“Let a man shirk a responsibility |
to his family, to his neighbor, or to i
his country.'’ continued Mr. Under- |
wood, “M'.J. in the end he will pay for
It. A nation is only men in the mil
lions. it our country skirks , er re
: r. ity nruo* . the nations she
will pay for it dearly.”
Ref rring to European govern- j
mental affairs, the speaker declared
that there was not a ministry in the
great countries which engaged in tlie
war that knows it will exist two
weeks in the future. Sot only change
of government but evolution itself is
threatened, he said.
OOO
.Forvrcs Dire Consequences.
“If the present German government
should fail it may be the last we
illia.il seo under the republic," he pre
dicted “And if it falls chaos is the j
/nevltable result."
Stability 'f business. Senator Un-j
derw-'Od r.tl \ was impossible with- i
out Eta' i'.ity of government.
Th tariff wall enacted by the re
cent t’i ugreus, the speaker believed,
\\a}, obstructing the f. ■ cf Euro-'
r*of;.n truue to America. !!•■* declared
that the Underwood tariff of 11)13
had operated through a period of
great prosperity in the United States, i
American industries, he said, weri
no longer “infant” but were well 1
gr Varr’ tyrther protection was un*
—_\heir development.
