Foreign News: 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...

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