The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
HUGHES PAYMENT
 PLAN IS INDORSED BY LLOYD GEORGE
Ex-Premier Says Examina- ton Of Germany's Ca
 paCity Common Sense

CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-(By Associated Press .}--The Hughes proposal for an international commission to ascer-. tain Germany's capacity to pay was endorsed by David Lloyd George, war time premier of Great Britain, in an address tonight at the international amphitheatre in the heart of the stock yards district TO the largest audience he has yet addressed since arriving in New York, he declared that such an examination of Germanys capacity was one of common sense with the alternative nothing but the blindness of force and violence.
 Discussing the situation in Europe with it's exhaustion after the war and the separations questions as the most acute phase of the situation, MT. Lloyd George declared that it was a fatal mistake to drive the German population into despair.
 We want reparations," he added, and revolution is not the way to get them"
 Little Evidence Of Illness.
 Speaking after a day spent in se- clusion recovering from the effects of cold and fatigue, MT. Lloyd George showed little evidence of ill., ness. The address was delivered with force and deliberateness to an audi ence which filled the vast amphithe- atre with it's seating capacity of 10,- 900. Amplifiers carried his voice to the farthest corners and caught up and hurled out the answering ap- plause. Wireless telephone carried the address farther, to unnumbered thousands.
 Although in the heart of the stock yards district the audience was mo- table for the number present of men and women prominent in business financial and social life. The presid- ing officer was Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes, former director of the federal budget at Washington,
 Great Britain desired reparations, they explained, but was following her traditional policy of moderateness in victory as the surest way of attain ing that end.
 "Can't Use BayOnets.'
 "You cannot examine ledgers with bayonets." he remarked.
 Can Germany pay now? If she can she ought to. It is to her inter- est to get done with 1t. And if she can pay, but is merely refusing to pay let us find it out and the allies will march together in any enter prise that is necessary to force her to pay.
 "Alr Secretary Hughes delivered a
 
 ming of this year at New Haven, I think, in which he proposed that the whole question of Germany's capac- ity to pay should be examined by commission of business experts and he made it clear if a commission of that kind were appointed every fa- cility would be given for an Amer ican expert tC be on that body. thoroughly practical, business-li proposal.
 "The examination of Germany's capacity and the treaty of Versailles was left to body called the repara- tion commission. On that body the United States of America wants to be represented. But something hap pened to that treaty down in Wash ington. The United States of Amer ica therefore has no representative. But when it is suggested there should be a committee of experts with an American among them, that is substantially the same thing, and cannot understand why either France or Belgium should refuse to accept that very moderate and sen sible proposal.
 only Way For Settlement.
 'The United States of America is absolutely impartial. She has no in- crest in separations. She has cer- tainly no more interest in Germany than anybody else. She is very well disposed toward France and there fore with friendly country, abso- lutely impartial, with a great fund of business Knowledge at it's dis posal, represented in a body of that kind, it seems to me we could find a way to ascertain how much Germany can pay and once we have done that. then we could march together to compel her to pay
 That seems tC me to be the only way to settle this troublesome ques- tion without creating further dis turbance, without upsetting the world, without keeping everyone in state of nervousness; without de- the confidence which is the life of commerce."