New Britain herald., 1916-11-01

draw the kn1Ic that they SIdUUSu you with three years ago.
 "The democratic. platform just out ol the oven endorses the Underwood Act which repudiates protection. Mr. | Underwood says that the tariff com mission is useless except for political purposes. He says the Underwood rates will not be changed. Speaker Clark says a tariff commission Is idiotic. MT. Kitchin. leader of the House, and MT. Simmons. leader of the senate all from the southern free trade belt. have not changed their views a particle.
 Dancing With the Stars. ! The men who are in the intuition factories or making war supplies of any kind, above all other,N should be- ware of Democratic tariff legislation. l These men are up in a balloon Just now and having glorious time, i Dancing with the pretty stars, sail | ing around the moOn." But the gas in the balloon is war gas and the in- stant the cannons stop roaring the l balloon will stop soaring, and the men i in it will walk homeland the man | who goes up in a balloon and walks 1 back generally regrets his experience.
 The anti i-dumping clause in the ! Dem ocratic scheme will prove utterly useless and impractical. It will sim i ply serve to shave the corpse and wash 1 his face and get him ready for his coffin.
 The AdamSOn Act
 The next vital issue In this cam paign is that raised by the AdamsOn Act For two thousand years civili- zation has fought for the liberty of the individual and against human slavery. For two thousand years in telligent men have battled for the in- alienable right of contract and the sanctity of the obligation of contracts. I can remember my friends, when the republican party and loyal democrats in the north fought a long and des- perate war against the democrats in the south, and the issue then was very close to the issue raised in the Adam son bill There is no difference in principle between a law which said to A., You shall pay B. much for his labor and no less," and one which says to A., You need pay B. so much for his labor and no more.' When the Adamson bill was passed, Con- gress, for the first time in the history of this republic, deprived free and sovereign white men of the right to bargain with each other collectively or singly.
 Preparedness.
 We have kept out of the war in Flu rope just as easily as we have avoided falling into the big dipper or drowning in the milky way. Under our consti- tuition congress has the power to de- clar war, and there has never been time when Mr. Wilson could have secured a vote of twenty per cent of either branch of congress to declare war on anyone of the warning powers, and every congressman in the United States will substantiate this statement. If MT. Wilson had gone to war with Europe or any part of it he would have gone alone.
 We have kept out of the war be- cause of our existing treaties with the warning powers and because of our long and historic advocacy of the sub stitution of arbitration for force in the settlement of international disputes. We could not get into the war be- cause we could not hOnorably refuse to arbitrate any controversy arising from the submarine Warfaro or the seizure Of neutral goods if apology and reparation were offered or arbi-
  nation
 Again, the allied powers, always in- formed of the social racial and politi- cal conditions in this country, have known from the start that it would be utterly impossible for us to come to their assistance. The central powers have known from the start that we could not come to their assistance, and both sides have known that should either side openly attack us it would mean ultimate victory for the other side If it has been impossible for us to help either side how could we get into war. Both sides have known that because the United States has taken diametrically different positions on the submarine question--different at times and unintelligib1e at times that the mere disclaimer of responsi- bility for any offensive act and the of fer to arbitrate facts must be accepted by the President
 Since MT. Wilson's last note on the submarine question a great many un armed ships have been torpedoed without warning. I distinctly re- member three-the Moravia, the Rita, and the Iatimbra-all unarmed, sunk without warning, and hundreds of n-combatants drowned. If there had happened to have been an Ameri- can on board MT. Wilson would have written another note.
 History of Democracy.
 In 1928 when the dem mocratic party was born, it's three basic tenets were Notification of the right of any state to secede from the Union, free trade, and negro slavery sanctioned by the constitution and Bible For thirty years or more the federal party, which was afterward merged into the republican party was unable to stay r-it of c1 nd Ia