The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-25
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homes went to the front witn Vigor anu decision.
 They who were indifferent when the lives of women and children were in- volved hastened to the conference with the Turks in pursuit of the Chester oil concession and became a party ito the infamy of the Lausanne tfeaty--a treaty which .abandons our missionaries to the Turks and betrays Armenia into the hands of it's assassins.
 Show this administration an oil well and it will show you a foreign policy.
 With world dismayed by disorder and steeped in sorrow we have waited patiently for this giant nation ito as- sume its commanding part. But no; their leaders, like slackers moved by fear, have turned and run away. Amid l.all this worlds confusion, with it's broken spirit and lost confidence, with wreck and ruin throughout Europe, this administration has complacently looked, on and skulked. Never before in all it's history has America turned a deaf ear to the appeal of humanity or the call of civilization. Foreign countries have sought. our advice. They have pleaded for our counsel; but, To, their suppi- cations have been ignored and their pleas rejected.
 The democratic party offers no apology for its foreign policies. When the Woodrow Wilson plan for world adjustment was wrecked by the selfish and jealous hands of reactionary republican leadership, world hope for peace was shattered
 and European rehabilitation indefi-
 nitely deferred. The tragedy Is they wrecked our plan and offered noth.
 ing instead. This administration cannot escape It's responsibility for the feverish condition of the world.
 What they are now seeking to dS - with reparations should have been done years ago. Out in the pro gressive northwest and tiroughouf
 the great western plains agricui. ture languishes for want of atten-
 tion. Farmers are in the throes of
 despair. More than 60O.000 in
 that great wheat section alone have
 been driven to bankruptcy during
 this administration.
 Would you know the difference be- tween norma1cy and prosperity? Here it is: S In the democratic year of 1917 the country experienced seven national bank
 In the democratic year of 1918 the country experienced two national bank failures.
 And in the democratic year of 1919 the country experienced only one na- tional bank failure.
 Within less than four years of re- publican normalcy more than 1857 bankrupted. A
 During the first three months of this year 265 banks have failed, with total banks have failed and millions of people liabilities of over $100,O00, ,000.s
 The distressing conditions that con- front agriculture when other industries specially favored are prosperous should at least appeal to the stony hearts of this administration. But the republican nominee and his reactionary followers in the Congress have not permitted any governmental relief being extended to them, for the reason, as very impress sively stated by the republican nominee on December G., 1923, in his first mes sage to the Congress:
 "Those farmers,p he said, "who raise their living on their own lands are not greatly in distress" Those sentiments come from the heart throbs of the re- publican nominee, and the present de- plorable plight. of the American. farmer is due to callous indifference and their. cowardly, isolated foreign policy. No economist but knows that this selfish policy, without vision, is responsible for . Continued on Page six
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