New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 3

0’Sullivan Hits and Klan Bigotry in Keynote Democratic State Conven- tion Also Hears Sound Advice on Party Activity and Hints of Disappoint- ment ThatsSmith Was Not Nominated. Attacking the right of the gov- ornment to regulate through the Volstead act and asking a definite stand on it, eensuring the bigotry of the K. K. K. and at the same time warning the democrats not to over- look their own faults in their drives against the republicans, Congress- man O'Sullivan delivered the Kkey- note address before the democratic state conventfon in Hartford last night. In his talk the congressman intimated the possibility of a new liberal party and warned against it and also brought into his speech references to the national conven- tion which indicated that an error possibly svas made in not nominat- ing Governor Al Smith of New York. His speech in full: Text of Address Mr. Chairman amd Delegates’ this convention: Not only my greeting, but like- wise my gratitude Is extended for the bestowal of this extraordinary privilege. Reluctantly, yet frankly, 1 confegs a feeling of apprehension, lest one as humble in talent should succumb to the weight of my pres- ent responsibility, The difficulty for him who would strike the chord to marshal the hosts of democracy lies not in the reception of his ut- terances by those of sympathetic bent, such as you, but rather in the task of declaiming in the poverty of language whose ideals and ambi- tions over which the independent has already pondered but the ex- pressing of which hes has. left to another. With this in mind, and at the threshold, may I not say that | this address embraces my concep- tion of #he musing of others. Strictly personal in its conclusions, it purposely refrains from follow- ing that steretoyped ~endeavor of the keynoter who indulges. in a monotonous repetition of achie { ments of his pary, as though any | administration could be so dumb | that in the course of four years it could not be expected to accomplish to Jove for American—my land—to be | taught him to toddle, then has he | Volstead Act hands of each other. Pathos of It All The pathos of it all lles In the thought that the shortuess of life and the sameness of men's objec- tives cannot plead the uselessness of bigotry and the need of a tolerance that softens. Yet, like thieves In the night, come movements which sweep across the country with start- ling regularity to crystallize Indi- vidual and impotent intolerance into a formidable power. This country has observed the coming and pass- ing of many such events in the past. Today it again finds itself confromt- ed with a'new outbreak. This new move manifests itsell as antagonists to Jew, Catholic, Negro and Itallan. Perhaps its sponsors forget that it was a hugnble Genoese whose caravel, manned by Jews, Portuguese, Spaniards and Italians, laid open the wonders of this hem- {sphere. Perhaps they overlook the fact that the Negro carried a musket in the recent war and if need be was ready to dic for this land. Perhaps they have forgotten the part which Catholics have played for the greater glory of {hese United States. Perhaps they deny that the man ‘upon whose teachings rest the dogma of every Christian church was himself a Jew. Love for Amcrica. Love for America is not so selfish | as to banish all thought of the land of one's forbears. What if I, as a descendant of Irish ancestry, expe- rience a thrill of pride in the noble history of the Emerald Isle, and' what if on St. Patrick's day 1 go out into God's good sunshine with @ sprig of shamrock on my coat and | an Irish-ditty on my lips? Is my computed by the beauty of the shamrock or the lilt of the ditty? I care not what yard stick another may use, but my measure will be the golden tape of decent, comprehen- sive charity and consideration of a brother human being. As regrettable as it Is, the fact remains that the religlous issue has assumed a political aspect. If national oil lands have been trait- orously bartered away, they can be recovered. If public officials have violated their trust, they.can be prosecuted. ‘If the public treasury has been footed, its 1oss involves but inanimate property. ut if a man's ight” is denied to worship his God at the shrine to which his mother | indeed been robbed of priceless lib- some progressive legislation. However, my burden is lightened eonsiderably by your welcome, The | sight of snow-white hair-tells that some grace this assembly who were | democrats in days when the espou- sal of democracy branded men as soclal outcasts. To the purity of | thefr metal, I doff my hat. Like- wise is my confidence strengthened by the enthusiasm of the women of which their presence tonight gives evidlence, I may be pardoned for a personal rqniembrance. My love for him | compels a reference to one stalwart, golden disciple of Jefferson over whom Time, the great destroyer, has dawn the veil. The passing of that rugged personality,s beloved Tom | Reilly, leaves a gap that no one can fill, A pessimist has been likened to a blind man, groping in a dark closet, in the night tim¥ for a black hat, which isn’t thers. Usually a pes- simist is a garrulous nuisance, and fear of falling within that class | somewhat terrifies me. Yet frank- ness compels a personal ddmission of disquietude lest the Democratic |litical question. pray, tell me, what | this new phantom if they will, |the people of Indiana pay homage | {to the exaggeratéd power of an in- | erty. And if liberty be not a po- is. Let the people of Georgia woo | let | visible empire, let the Republican party in Connecticut continue its sphinx-like policy of suhservient fear of the hooded order, but let no man or woman in this grand old Commonywealth court the friendship of the ku klux klan and dare to call himself a Democrat. Fearless and outspoken, let us enter this of our Republican brethren, but Wwith heads ercct, imbued with a feeling that it s better to be right and lose, than to be wrong and win, The 18th Amendment. May 1 direct your attention to another phaso of present-day intol crance. ' My roference is to the eighteenth amendment. Prohibition is & result of an iIntolerance, which, however, has none of the charace teristics of bigotry about it, but an the eontrary possesses many attrl- butes of commendation. Well might we applaud the efforts of ‘well-mean~ ing Individuals which aim at the uplift of mankind, were the result of their endeavors and theorles not 80 antagonistic to Democratic prin- ciples and so disastrous in practice. The great mistake of the prohibi- tionist is his confounding prohibition with temperance. It is doubtful if oné can be found so unreasoning as to deny the blessings of temnperance. If by the magical power of some fairy wand, I could bestow upon the people of this country this moral of excellenge, gladly and speedily would 1 do so. For any nation espoused to its cause will rise to greater heights (than will that dedicated to the phil- osophy of the cup. However, viftue is neither bestowed nor forced on any man. It is acquired only by self-restraint and self-discipline, Void of freedom of action, what would virtue be? Not the least of |the virtues is temperance, the ob- servance of the moral law of sobri- ety. . It is strictly personal, as per- sonal in its attainment as the virtue of chastity. The enactment of legis- lation with the power of government behind it never has, and never will, make a man more robust in virtue, For if coerclon and force can create a higher standard of morality, those incarcerated in our penitentiaries will attain the highest pinnacle of righteousness, What Is I'he Law TLaw should be something more than mere legislation. It should be the expression of a well-accepted custom, if not of time honored mem- ory, at ledst of universal acknowl- edgment. Otherwise it will be tainted with artific.ality. Create any artificial offense and place it in the same category as horse stealing and man will regard the law as a sham, |worthy of no respect or observance, or else he assumes the converse to be true, that horse stealing is no worse than the artificial offense, and his actions against both laws are governed accordingly. Can human eye see or prophetic mind foretell the end of the regulation origin_is found in the Eightcenth Amendment? Already comes word that the self-appointed custodians of American mode of living, enthu- siastic over their successes in ef- feeting prohibition, are marshaling their forces against tobacco. When the twenty-first amendment is ratificd to prohibit the transpor- tation, sale or use of tobacco, in what direction shall our keepers then turn? Shall the twenty-second amendment forbid the eating of corned heef and cabbage? The Lord forbid, for life without them would indeed be dismal. Yet it is just as logical for those who have endeave ored to attune me to their standard by the Volstead Act to do likewise in any other manner their passing and whimsical fancy might decree. battle, not in the eringing attitude | Questions Govt, Rights Our people have never acknowl- whose | |dgrmine the moral fibre of our pe {¥rom the very heginning, the policy NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924, edged, by cugtom or otherwise the |through the medium of two nfajor right of the government to regulate [partics, one conservative in its pro- the |grém the other liberal, right, by some inconcelvable mothod [unfortunate if it were otherwlse, for of Invading their thoughts, to sect|cach serves as a counter weight to thelr morals any more than boundaries within which thelr con- sclgnce might be frees Nor does a government ordinarlly pursue such a policy, It is only when fanaticism, in elther a mild or virulent form, reigning power that the assumption of control over the morals of the people is manifested, And this fap- qticlsm usually arises from those with high ideals and lofty aims, as is the case with the sincere prohibi- tlonists. Yet everywhere and always faflure follows infallibly in the wake of ' such tactics. , The pages of his- tory team with instances where the force of law and the might of gov- ernment have been applied, not to make men bad but to make them good, To crush Christianity, to make its disciples virtuous in the light. of pagan religion, every pow- er of the Roman Empire was em- and grew. The torture of the Inqui- sition, with its spike, rack, and thumb-serew, falled in its object, and the dissenters increased in num- bers. With all the might of gow- ernmental forces, tnere never - has been an instance where it has con- trolled a single human passion, Obviously there is but one meth- od by which any people may mani- fest their disapproval of a morals- regulating statute. That method is to continue the action sought to be eliminated and controlled. In.other words, it is a disrespect for and a violation of the law, That the pro. hibition law attempts to regulate the morals of the people is not open to question, If our premises are cor- rect, therefore, that morals cannot be regulated by law, and if our peo- ple possess those same human quali- ties that every human being up to this good hour has always possessed, then we might expect an universal antipathy toward the law and & constant violation of it. Such, in- deed, are the facts, takes its hold on the mind of the*| Yet in this very campaign, demo- no man of 1912, roots are ployed, Yet Christianity flourished [sive legisiation, ought to retain thg |into the [tion. Al Smith, TImmediately upon the adoption of the Eighteen Amendment, the pro- | hibitionists proclaimed thdt a new, era was about to fall upon the, United States, and never were truer | words spoken, Never hefore has |there been such an orgy of law vio- |1ations, never such a disrespect for constituted authority, as their pro- hibitory ideas have brought about. T am more interésted in the pre- servation of the remaining shreds of {freedom than I am in prohibition The machinery of government hand- ed down by the fathers has greater significance than fantical and fan- tastical fallacies to make mankind sober by law. To continus this; present policy is to continue to un- ple. To shout "Law and Orde does not bestow a divinely appoint- ed monopoly of patriotism upon the promibitionists. In 1776, the Torles were uttering similar cries. An (intelligent modification of the terms of the Volstead Act to permit again the use of wholesome brew and beverage will elilminate much of the open and clandestine violation of law with which everyone is all too famillar. Whatever may be the | well-developed spirit of prevatent throughout the cause, a unrest s country. of government has been developed party retreat from the vantage ground of liberalism upon which its banners have always been planted. | Of what avail are the honeyed wonds of our sages, if our actjons belie them? Of what value are the wonderful achievements of Democ- racy's history, if we, her sons and daughters, live, not in anticipation of the future, but solely in the mem- ory of the past? On the hide of the Elephant, there may be great, big, dripping spots of ocozing oil, and disgusting sores, which cannot be cured even by the admitted per- sonal integrity of President Cool- : idge, the pictorial fagmer candidate, or screened behind "mountains of smoke that alternately are emitted, first from the famous pipe and thén from the red-hot language of the gentleman of profane fame. Yet in the natural desire to indulge in | criticism of others, it ill behooves Democracy to neglect the condition of her own house. If blots there be upon her escutcheon, to remove them, is the part of wisdom and courage. It I sound the tocsin of party campaign, I sound it as an alarm for the -defense and preservation of | the political philosophy of our foinder. Not the least in impor- tance of his axioms of wisdom upon which was successively constructed | the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this govern- ment was that of equality and free- | dom. What magnificent words with which to conjure! What castles cannot man bulld’ when his thoughts, his actions and his speech are free. To give man this free- | dom, the blood of American colo- | nists was shed in generous meas- | ure; to preserve itna new type of government was established; to sus- tain it, a lamentable civil war was | § waged for four weary vears. Were | the ringing words of Wilson a mock- | ery that equality and freedom must be made safe for the world? Does | equality imply an assumption of ob- ligations, even to that last full | measure of devotion, but limited participatien in constitutfonal rights, and is freedom circumscribed by the shackles of Intolerance? No, my friends, a nation Is great, not as it is powerfui but as it is free. The Magna Charta, the Des laration of Independence, the Eman- cipation. Proclamation advanced mankind farther than all the glories of Caesars and Czars. Bigotry always has existed and, T alwava will. It is not one- #1ded. Wistory recounts Innumer- able instances _of . parsegution of Catbolic. Protesiagt.and Jew.at.fhe tear OF The Porter & Dyson Co. “Old Reliable Jewelers” Closing Out Sale 54 Main Street Silver Plated Made By NOW IN PROGRESS Ware Gorham — R. Wallace — 1847 Rogers — Universal A few choice pieces of Silver Plated Hollow Ware are being offered during remainder of sale. Take advan- tage of this opportunity to buy that wedding gift. The Porter & Dyson Co. “Old Reliable Jewelers” New Britain the new movement, 80 blind as they who will not see. It is not a repetition of the great schism by the magnotism of Roosevelt. Its are watered by distrust.” democracy's position is assailed by | Perhaps it was a tremendous mis- take to have injected the great issue Sur |colossal a blunder was the solution, dard bearer the great democrat of | the Empire no blunder as she hands her banner be hartered away to the lawyer of ability, the gentle- Where lies man by instinct, the statesman by |for Daughert training, the progressive by pature, It would be underrate the strength of There are none remember Daugherty, Fall, when man were attracted across the stage huried much deeper and Just why | s which a for the ¢ ed soldiers { half as biack sel aside recent New York conven- cly, no one can doubt how State, the one and only | But democracy has made | lands to slip t nitary? His co A Victor Record by the Prince of Wales . in which he talks on “Sportsmanship” is the latest addition to the library of Victor Records by personages of world prominence. our own John W. Davis, On the other hand, it is simplicity itsell to account ‘for the distrust of Denby Wherever the place, whoever the spokesman, and whatever subject may be, the ghosts of the Three Musketeers will coms Cannot Wipe Out Stain Even the persocal integrity of the present leader cannot cfface the rec- those of a liberal turn of mind fs [ord of graft and corruption sprinkled difficult of explanation, through the last four years. Respon- Surely, a party whose record has | «ibility mifst rest with his party. Leen a continual stream of progres- | Wheye else can it rest? Where lics the Tesponsibility for the actions of | £00d will and gratitude of the peo- | Forbes? As the director of the Vet- ple she has served. Not that [erans' Bur appointed to that democracy is perfect. Innumerable | position by republican president, | times h: she blundered. ¥or fhe squandered through waste and | democracy enrolls men, mnot gods. | aft, two hundred millions of dol- generous nation had re of its wound- There is no crime one- as that which fastens {itselt v pon this Ligh repu n offi- |it we dignity it as a sqlution. Per- | cialiwhose conemptible desire to re- haps much of the unrest of Connec- |pienish his purse took aid and com- ticut's men and women may find its [fort from the crippled soldier, the {source in the failure of that very [nobleman of our recent army. Where {convention to mominate as its stan- | lizs the respensibility for the pro- gram of Denby, the secretary of the navy, who 1ermitted government oil rough his fingers to to private Inter- the responsibility another cabinet dig- pection with the sale of pardons and liquor permits, the man “with shoulders broad to- cnough to hold a heart, and s | gether with his general all-round il- wide enough apart to hold a brain,” | legal activities, marked his passage and of Calvin Cooll of God, existence the stalking Records perpetuate these character studies for all time. . Victrola No. 50 (Peitable) $50 Mahogany or oak Victrola No. 80 $100 Mahogany, oak or walnut Victrola Ne. 2 $150 There is but one Victrola and thatis made by the Victor Company —look for these Victor trade marks. 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Rank- been the liberal party, 1t there be |prosperity is here on a personal visit, [ing in rankness next to Forbes is any justification at all for her con- [that pockets are bulging with money | the action of this man whose hands tinued existence, it lies in the hope |that the ‘smoke from factory chim-|must reek to heaven with the odor that she still is the liberal party. |neys never looked brighter—and the |of the bribe, for which he sold his people will remember Daugherty, | soul oracy's position as leader of pro- (Denby and Iall. The republican or-| Little wonder republicans refuse gressive thought fs challenged, A |ator will declaim that Burope loves (o explaln where explanations serve spirit of unrest 1 prevalent, I ve- |us intensely, that we are at peace fonly to make the mire de Tam| peat, throughout the country. 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