The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04

committee the next few days, for what is sought in the senate bill is but to give the people the same right, the same measure of justice, the same equality of treatment as concern of the legislators for the public in- terest will be ascertained when the. people of the state see what action is taken by them upon this question of simple equity and justice in the public behalf.
 FOREIGN PRESS ON OCCUPATION
 From the foreign comment on the occu- patton of the Ruhr, as presented in the Literary Digest, almost all shades of feeling are reflected concerning the French. Some English journals are bitterly severe in their judgments, others warmly com mandatory; the German press is, of course, of one voice. But nowhere, in English, French or German papers, do we find a word favorable to the position taken by America in the matter.
 After saying that it is regretted by the vast majority of Engishmen that their country is not associated with France in the measures she is undertaking, The Morn- ing Post observes: "The United States Government can afford to take down the Stars and Stripes from the fortress of Eh- renbreitstein, but The Watch on the Rhine, which, to Americans, is the fragment of a song, to the Frenchman and to the English man means the holding of a pass in the in- terests of civilization" Commenting upon a reported statement by Ambassador liar vey recently in a speech at Washington to the effect that the United States is damned well out of the European mess, The London Star says: Damned well out justly expresses. it, for if America had not been in such hurry to get out of the Euz ropean mess,' nor so determined to be profit-taker rather than taker of respon- sbility the mess might have been avoided" And the great British financial organ, the London Economist, is of the opinion that the withdrawal of American troops of occu- patton advertises Frances isolation and thus increases the danger that the "occupa- ton of the Ruhr may start conflagration which may spread right through Central Europe and the Balkans" The Paris Midi, in biting sarcasm, expresses it's opinion of us, stating that Ut is well understood on the other side of the Atlantic that France acts only through hate and in the spirit of rapine. This idea is emphasized by the dra- matic recall of the American troops, ordered on the same day as our advance" This paper refers to the attacks in the United States senate on the administration and MT. Hughes hedging attempts to defend himself, and concludes with: "But the impression we get is that the American government doesn't know. what it wants. It is against itself rather than against us; it is irritated with out, perhaps, knowing it. The entry of the French into the Ruhr is in reality, perhaps, only the inevitable result of the policy of abstention which the United States has prac- ticed toward Europe. Most of the heated words and all the threats of moral isolation cannot change this fact"
 Among the English journals which ar raign the French policy in the Ruhr, none is more savage than the London Outlook. Of Premiere Poincare it says he is assured of immortality as lone of the most colossal idiots, or the greatest of knaves, who ever strutted upon the stage of high human des- tines." The logical terminus of Frances march eastward is Berlin, according to the London Daily News, and that, the paper ob- serves, may, as far as is known, be Frances deliberate resolve. She would return empty-handed, however, the News believes, and adds: "That, together with the reputa- tion for having out-Prussianized the Prus- sians; and with the loss of her best friends in Europe, is what France will get for her mad and hopeless gamble"
 That Frances gamble is either mad or hopeless is not, however, accepted as final in all quarters in England Nor does she lack in that country friends whose hearts at least are with her in her effort to collect just and admitted debt Nom debtor who can pay, but will not pay A very consid- erable number of British observers see in Germany's tactics repetition of her fla nous and favorite baby act' and believe that when she has failed by her cry of op- pression to awaken sympathy or to draw to her side sufficiently strong support she will then forget her inability to pay and save her face by paying. They have an