The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-08
DEMOCRATS WILL
 VOTE FOR COUNTRIES BEST INTEREST
Senator Harris Talks on Recent EIection-Should Turn Their Thoughts to Trade With
 China and Japan

With their President in office and
 majority in both the House and the
 Senate, the republican party has now
 the chance to make good in all the
 things they have been bragging about
 for the past eight years.
 If they do accomplish anything, the democratic party will not try to hinder them. but will vote for those things, as
 they have always done, that are for the best interests of the country" That is the statement of Senator Will liam J. Harris of Georgia, who spent yesterday in. Birmingham with his brother. pr. Scale Harris. Senator Har- Iris has only recently arrived in the United States, having spent the sum
 mer and fall months travelling over China and Japan and coming back by tway of Cuba.
 While travaing through Japan and China got out of touch with things back home, but I firmly believe that had the democratic party nominated Senator Oscar ". Underwood for the presidency of the United states he would have been elected.
 T am not saying anything against Governor Cox, his ability as nexecu- tive, or anything else. Governor Cox lost because the democratic party as a whole did not support him.
 FOREIGN TRADE ~But now that we have lost, we should turn our thoughts to other things. Foreign trade is about the most important measure that Is
 confronting the country today. | r>Aa = part of tke merchandise they buy from forefrn eountries from the United States. ;. China is also looking to the United States for her salvation as well as a
 supply market. The people of China
 believe that their country would be wiped off the face of the earth If it was not for the United States. When visited China I was entertained by the President of China. For the first time, believe, in its history, the wives and daughters of the President and his cabinet were allowed to come into the court when a stranger from a foreign country was being received.
 This occurred when I was enter
 taincd by the President and his cabi- net. I do not know what caused them to make the unusual change unless it is because modernism Is at last finding It's way into China, and that the Presi- dent of China thought that the only way to entertain 8 representative of another republic was in truly repub- Hcan style.
 FACTORIES IN CHINA Several cotton factories are now ve- ing erected in China, I believe there are about dozen in the entire repub- | lie. I mean by that, modern machine driven cotton factories. Of the other kind of cotton machine, crude hand
 made instrument that looks much like | a pitch fork, I suppose there must be ! thousands of them throughout tho country.
 in Japan silk is. now worth just months ago. This, of course. has caused the bottom to drop ont of busi- ness, so to speak, in that country. But think things will readjust themselves rapidly, for the Japanese have one habit, a desirable habit, which we seem 1 to be forgetting to cultivate, and that l is thrift. They practice thrift in Ja- pan to the nth degree, and that is the
 reason why they have advanced so fast during the past fifty years.
 This may not be of interest to some people, and have only mentioned it to show what the conditions are in some
 of the countries I have visited recent ! ly, and why I believe that the United States now has the opportunity to be- come the leading nation of the world in
 the matter of world trade. The trade l of China and Japan and our Latir
 American trade would give us lead that noe one can dispute.
 50 it's up to the republican party
 that will be in office soon. They should !. take advantage of these opportunities ! 11 axpA A<%nt v,,s I, <. 1Axr~ A~
 fore they ever get in office again"