Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-14

of prosperity. They feel that the mental attitude of the interstate com merce commission is hostile to our great transportation interests, which are so fundamentally necessary to the well-being of the country. They feel that the new banking and currency system, absolutely under the control of another government commission at Washington, is an experiment, although they hope for the best. They believe that the government already master of the development of the railroad map of the country and the diceator of the transportation interests, owned by private capital-also controlling all the finances of the country through its federal reserve board, and now reaching out through its federal trade commission to bring under it's juris- diction and order all the private inter- state commerce of the country wheth- CT conducted by corporations or in- dividuals-has become the critic and adversary of the business interests of the country Their fears are not all layed by the fact that there sits at the head of the presidents cabinet hold ing the portfolio of our foreign rela- tions, man by. reason of whose here sies and radicalism the democratic party went three times down to defeat.
 The republican party has always stood like rock for a protective tar if to American industries. thus secur- ing the American scale of wages for American workmen. It has also al- ways stood, and stands today, for a sound and stable currency, every dol lar Of which. as was said by gallant Joe Hawley. must be as sacred as soldiers grave.
 Consular Service Looted.
 South America beckons us today. The opportunity of centuries lies open. but our consular service in South America has been footed by the ap- pointment of worn-out political hacks, who are ignorant even of the lan- guage spoken in the countries to which they are accredited. The ac- complished officials who occupied these places had become fitted by experi- ence and association with the lan- guage, the people and the institutions of the country in which they had so- journed, and could have been, if they had been retained at their posts of in- calcuIable benefit to the country in grasping the opportunity which pre- sents itself. Not only our consular service, but the whole spirit of civil service reform has been ruthlessly vio- lated for the purpose of making pure ly partisan appointments.
 A Look Around.
 We are only three generations dis tant from our birth as a nation. Can any SUCH pIOSICoS dS we nave dCHleNSu during that period be elsewhere in stanced? Today we are a nation of 1OO, 100000 people, the richest and most powerful on the globe.
 What shall we do with that nation and what shall it become? What shall | our form of government be? We have been for some years, and still are, passing through a period when men appear to be re-examining the founda- tions' of their beliefs. Do we wish to | change our form of government? Have
 other nations made such a success of | their forms of government that we | wish to adopt the plan of any other | country? The most learned statesmen of other countries have pronounced | our form of government to be the most perfect form of republican democracy | that could be devised by the will of man.
 | The republican party believes the | constitution of our country and in the maintenance of law and order. Ie be- lieves in systematic, regular orderly | progress. It does not believe that it
 is necessary. and it believes that fact