Advice

General Tauflieb, Senateur for Alsace, imparted a few words of advice to his fellow countrymen. Le Senateur urged Frenchmen to remember three things about Americans when discussing the debt question:

"1) Americans do not mix business with sentiment. They do not admit that balance sheets can be established with blood and ink, that a balance can be established between ledger columns with, on the one hand, gold ingots and, on the other hand, corpses.

"2) Of all sentimental manifestations there is none which is more alien to the American spirit than self-pity. This virile people hates whining.

"3) Americans are too deeply inspired with the feeling of independence to allow anybody to dictate the manner in which they should show generosity. There is everything to gain by letting them choose themselves what they shall do. Cyrano was rather like that."

He perorated:

"It is useless to hold forth now concerning the moral character of our obligations. American business men will only listen to us on commercial grounds. Let us speak of them as men of affairs. Above all, do not let us appear to be trying to conjure away any part of our debt or to be trying to tie their hands."