New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1915, Page 6

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Rooms ROTECT THE PARK. 8 the past two or three weeks ersons, either through ignor- malice aforethought, rneved to the new city park orth End and, with axe and e chopped and cut down some prettiest trees on that domain. practice is allowed to continue utiful land which es in all its pristine glory, will lly be devastated and convert- an assemblage of stumps and s wild and dreary as any in land in the west, as unin- s the Dismal Swamp. reports to the City Hall, many persons who are gathering in bd from the new city park do use Lhey are not aware of the of the offense. Others know d has been set aside by the a natural park and that it is d as a rendezvous for those puld get away from the never- hg line of hou from the of concreted sireets. Those ilfully cut down the sentinels re are committing [They are thieves in every sense word and as such should be d. If there are any persons Britain who are so poor they o to the woodland and destroy ul trees that they might have br the winter then the city ‘do well to give these people [d succor. Britain in its new city park kes one of the most beautiful lof virgin land in all New Eng- Very few cities in any part with tract of S, common country can lay claim to such [human beings is a crime that horrifies | Lot orld. tiful woodland as that which the north end of this city. It bosed to further enhance the at- eness of this site by threading h pathways and walks, bridle and carriage drives. The one lary essential is to preserve its t natural appearance. The land brushwood must remain if o be the park it is intended. In order to accomplish this it is htely necessary that people re- from carrying away the wood. of the prettiest birch treesin the have been cut down during the In all, some thirty been ay or so. rty valuable trees have ld away in less than a week. The hould see to it that appropriate warning the people against Lssing are set up in convenient s so that offenders, innocent and , may be warned. ZARD IN THE OFFING. ce in the good old days it was dore Roosevelt who sought the pages of newspapers for the ex- htion of his name and ideas. it is William Jennings Bryan who | aken up the role of publicity br in all its vulgarity. Mr. Bryan let nothing pass that might get back on the -front page. He zes he'is a ‘‘goner,” a hopeless ical wreck, a cast-off, and so he in the dark corners and the of the way places with a black- in his hand ready to sand-bag and all who might come his way. ident Wilson is his latest victim. venerable, peace-loving, erstwhile letary of State has hurled another is celebrated ‘“‘God Bless Yous” e man in the White House. And tlme it looks as if the traitorous bns of the self-glorified one will in a split in the democratic . By attacking President Wil- s Manhattan club speech, by as- ing the plan the chief executive advanced for the protection of the lv, the whilom “Boy Orator of the te” makes manifest a coming le at the next session of Congress. s, having declared hjmself a fist, he announces & war. And, be understood, Mr. Bryan has a hful following in the House of presentatives. There are still some ‘he Bryan Democrats, although not Y, who adhere to hig principles. t he cannot get from his own ty the crafty Nebraskan will boldly empt to steal from the Republicans. f,- he has announcad, he is going to Be this fight to the end, no matter | many is united and at efféct it has on the President, the Démocratic party, or on him- . And when he says that, deep | n in his kindly heart he means all William Jennings Bryan must be saved, no matter what the ,outcome. The President, the Demo- crats, the nation'can all go hanged just so long as Bryan’s head kept above water and he is allowed to wave his olive branch. It is to be hoped the nation will take Mr. Bryan at his face value and not worry toc much over his wilful and wicked machinations. is He has been well named the Com- mander of the Piffle, the bark that sails the unruffled sea of Grape Juice, laden with a cargo of ‘‘God Bless Yous” and manned by crew of psalm singers. a MUST WE HAVE ANOTHER DECLARATION? Some one hundred and more years ago this land over which floats Stars and Stripes of from Great Britain its political free- dom. Since then the people who have settled on these shores have known the contentment and joy that comes to those who profess no allegiance to prince, king or potentate. For some c¢ne hundred and thirty-nine years then, to be exact, we have bowed the knee to none, gone our trammeled, hindering no one, well to all, the messengers will to all men. Now comes i915 with a war in Europe America won e way un- wishing of good the year at it zenith, with nations tearing out each «ther’'s heart-strings, with brother aligned against brother, with hatred, racial and ‘national, surmounting cverything. And becaise of this con- dition in a portion of the globe some United States the people of this country must be made suffer the sins of those in other lands. The very | foundations of our nation must be 1ent asunder by these peoples who | care not one iota for anyone or any- | thing in this land, other than it be | the profits to be gained by having us | take sides. And while Germany has! committed many grievances against | the honor and di~nity of the United | States, it remains for England to play | the role of real villain. While Ger- many has, without rime or reason, Tuthlessly destroyed many innocent American lives, England has, like a thief in the night made a bold attempt to dominate the commerce of this country. And, because the killing of mankind more readily than the mere destruction of commerce, England has been allowed to revel in her doings | while a quick halt has been demanded from .Germany. .But now, that sub- Tiarine warfare has somewhat suhAI sided and we have plenty of time to | consider other ‘phases ‘of the i Guestion, people in all sections of the | republic are wondering when the | United States is going to call a halt | to the invidiols practices of Great ) Pritain anent ‘our overseas commerce, | war when this country is going to demana | that England’'s” acts shall cease. Tt is true that the United States government has protested these out- rages; ‘but it’ is likewise true that Great Britain has turned a deaf ear and continues to carry on her nefari- ous work., With a wilfulness that is past understanding Great Britain has, for almost ane year, seized American ships engaged in neutral trade, de- taining their cargoes and doing away with them according to the best in- terests of the British empire. ‘With all this going on can one wonder that the cotton interests of the South, the wheat growers of the Middle West, the manufacturers of New England, the farmers of the ertire country, the beef packers of Chicago, and all persons and firms en- gaged in foreign trade are getting ready for concentrated protest against the manner and way in which things are going on? Is there any wonder the American people are beginning to chafe under the yoke that Britain is trying to fasten on their necks? One hundred and thirty odd years ago we told a few things to England and her kings, and since then we have been getting along famously. On July 4, 1776 Congress adopted a solemn Declaration of Independence, Possibly it is time Great Britain were given a gentle reminder of what our Declaration of Independence meant and still means. A few stiff sen- tences in plain, unvarnished English lingo might have the necessary effect. If not there are other ways. unjust and illegal Great Oh, Yes! We Shall Have Peace. “It is only when right shall have been restored by victory and when she shall have obtained every guaran- tee for a durable peace that France will sign a peace.”—Premier Brian, before the French Chamber of Depu- ties and Senate. “The war must be fought out. Ger- possesses every resource in material and, above all, in unity and resolve to continue the war to its conclusion by arms.”—Prince Von Buelow, former German Chan- cellor, the | | and effete west business of late.—Wa- three thousand miles away from the | FACTS AND FANCIES. “l1f we prepare for war, we will get it,”” says Chancellor Day. May- be, but we won't be so likely to get it in the neck as we shall if we do | | not prepare.—Rochester Union. 4‘ Divorce proceedings in the case of British soldiers at the front are to stand over a sensible decision, for | some of them may prove quite un- necessary.—Springfield Republican. October past out in a blaze of au- tumnal splendor and November, up ' to date, is living right up to the; pleasant memories left in the weather line by its predecessor.—Ansonia Sen- tinel. At that the waif who became the adopted heir of the Gould millions will probably not nave nearly as much, fun as he would had he been overlooked —Birmingham Aze-Her- ald. Arizona is seeking to recall its governor, and from recent develop- ments in that state it would not be surprising if the governor himself would not object to being recalled. —Louisville Post. Porter Charlton told the Itallan court he was ‘‘a most unfortunate man.” But as he goes free in a month most people will think him mighty lucky.-—Pittsburg Djspatch. i An Atchison, | year old woman, i | set of teeth, and her hair is turning | from silver to brown. If you want { to be born again, move to Kansas.— | Columbus (0.) Citizen. Kan., seventy-six- is cutting her third | Oklahoma has had a train holdup | and the zome of desperadoes has shifted to its normal territory. There has been too much of the wild east tertown Times. The fight against tuberculosis, the country over, has already been re- warded in bringing down the death rate. The fight should be continued all along the line. That is one of the diseases where the least let-up is fatal.—Middetown Press. Judging from the number of pic- tures we have seen of the various Garibaldis taking part in the present war, they must be quite as accus- tomed to the click of the camera by this time as they are to the whistle of passing bullets.—Syracuse Herald. Nothing seems more certain than that to the slaughter of millions the slaughter of more millions must be added. Germany and Austria are far from beaten. The ring of the allies remains unbroken. Neither side shows any inclination to confess de- feat or call a truce—New York As a convert to peace cruising the Kronprinz Wilhelm, once perverted to war, finds no Washington dis- couragement. We wish internment at Sing Sing had as good an effect on the militant social pirates when Os- borne seeks to win over to better ways.—Brooklyn Eagle. What is the object of the Reichstag in passing a law to forbid the sale of German ships? There are many of these in American ports—a fact which the administration was sub- posed to have in view when it push- ed its ship purchase bill. Is taking | then out of the market as indication that Germany is not anxious to see the American merchant marine in- creased at German expense?—Phil- adelphia Ledger. || Scanning the Neaws The dove of peace is floating on A strata of hot air Dubbleyou Jay Bee is spouting forth His anti-bellum prayer. He doesn’t think we ought to be Preparing for a fignt, | But should receive | A foreign peeve | With manners most polite, The Republicans have found a stall For a war horse of the party, And Curtis at the money bin will now Enjoy a feed most nearty. ‘We cannot say we wish him ill In latest avocation, He’s surely due To “get a few" He deserves remuneration. ‘We’ve most run out of stuff about This blanked-de-blanky war. We wish they'd call it off because ‘We find a thyme no more. The Bulgars chase the French around A pink spot on the map. The Russians win And lose agin, The British set a trap. The Montenegrins hold their foe Along the Austrian front. Von Hindenberg’s preparing for Another warlike stunt. The Italians scale a dizzy mount, Its garrison surprise. Of a submarine Naught has been seen; It’s sunk, is the surmise- These Do Not Exist. (New London Day.) A bureau without several collar buttons under it. A theatrical press agent who not smoke ¢ retts. A woman who never gazed at her reflection in a plate glass window. A railroad brakeman who can pro- nounce Schenectady in English. A candidate who is not the ple’s Choice.” A ‘nousewife who doesn't sharpen her pencil with knife. dozen does “Peo- always the butcher- | 1 for A cat that docsn't want to get out when it is in and in when it is out. A baby that -can’t get a dollar watch in its mouth. A house that costs less architect said it would, than the WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Letting Fire Have Its Way. (Waterbury Democrat.) Speaking of the terrible disaster in Peabody, Mass., in which twenty- one school girls were burned to death, a local police official is quoted as saying: ‘Apparently the loss of life was not due to any lack of fire precautions, but simply to the un- fortunate place in which the fire | started, almost under the front steps, and to the accident which blocked the front door. Fires have a habit of starting in ‘“unfortunate places. It is a shrewd enemy; it should be treated as a fiend endowed with hu- man intelligence. The way to fight fire is the way Daniel Boone fought Indians. He would figure out what he himself would do if he were in { the Indians’ place, and then proceed to outwit his own plans; and almost invariably he figured right, and checkmated the redskins. It should be assumed that fire will start in the most dangerous part of a build- ing, that it will take every imagin- ary advantage of the building’s oc- cupants. Starting with that assump- tion, nelther builders nor public :1{1€hor|tles would tolerate such con- ditions .as the city of Peabody is ex- ‘cusing—a school building without fire escapes, a main stairway of com- bustible material with a space under it favorable for flames, and doors Which if they did not open inward— which would have been Inexcusably criminal—were capable of jamming and blocking the exit. That stair- ‘Wway inevitably recalls the fatal stair- way and jammed doors of the school building in Collinwood, O., where 167 school children were burned to death in 1908. How many other stairways in school buildings, factories, hotels and apartment houses all over the Tnited States afford fire, the great enemy, the same fatal advantage? Press on Preparedness. (Meriden Journal) The editors of the World's recently took a poll of the press of the country on preparedness, the re- sults of which appear in the Novem- ber issue of the magazine. No paper of the entire 261 ex- pressed downright opposition to pre- paredness. Six newspapers were either more interested in other aspects of our relation to the possibility of war or were so lukewarm toward prepar- edness as to suggest an opposition they did not express. The degree to which the others would prepare, the methods by which they would prepare, differ. Some de- mand the biggest navy in the world and some think more submarines and coast defense guns will suffice. Some favor a big standing arm some, an enlarged national guard; some, universal compulsory training. The majority opinion favors a navy second in power to Great Britain’s and a reorganization of our land Work | forces to give us an increased stand- ing army and ultimately a réserve of a million men. The papers treat the question of preparedness as the most important subject before the new congress which convenes in December, and warn that body that the country demands prompt and ade- quate measures to meet the situation. (New Haven Register.) There are many obvious reasons which make automobile accidents commoner and more serious at night; there is one which is not so obvious, but is none the less to be expected. Did you ever hear of an instance in which a lone person, driving for some distance late at night, fell asleep at the reins, but was saved from trouble by the intelligence of his horse, which avoided obstacles and took him safely j home, waking him by the action of stopping in his own farmyard? Now as the use of the machine be- comes more general, and the novelty of it wears off, there are likely to be such instances among those who drive it. They will not happen so often, experience teaches the prudent person that his life depends on keep- ing awake. But there must now and then be a case in which tired na- ture, the lullaby of the purring motor, combine to overcome even the instinct of self-preservation. And when the man at the wheel falls asleep, Of course something happens Without much delay. If the outcome is less than serious injury to the machine or its occupants or to someone who gets in their way, they are fortunate. Perhaps there isn’t much that can be done to forestall occasional acci- dents due to this cause. But owners of machines which are used for livery purposes can at least see to it that their drivers are not required to keep such long hours as induce perilous sleepliness. As for the private driver he must look to himself. He should fully appreciate the peril of yielding to the least tendency to sleepiness. The Verse-Hating Censor. (Waterbury Republican.) Here in free America where there is no governmental press censorship one may find it difficult ta understand some of the protests which are made in the English newspapers against the censorship that has ruled them since the outbreak of the war. Listen to this complaint of the TLondon Times: We published yesterday a first-hand account of the fighting at Hulluch on October 13. 1In the course of it our correspondent, describing the storm of bombs. shells, gasses and other means of destruction which fell upon the enemy, was rash enough to quote Browning’s Twenly-nine distinch damnations, One sure, if the other fails. His message was duly submitted to the censor, who passed it without ma- terial alteration-—except for the Brawning quotation. Now we cannot pretend to fathom the military reasons which rendered it indiscreet to quote the text of a great ' poem as its author wrote it. Whether the suggestion that our methods of de- | struction numbered twenty-nine would give information to the Germans, or | whether strict accuracy refused to countenance the implication that they were so numerous, or whether too cise a familiarity with Browning was calculated to depress the people of this country, or to shake their confi- dence in the government in short, whatever the motive of the censor may have been, we can only record the fact. And the fact is that the words ‘twenty-nine distinet’ were neatly ruled out and the single word ‘different’ inserted instead of them. We do not complain. Incidents far less frivial and far more damaging to our national reputation are daily fea- tures of the censorship. Isn’t the burden of the English peo- pleple heavy enough at this time with- out provoking wrath in their hearts by such bungling officiousness as is com- plained about? And just imagine, if possible, what would happen with such censorship in this country. Mayor Wilson &nd Bridgeport. (Waterbury American.) Remembering what foolish inter- pretations were put upon the result of our municipal election by some | commentators on the ouuiés, we hesitate to pretend to understand Mayor Wilson's triumphant re-elec- tion in Bridgeport. He was supposed to have had an understanding with | the Democratic candidate opposed to him. This led a strong element to nominate a third candidate. This third candidate succeeded in beating the Democratic candidate, but it is a question whether his candidacy did not actually serve to help Wilson. He evidently took more votes away from the Democrat than he did from the Republican. His vote and that of the Democrat together was greater than Wilson’s. Whether this vote opposed to Wilson could have been united on one candidate, supposing the other were withdrawn, is very doubtful. It is a case where a pow- erful political organization, which seems to control the machinery of both parties, was stronger than the disorganized forces in opposition. Mr. Wilson's election will be held as a great Republican victory. But it must have been accomplished by Democratic votes. Socialists and la- bor voters lost their identity in the great fight over Wilson. The power- lessness of the press when trying to lead public opinion against the pop- ular feeling is shown in a marked degree in Bridgeport. Mr. Wilson was opposed by all the newspapers but one and they all made him the issue and attacked him with bitter persistence. Perhaps part of his victory was due to this martyrdom by the press. (Waterbury Democrat.) The noonday nap is coming into favor again. Not among women, be it known, but among men, and the biggest, most successful men at that. And the idea is no longer looked upon as old-fashioned. It's thought extremely modern. There have al- ways been practitioners of the nap habit, even in the most “strenuous” days of American business and poli- tics. John D. Rockefeller made it an invariable habit of his active life to take a half-hour nap in his office after lunch. He had a couch in his inner sanctum, and his secretary's orders to keep out visitors during the half-hour were absolute. 1t made no difference who came to see him, or what the urgency of the busi- ness was. The oll business might totter on the cdge of ruin, the fi- nancial world might be going to smash, but for John D. the world stopped moving for that half-hour. And at the end of it he issued forth with his eye clear, the weary lines smoothed from his face and his breath deep and steady, ready to face any man or tackle any Jjob. Tom Johnson, famous for years as the ‘“three-cent fare” mayor of Cleveland, mixed the noon nap Wilh politics with conspicuous success. Johnson was a tireless worker. In campaign time 'he worked literaily day and night, wearing out all his subordinates. His energy seemed in- exhaustible. But every afternoon, after lunch, Johnson would turn all the political hangers-on out of his office, pull down the window shades, stretch 'his portly frame on an old couch and drop off to sleep while his secretary stood guard outside. In about twenty minutes he was ready for another twelve hours' work or fight. Now they say the habit is becoming general in Wall street, and there are big business and professional men in every city in the country who take their after- lunch naps unashamed. And it's a curious co-incidence that they're generally the men that get the best of a deal—particularly in the after- noon, when they're fresh as daisies and the man they're dealing with are tired. They live longer, too, as a rule. And they don’t have nervous prostration. Think This Over. (Manchester Herald.) When the ultimate consumer buys a hat, a pair of shoes, a suit of cloth- ing, a parlor sofa or a package of breakfast food, he pays a price that covers full manufacturing costs, plus advertising and selling expenses, plus a profit for the jobber, and thus a profit for the retailer. One or one and a half times the cost of manu- facture is the general average for selling staples, while in the drug lines and specialties in all lines, gro- cery, textile, hardware, etc., the sell- ing cost rises to four, five and six times the cost of manufacture. The selling cost of one of our most suc- cessful typewriters is reported to be five times its cost of manufacture. In the printing trade it is different. There are no extra profits in print ing, and most printing is sold below cost, yet the consumer who has been educated to pay these prices for other commodities, pays none of these extra costs and profits which other products carry, when he buys printing. There s no jobber's profits, no retailer’s profit, and com- paratively little profit for the printer (who is a manufacturer) in the average printing job. “Printers,"” says the publication called “Printer’'s Ink,” ‘are not 'a set of robbers; as a rule they are quite & decent set of men. If you only knew the close margins on which most of them have been working you would =ay they are the largest aggregation of philan- thropists in the country. Why? Be- cause most of them have been giving their customers their profits—mak- ing them a present of their labor at about cost. Think this over, Mr. Consumer, and if your printer—who- cver he may be—asks you a little more than he did for the last job of like nature, do not think that he is robbing vou, because he is not. He probably asked a smaller percentage of profit than you are asking for your labor and your product. The Way the Rallroads Are Crowded. (Indianapolis News.) Reports from such ports as New York, New Orleans and Galveston in- dicate something of the tremendous volume of business being done in this country, particularly in munitions of war. The Central railroad of New Jersey has been forced to ue an order to its agents to decline any freight for two weeks. The Southern Pacific has refused new consignments shipped from Cezlifornia and the south by rail to New Orleans or Galveston and thence by steamer to New York Rallroads operating in New England are so congested with freight from the large munitions centers that it has been found necessary to hold up consignments all along the line. Part of the trouble is due to strikes among freight handlers in New York and to the storm, which caused great damage at Galveston, but freight traffic man- agers assert that even under the most favorable conditions, the roads would find conditions in handling the great volume of freight. The closing of the Panama Canal for an indefinite period has caused a sudden increase in the volume of transcontinental freight. Large con- signments of canned fruit from Cali- fornia destined for the war zone were to be delivered through the canal. Although not perishable, there is urgent need for food stuffs in Europe, consequently delay would mean a large loss to the shippers. The quick shifting of this traffic caught some lines unprepared, and they are now resorting to every ex- pedient which will facilitate freight movements. The character of some of the freight shipped from points near New York has affected the sit- nation. Gun parts, shrapnel, loco- motives and heavy madhinery have increased the tonnage to a large ex- tent, and this is the hardest kind of freight to handle at terminals. Scattering reports of good husiness ‘here and there are not nearly so en- couraging as this graphic illustration of the bulk of manufactured prod- ucts. The freight congestion is bad for the shipper, for the manufac- turers working on rush war orders and for the railroads. In the long run it will no doubt work a hardsaip on the labor leaders, who took ad- vantage of the situation to lead freight handlers into demands for in- creases in wages which they would have had great difficulty in securing in normal times. But the conges- tion comes as a timely and effective 1eply to contentions that war busi- ness is not genuine. One Of The Death Squad. If I were one of a corps o' ten Piped out at break o' day, An’ I stood in line with my fellow- men As I heard the dead march play, An’ I saw a women before the wall Face front to our slaughter line, I'd make dead sure that she wouldn’t fall. From any o' mine. bullet that was bound by a solemn tie My emperor to obey, Would make right there of my vow a lie, An’ never regret the day. They might drum me out o' the ranks o' men An set me to herdin’ swine, | But I'd know no woman had fallen, | when I shouldered thiz gun o' 1, mine. I might snip a leaf off the topmost twig Of the oak tree standing by. Or a waverin’ sort of a furrow dig In the church tower, loomin' high. An' a frightened crow might take to wing As the mouth o' my rifle spat. But no woman’s breast should feel its sting, For I'd make dead sure o’ that! —Edgar A. Guest in the Detroit Free Press. Watterson on the Manhattan Club. (New York Herald.) “1 regret that I shall not be able to accept your invitation to join my clubmates, including the president of McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Coats, Suits and Dresses Attrac- fively Priced for- Saturday’s Selling - WOMEN’S AND MISSES’, COATS $7.98, $9.98, $12.98 to $25.00. including all colors, made up into the newest models of the very latest weaves in smart coatings. 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McMILLAN. 199-201.203 - MAIN SR b government of, for and by the people in that great metropolis which, lead- ing the comme: piration and the thought of the nation, “1 congratulate you that vance of the fiftieth anniversary of s | birth is to be signalized by the pare ticipation of a president of the United States, who, as a member of the club, understands its character and wefleds its traditions, and who, both as state- man and historian, will know how o hold Ligh and firm the banner of de mocracy unterrified and undefiled; 4 steer the Ship of State safely betwedh the United States, in celebrating the fiftieth birthday of our honored fra- ternity and to be one of the speakers on that occasion, but I may not deny myself nor be excluded from my share in the triumph of a festival ren- dered the more interesting and im- portant by his presence. “The Manhattan club was organized in 1865 to save the democratic party from threatened destruction. For a season it had been trampled beneath the feet of marching armles, its vital- ity arrested by division and defeat, its principles obscured by the hattle clouds of a war of states and sections, It was organized by men possessing in highest degree and measure the love of country and the courage of convie- tion. Half a century it has sought to embody and maintain the philoso- phies expounded by Thomas Jeffer- son; to be, as it were, a rampart of constitutional freedom and law, a bul- the Secylla of Centralization and the Charybdis of Anarchy, preserving the spiritual beliofs no less than the mas terial interests of the people. “Two members of the Manhattan club, Samuel Jones Tilden and Grover Cleveland, contributed largely to the fulfilment of the ends for which the club was created and to which it di~ dressed itself. It was the destiny of Andrew Johnson, another member of the club. to rescue the country from the dangers of partyism during & period of political frenzy. “God grant it be the destiny of Woodrow Wilson, likewise and now a member of the club, to reconcile strength of administration with popus lar ideals, compelling a world at war to find in the American Republic r once an ennobling example, a help| hand and a friend in need. ‘1 wish 1 might be with you to pe= joice in the occasion and to make Fo=| wark against devious teaching ana transitory passion. It stands today the most influential representative of newed tender of my loyal devotion our hallowed association and 0 vincible party.” ould lead the as- | the obsers