The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-25
STRONG HAND IF AMERICA NEEDED,
 UNDERWOOD AVER6
No Doubt But That U. s. Can Bring Order In Europe,
 Says Senator

MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 24,-It is not the slow hand of court that is now needed in Europe, but the strong hand of a strong government stand ing for peace, declared oscar w. Un- derwood United States Senator for Alabama, in addresses the final ses sion of the convention of the Cotton states Merchants association here to- day. He urged that this country the strongest and greatest government in the world, take a hand in bringing order out of European chaos, assert ing:
 T haven't a doubt it could be done"
 Senator Underwood, speaking on the subject, The south and the World Markets" declared that the condition of affairs in Europe was of tremendous concern to American farmers and business men from an economic standpoint.
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 Of Vital Importance.
 European conditions are as import ant business to you as the credits on your ledger" the speaker, who has d overseas countries engaged in the late war, told the merchants, what happens happens outside the limits of this country is of as much interest to you as 1t would be to theman who pays cash"
 Establishment and development of trade with Europe which he charact- erized as America's great market place was urged by the Senator as the business mans basic require ments for prosperity. Europe, he declared has no money and no American securities with which to buy American goods, but channels of trade alone would permit the war burdened countries to regain their financial balance with the United States. which, he said since .he war become a great creditor nation.
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 Up To President.
 Just one man in this country, the speaker said, is able ito do anything about" the European situation and he is the president himself through diplomatic channels. However, said the Senator who insisted he did not come to make a political speech, but neither to dodge issues, since the close of the late war "our govern ment has had no foreign policy and no position on the European situa- ton.
 Let a man shirk a responsibility to his family, to his neighbor, or to his country" continued Mir. Under wood, "aud in the end he will pay for It. A nation is only men in the mill lions. Ii our country skirks CT re- sNousibAity among tGe nations she will pay for it dearly.'
 RcferrinG to European govern mental affairs, the speaker declared that there was not a ministry in tle great countries which engaged in tho war that knows it will exist two weeks in the future, Not only change of government but evolution itself is threatened, he said.
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 FOrsees Dire Consequences.
 If the present German government should fall it may be the last we 5haii see under the republic,' he pre- iicted "And if it falls chaos is the Inevitable result"
 Stability If business, Senator Un- aerWaod said, was impossible with out st& .Lty of gOvernment
 Th tariff wall enacted by the re- cen. Cen sress, the speaker believed, was oostruct.ug the flow Of Euro pesIl trade to America. He declared that the Underwood tariff of 1913 had operated through period of great prosperity in the United States. American industries, he said. were no longer infant but were well grr A,ard further protection was un-
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