New Britain herald., 1916-10-21

| my analysis of Thursday evenings republican rally, the affair which took place at the Lyceum and which was directly responsible for many New Britain voters turning to Will son. That the republican party is hopelessly stripped of anything re- sembnng 8 constructive issue vas proven to me beyond a doubt by the empty statements of the first speaker of Thursday nights wake; that re- publican conceptions of construction are In the channels of destruction were made manifest in the following remarks of J. Calvin Brown, a British subject who, on account of his self confessed prosperity in this country moved to a confessedlY poverty stricken city in Fngland-Manches ter.
 Fellow Americans" and he hasn't 8 vote, "I am not politician, but business man, interested in the wei fare of America Then in the next few moments he confesses to be well informed on politics both in this country and in Europe, and admits that he was an interested party in campaign down ill Arkansas in the eighties "In coming to you here to- night it has cost me $3,000, and for which I am not being compensated" In his next few remarks of intelli- gence, he expresses his personal dis like of the president, And why? Be cause he, as a genuine hyphenate sits in his British club, surrounded by nu
 merous fops, and 1t tawmented by
 thelr really silly nOnsensical insulting remarks about the United States. ! hi f
 he were the man he tries to be, he
 would defend the flag which made it
 possible for him to be a free man;
 the country which inculcated into his
 limited faculties for realizing the lines
 Of least resistance an unconscious feel1ng of solicitude for those who l suffer. But, he Is not satisfied with l the pay his workers demand down in 1 Arkansas ($1.25) but, he desires to l go to Manchester, where they wear TO 1 stockings; where the children know no need for underclothing, and where l the pay asked for labor is $4.50 per
 week. This is the type of man who | dares to come to New Britain; a city
 where the wages some time not far | distant were almost as low as those now being paid in Manchester and
 try to impress upon the minds of Workingmen that, if MT. Hughes Is 1 elected, the country, especially the
 workingman fthis country are to l be assured work I believe that they will be assured work if he is elected l but it will be at the old scale of 1 wages. Therefore, let us look on the | extreme of conditions should tHnre
 be not as much work as there is now. l And we shall observe that we will
 have to work but one-half as long as
 we used to under the sixteen years of 1 republication in order to have earned 1 as much per week. Regretting my
 inability to realize the Fundamental
 economic principles involved but l MT. Calvin Brown does-I want to 1 impress this upon the minds of these
 who might read this. The first speak CT said that the president could not | help keeping us out of war. Had the president gone about with a chip on his shoulder anG in a bellirerent attitude, he could not have found any one in the world to fight with'' The second gentleman: Tt was impossi- ble for us to go to war, as our navy and our army were demoralized. We went into Mexico afted Rancho Villa, mungrel (mungler) and we were sent home whipped. My dear friends It was impossible for us to go to war due to our weakness"
 Thus you will observe that the | first speakers says the nations were afraid of us and the second speaker said we were afraid of them. The 1 first speaker says he is not a politi- cian,| yet he confessed to having par ticipated in a campaign down i'll Ar kansas; to have been interviewed by the leaders of the British parliament in order that they may secure data on tariff Summing up both the speak CTS as speakers who, coming as they are supposed to, with message of truths, they come to us as bearers of false messages, sfallacies of the most pernicious kind' and which refute themselves while not yet dissipated in the atmosphere wherein they are ut tered.
 A WILSON CONVENT.