The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-01

resort than for immediate adoption
 Its first object was to be the awakening of the country to the fact that it, toe. stood in the shadow of the cloud; that 1t must act promply and do its tull share toward lifting the common burden, or else the south would be com pelled to resort to "extrcme meas ures" Then, should the country fail to grasp the true situation and to re- spond, state legislation and "extreme measures' would be called into play.
 How the country awakened and re- sponded to the call issued by MT Hard ing, though voiced through the treas ury, now is known of all men. And among the many who have paid tribute
 to MT. Harding's initiative and re- sourcefulness is Theodore H. Price, the cotton expert. who recently described him as a constructive financier' sec ond to none in the country.
 Work of Delegation
 In the Senate. the two members from Alabama worked for the south almost to the limit Of human endurance, al- belt they took different roads to ar
 
 may be described as a radical, going even to the extent of endeavoring to
 kill the war tax bill unles 1t carried
 with it relief for the South. Some what more conservative Senator Bank head sponsored the plan for state relief, but worked indefatigably on the line he selected and made a trip to the
 southland to talk it over with the people.
 Of the Alabama men in the House, the burden of the fight probably fell
 most heavily on Representative Burnett
 of the Seventh district, whose friends
 importuned him to go home to partici-
 pate in the campaign. Instead, he stuck conscientiously to his post. Here
 will I stay until a majority votes me
 down." he expressed it; T will trust God and my people to take care of me,
 as they so often have done"
 Indeed, MT. Burnett may be taken as sample of the Alabama men In the House-determined, but not pugna- cious; aggressive, but not pyrotechnic; ; resourceful, but fair and above board. Even more than this his speech a week before adjournment may be taken as a sample of the sentiments of the Ala bama delegation, and it undoubtedly won friends for the cause of cotton. Cites the Figures
 At first citing the fact that few days before the outbreak of the Flu ropean war cotton was selling at IS cents, and few days thereafter it dropped below the cost of production, MT. Burnett continued:
 "The European countries involved in the war buy about twc-thirds of our cotton, while our mills in the United States manufacture about one-third of it. An extraordinarily large crop has been grown, and the war has shut us out from all the European countries except England. England is so de-
 moralized by the war that as yet it has not begun to buy anything like it's usual quota of our crop.
 Republican spellbinders in the south are trying to make the people believe that a democratic administration has brought this disaster on our main crop
 That declaration is an insult to the in- telligence of our people. Any sane man
 knows that it would be impossible, after the democratic party had been in power nearly two years, with cotton high all that time, for the adminis- tration to reduce 1t half in one short week. In the able speech just deliv- cred. Mir. Mann, the great leader of
 the republican party in the House, who will probably be the next republican nominee for President, placed the re- sponsibility for conditions on the Eu- ropean war, where all reasonable men know 1t belongs.
 Immediately after MT. Wilson's elec- tion two years ago the price of cotton began to rise. and two crops have been sold at the largest price that we have realized for years Some republican and progressive speakers try to charge the low price of. cotton to the Under- wood tariff bill. Everybody knows that this is absurd The democratic party came in pledged to a reduction of the - q