The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-08
'oday We Voted. How? Finance Has the Shivers. One Loan England
 Missed.
 Sentiment Is Strong.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE


 Yesterday we voted and how did VIC vote? Have half of our 1o0,- ooOo people any definite ideas on why they vote or what they vote for. beyond the fact that they were born republicans or democrats?
 Do 10 per cent of the people know the names or anything about more than 10 per cent of candidates on the tickets?
 They do not.
 Dinosaurs died off because they grew too big. Their heads hadn | brains enough to manage so big a body. And the rats ate their feet.
 Can a nation. stretching from ocean to ocean, and from Arctic to tropical weather, grow so big that protect it from political rats that eat its feet?
 Finance is courageous about money, but doesn't like war. It used to, but no more.
 Renal. the Turk, has told the a1- lies that he, alone. is boss of Con- stantinople and the Dardanelles. War ships can't go through. not even Englands warships. And every ship that goes must salute the Turkish government, of which the other name Is Renal.
 It isn't hard to see more war in that. You may say that the allies, with their ships. flying machines. INT, and trained soldiers, could soon remind Renal of his real size. And they could probably. But the allies have had all the fighting they want.
 This country knows what war costs. And the mere suggestion of trouble in the east, the "sassing" of England, France and the other west erpers, by kemal, you may see re- f;ected in our brave. but not too brave, stock market.
 Monday the price of money went up, the value of stocks went down. European money shivered violently. Francs. which nobody seems to want. fell down again and German marks found a new sub-cellar below the bottom cellar.
 Europe and America are tired of war but unfortunately Asia is not. One of these days, perhaps, the Eu- ropeans will try to stop fighting, cheating, rohbing. combining against each other, and pay attention to Asia. To soften your worry about the franc. the mark, the Turk and the allies, Mir Crissinger tells you of the beginning Of new era of pros perity The banks have added in one year s1,00o, ,000,000 to their assets. Find what comfort you can in that.
 If you want to invest money in foreign bonds turn from Europe to- ward South America and buy the bonds of cAiie. That's rich nation, friend, a neighbor. and in all prob ability you will get your money back. with interest.
 The investment interests you also because that bond issue was snatched by Charles l.. Mitchell, the able president of the National City bank of New York, from the jaws of the British lion. It's a good loans prof table Our English friends had done everything but count the profits. when along came Mitchell and took 1t away. American finance, boss of the worlds cash. is reaching out.
 Sentiment is powerful. The former Kaiser led his people from the heights of egotism and divine right to the morass of defeat, bankruptcy and despair. The people could stand that.
 But he marries, few months after the death of the empress that lived for him and for his dynasty, patiently manufacturing his long line of rather ordinary sons. The marriage, so soon after the death of the mother of his children, will hurt his dynasty more than defeat could do.
 Shame on a beaten king" said Henry II, of himself as he died. Shame on a beaten and remarked kaiser" says Germany.
 Today, blissfully unconscious of the facts, the former emperor Is Ion his honeymoon" in the garden which is his prison, like a honeymooning squirrel in a cage wheel.
 In England tories, unionists, rad icals, laborltes, coalitionists. all have been talking a steady stream. Just one man, Lloyd George. has said something. He calls the tories scheme Not a program but a yawn." There was never better description of tory planning. This is no time for yawning.
 And if the British exchange Lloyd George, the doer, for yawn of tories, they will deserve part of what will happen to them.
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