The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-27

disruption and the Nation threatened with dismemberment she came to the
 rescue of America by putting her navy
 at the service of Lincoln to oppose the advancing fleet of the European allies of the South. Russia now lays stress on our late Interference In the Japanese Russian war against Russia to serve English demands while now allying ourselves with Europe to take from Russia the territory she Has been preparing to regain at the sAr- Hest moment of power-though lost to Japan in the conflict of arms, Russia has joined Japan in treaty against America as a preparation of assault on the Republican party's foreign pol
 icy. Trade which might have been
 obtained by peace and by competi-
 tion of our goods and the superiority
 of our methods aided by the good will
 of our people, now is denied in defiance
 and withdrawn in hatred of our na-
 tion. All this with loss to our treas
 ury and humiliation to our country.
 This is the penalty for the RepubIi-
 can administration betraying and then
 destroying the Democratic bulwarks
 that so long have been the guardian
 and security to America from assault from without and destruction from
 within.
 If America shall yield to the de-
 mands of China and Japan and permit
 the unrestricted hordes of Asia to
 swarm in millions upon the United
 States, it must result in over-running
 our workshops and factories with serf labor, breaking down the standards or
 American workmen, the dehling of our
 domestic hearthstones, and the demol- ishing of the institution of the Amerf-
 can Republic. This can never be- Democracy facing this crisis still cries
 out to the American toiler her assur- ing slogan, American for the Ameri- cans-Asia for the Asiaticsy' If America to be true to her established creeds shall now resist these demands or Asia, to the end that America may be faithful to the guardiansnips of the laborer, and to the children of the fu- ture: Asia must retaliate upon us for what she deems, our invasion upon her on her own soil and the dishonor and discriminating insult npon her people upon our soil.
 s If we shall be prepared to meet this resentment and defiance, we must con- vert the Nation from one governed "by the consent of the governed" to A government by the direction of the Rulers; We then submit to a transfor- nation from a government aSrayed in robes of peace smiling welcome to the world, to nation sheathed in the brist1ing armor of war defyfng the earth. America must now have navy equal to the combined navies or France, England and Germany if we are to defend the assaults of aroused Asia and their European allies. With this must be established as an auxil- iary an army equal in numbers to the present. standing army of the four great governments of Europe that ve may be prepared to repel or evade the millions, Japanese and Chinese forti- fled with the aid of Russia. To pre- serve from a war of worlds ending in the sacrifice of millions of our sons air millions upon millions Of money wrung by war taxes from the laborer, the farmer and the merchant; we will be called upon to abandon the Philip pines to the seizure of the Oriental enemies who design to seize them as we took Cuba against Spain; and will then defy us to recover them Or to hold them and prevail by force in Asia we must march to the undoins of the Republic. For as in success as success must be-whatever our conflicts; for Democrats do not hesi- tate to die to save their country from dishonor that Republican administra- tion would put upon it-stfll the suc- cess in the conflict must result in our nation no longer being a Republic of peace and security to the citizen but one of military burden on the backs of the men and bleeding agony on the hearts of the mothers. Or if the for tunes which have befa1len others who dared the decrees of fate shall be ours and we fail we then present to the world the spectacle of the humiliation of our people and the dishonor of our country All this in either event as the inheritance of the mad and unre- publican policies of political admin istration that is willing to shame ths names of Washington and Jefferson in the deliberate destruction of Dem- ocratic ideals that they may serve the demands of the wreckers of Re- publics while they establish kings of
 financial favor to reign where once sat Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
 To-day, with Democracy once again pledging the nation it's fidelity and watchful care; let us be hopeful for the tomorrow, and trust the wisdom !. of the, peolle!