New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1916, Page 10

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916. war, the standards of peace. To pre- | MINGS ANSWERS 'LEAN IN DEFENSE, OF DEMOCRACY pntinued from Ninth Page) administration with responsi- for the inadequate means left the republican party is injus- the grossest character. In the issue of preparedness fis no mistaking the of the president. ¢ can Americans differ about ety of America?” is the ques- jhat he submits to his fellow- [ymen. attitude or anuary and February he spoke | York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, kee, Chicago, DesMoines, To- [Kansas City and St. Louis, tak- punsel with the citizenship of untry concerning the prepared- ece: ry to the safety of th ¢, discussing with frankn bssible perils of the support for an adequate pol- naval and military preparation, psponse was immediate. The hry bills will be passed before lss adjourns. You may b or g0 too far—but clearly they pasures adopted in response to ntiment of American and arc b the right direction. The American Soldier. ow 1t 1s not good form to speak our army or navy, but at the being regarded as a pacifi ith apologies to Senator Mc- vho suggests that “our snldiers f called upon to march more en miles a day,” T call atten- b the recent performances of an troopers in Mexico. arch 24th, with 208 men of the th Cavelry Major Howze cut rom all communication. On e of five days rations the col- arched in 21 days, 5§71 miles, is only 100 miles less than ance from Paris to Berlin. marcheé, through a desert afforded no fodder and only with a Flavor Flavor is not expected of ordinary soda crackers. nour and ' debate | r these particular bills go far | intervals water for the horses, were no roads—only mountain But Uneeda Biscuit are extraordinary soda crackers and have a distinctive appetizing flavor. Buy Uneeda Biscuit because they are soda crackers with a flavor, but, above all, buy them for their crisp goodness. 5 cents everywhere NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY trails. During the entire march they were beyond reach of relief. They fought several engagements, wero Vi torious in all, and lost but one man. With all due respect to Senator Mc- Lean, I assert that there are no sol- diers in the world who could have ex- celled that feat of that little band of American troope That the spirit of America. That is illustra- tive of what Americans can do when put to the test. Support The President. The senator indulges in a prolonged and inconclusive consideration of the president’s foreign policies. At one moment he affects to believe the pres- ident infirm of purpose. In the next is The Ford Leads Them All! Ford Registrations April 1 to May 1. Next Seven Cars 1149 (Combined) 1167 Motor vehicle registrations at the state capitol, from April 1st to May 1Ist, inclusive, show that the FORD total is almost equal to that of the next seven cars combined. Simply another evidence of the fact that the FORD is in a class all by itself. 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If the senator desires to know what patriotic republicans ought to do, I commend to him the statement 1ade | by ex-President Taft, on April 21st, in ! an address delivered at Chicago Mr. Taft disousses the course pursued by President Wilson and says, “He is right and we all must stand by him. I cannot follow the reasoning of those who exalt Americanism and patriot- Ism and do not uphold his hands in the present crisis.” This was also the attitude of Sen- ator Root on April 1914, when, speaking at a banquet of the Amer- ican Society of International Law at the Willard Hotel in Washington, he said: “Thank Heaven dent in whose whose sincerity genuine desire to do what is right wise, patriotic, and what is best the country and humanity, we can all trust absolutely. 1 trust in him. T have differed from him in questions of policy and doubtl shall differ from him again. Men coming up with different environments and as- sociations and ideas must differ: I'ut 1 have confidence in the character and purpose of the president of the Tinit- ed States. He is my president and T will stand behind him in his leader- ship.’ These are ringing American words spoken before the political campaign opened and before the exigencies of the republican party required the distinguished lawyer to prepare a brief on the other side, Our Foreign Policies. The policy of the president is to our national honor and, if we have a lofty of presi- character, in purpose, in his ible to preserve peace. the and miseries of war, states- requires that the appeal to n and justice should first he em- rds manship = ! ployed, and that every resource known to diplomacy should he exhausted? Of course, there are irresponsible and excitable critics who complain of the vexation and delay necessarily inci- I dent to such negotiations. Alexander Hamilton and Rufus King criticised the diplomacy of in connection with the controversy. The members of cabinet of John Adams criticised negotiations with France. | Jeffe | Greeley was di | to maintain peace wi | when the Trent affair had stirred the | | anger of our people. | distressing international problems be- | | country while he met | town.” John Randolph bitterly n's foreign policy. Horace atisfied with diplomacy of Lincoln, and many men mistook themselves for statesmen, condemned the action of Lincolt in overruling his Secretary of the Nav; and even the house of representative h Great Britain attacked We have had fore. In 1793 during the war be- tween England and France, the for- mer seized and held hundreds of ves- sels floating the American flag. That incident in our history led Charles Sumner to say, “Washington uphold- ing the peaceful neutrality of this unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly cry- ing for war is a greater man than ‘Washington crossing the Delaware or taking Cornwallis' sword at York- Fifty-four forty or dght,” hut we settled the Oregon dispute with England by writing notes and by ne- gotlations. During the Civil War the dispute with England, concerning the Ala- hama and other y vateers wh destroyed American commerce, dis { turbed@ American sentiment, but Lin- coln wrote notes saved his count Tn 1873 Spain and negotiated from war. seized the ship Vir- giniug, fiying the American flag, and shot the captain of the ship, sIx of the crew and twelve passenger: but President Grant wrote notes and resorted to diplomacy and saved the country from war. The bloodthirsty attitude assumed { by Mr. Root nd Mr. Roosevelt of whom, curiously enough were ciplents of the Noble Peace Prize one of those astonishing revelations indicative of the manner in which men of repute are apt to lose their heads in a national crisis Rut the president of the United States has not { lost his head, nor has he lost sight and hoth e | of the true vision of what America means to the world. Tt has heen his Adiificult task to maintain, in {ime of for | | New Who will | the | | services of the president have merely | h had | thirty- | serve peace, under such circumstances is a far nobler accomplishment than to lead ion in war. Onc can al- have war. It should be a last All our great statesmen have warned us against it. The pages of history are filled with their admonitions. Washington and Jefferson Franklin and Lincoln and Grant had a horror of war, but shall any one that they lacked courage or and flinched or failed? people have sufficient The American discernment to | triotism that rushes headlong ! controversy and that real patriotism which is not easily provoked to bit- terness or violence or reprisal which for that very fact may counted upon for all the great fastness in the real ! peril, be ead- hour of national Belgium. American people their feeling The what no may have been with regard to Belgium know that the | attitude of neutrality assumed hy our president was the only correct pe tion that could have been taken. Had a_contrary position been assumed the sinking of the Lusitania, when it came, would almost ine v required us to join the conflict. | Tt may be true that some citizens would have approved {his | course and have accepted the results | by of gladly but they are but a mere frac. tion of our people. Mr. Root w. tor when the came to this s United S Belgium representative country, and Senator McLean was also in the senate. T do not recall that either of these | statesmen arose to suggest the pro- | priety upon the part of the presi dent of writing a note of disapproval to Germany cven weeks later, Mr. Roosevelt in the Outlook of Septen ber 23rd. 1914, said: “Of course i would have been folly to jump into the gulf ourselves {0 No good purpose | and very probably nothing we could have done would have helped Bel. gium. Only the clearest and most urgent national duty would ever jus- tify us in deviating from our rule of { neutrality and non-interference. | Since that time, my friend wa | have heard a deal of nonsense about { what the government ought to have done; but the common sense of Amer- ican citizenship will appraise iticisms at their just value. American Diplomacy. Some sensitive and nervous people are alarmed lest we become laughing stock of Burope. be reassured. the The diplomacy old world, in the iight of the tragic events of the last two years, has little to commend it to the free peo- ple of this country important to know what Ame thinks of the statesmanship of rope than what Europe thinks | the statesmanshin of America. The democratic party is treading the traditional path of enlightencd of the of | ashington, in his farewell dress, expressed the hope “that | may never unsheath the sword | cept in self-defense. long as tice and our essentfal rights | national respectability can be | served without it | Our president | York, expressed the when he said: “Americans seelt a contest or cravenly avoid ono. | They would fight for the vindication | of their honor and character. { liberty and for free institutions | We are a peace loving people: are a patient people { ful people and, let | a just people. {hus the courage to avoid an | sary war will not lack the | to wage a righteous one | The World Conflict. | We may not be able to maintain | peace. No one can foresee what a Jdny may bring forth. But this i | | | ad ox- sSo ju speaking recently iy same we are a power- us hope, we are unneces - coura know, up to the present moment our president has kept out of this world conflict. If trouble comes are immeasurably better prepared | for it than we were a year ago. | the matter of the ability to produce | the munitions of war, perhaps most important thing of all. we a thousand per cent. better off we were when this war hegan. us ™ If the delayed the hour of our entry the conflict, America can never pay the debt it owes him. Away, T say, with the evil counsels of impatience. We must have the fairness to appreciate that while we | negotiate there are millions of our fellow creatures ‘“to whom the war has changed the aspect of the earth and imager; of hecaven.” | The grave-heaps and heart-breal ! the utter agony and despair of man- kind—surely these things shouid teach us humanity and forh, nee and patience. We must make allow- ance for these unprecedented con- ditions and we must not darken that lone light that shines from loving Amecrica upon the troubled and | desperate peoples of the earth Lincoln would have been moved a great compassion by a world such travail. Let us summon memory the undying words ‘“‘with malice toward none, with charity "al, let us strive to do the right | God gives us to see the right.” . Thoughtless Criticism. those who are entrusted with in a national crisis are vio- | lently riled. Tet me read you a | quotation recently appearing in the public press: “How much longer is the nation | prepared to drift under the domin- | ation of leaders who refuse to lead, | who will not act and who suffer from [ chronic inability to make up their | minas | That, my friends, sounds but it is not a criticism ent administration. It | trom the London I | into to in to our h for as | An | power as ramiliar, of the pres- taken Daily Mail criti ing the Asquith ministry. History tells us that when Wash- ington decided upon a policy of neu- trality between Great Britain and | France, when those two count were at war, he was violently a sailed. 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Overlooking The Capitol Grounds — 40-56 Ford St.. “Where quality is higher than price.” that we owed a duty to France and that an opportunity had been pre- | sented to repay to her, in some meas- ure, the services that she had ren- | us at the time of the revo- | i Hartford. BARBOUR RUG | & DRAPERY CO. 200 TRUMBULL ST. HARTFORD lution. incline us to that side. Feeling he- came intense and bitter. Valley Forue and Yorktown were forgotten and the effigy of Washington was burned in the public streets of our citles. Our neutrality violated at home and abroad, political criticism degenerated and Washington said he would rather be in his grave than be President of the United States. But he adhered to his purpose and that sorry page in American history teaches us that Washington was right. In the period of the Civil war, Lin- coln was similarly attacked. Scarce- Iy a week passed that a delegation did not go to Washington to tell him | how to run the government. He w accused of vascillation, of inability make up his mind. He was called a | clown, a butcher, a hell-hound of lavery, a traitor, a despot, a gorilla. | a baboon, a fool, an ignorant bac woods lawyer, a scoundrel and a vil- | lian. There were Roosevelts in th time: but Lincoln adhered to his e and his calm spirit rests to- | a benediction upon America. | accused of truckling to Britain and was denounce:d upon the floor of congress. It reported that when one delegation came to see the president he X‘(‘]\hr\l‘ follows: ! was| to | VISIT QUR RUG SALE 25 48 LEWIS STREET HARTFORD as suppose all the pro- | in gold and “Gentlemen, ! vou hs liberty- | | ‘Blondin [ nittle | lence and we will get you safe across ! President d put it in the hands of Blon- carry across the Niagara rive rope. Would you shake the or keep shouting to him, stand up a little straighter, Blondin stoop a little lower, go @ faster, lean a little more to the north, lean a little more to the south.” No. you would hold vour breath as well as your tongue and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The government is carrying an enormous weight, untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the best they Do not badger them, keep din to on a cable an. s in the history of our countr McKinley was the vietim of similar vituperation. McKinley was for peace even when the Maine 1 in and implored his country- men not to disturb the orderly pro- cesses of diplomacy. No one who reads the debates congress during that period can to feel a tlush of shame because the unbridled and malicious criticisin to which he was subjected. They called him weak and vascillating and exhausted the vocabulary of vitupcr- Evil for selfish forces, reck- Jess forces were at work in Ameri then as now, and, in the end, forced McKinley reluctantly into war. And now, in the darkest day the world’s history, Later ruins, in fail of ation. of | | i | | a stonewall—resisting thesc same evil | fore Ame: < Mission. There is no difficully about geeting this of into war. have But it might men the hour could ged it for you long ago. has ! heen our hopc that America remain at We peace. are the only great { nation on earth. In a ce: we are the trustees of judgments of the world. keep undisturbed foundations of disengaged tain sense the moral the great international | must stable justice America’s miss humanity and that our place in the immediate years to come shall be to bind up the wounds of war, strengthen the bonds of fraternity that ought to unite all humanity everywhere. 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