germany by France and Great Britain says that there are those in England who think that God speaks English with an Oxford accent and made a big error in permitting the German nation to exist. But there are good reasons why the United States should desire friendly trade. relations with Germany. She furnished to us more immigrants than any other nation in the world. a total of over 6.000.000. and they were intelligent. honest. industrious. and libertyloving people who soon became a part and parcel of our Nation. - Other nations formerly importing our. farm products took action similar to that of Germany. with the ultimate result in 1932 that agriculture had lostabout five billion dollars of purchasing power because of the glutting of domestic markets with unsalable surpluses. With that loss of purchasing power more workers in industry lost their jobs and our Government was forced into a relief program of an unprecedented scale. While Edmund Burke said that nations do not learn by experience. and while the present tendency is to regard the views of our early statesmen as of no value to us in the solution of our problems.
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Germans are intelligent, honest, industrious, and liberty-loving.