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The Washington times., 1916-06-14
Arguments of Ifs
BY Opponents

Against this actual condition our op-
ponents raise an argument Of IFS
With greater truth we can also enter
the realm of conjecture and declare
that II another candidate had been elect
ed four years ago. the United States
would be at war today. A ton OF IFS
do not weigh as much as a single fact.
Our opponents forget that IF the night
of the seagulls of the coast of the West
Indies had not directed his course. Co
lumbus would not have discovered
America when he did. But the sea-
, them-and Columbus found our land"
Chairman Glynn concluded with praise
for President Wilson. who, he said. has
measured up to the best traditions of a
great office.
HE has been wise with a wisdom
that is STEPPED In the traditions Of his
country. with a wisdom that has been
disciplined by training and broadened
by instruction.
"He has been firm with the hrmness
that proceeds from deep conviction.
with the firrnness that IL grounded In
a duty well defined.
| He has been patient with the pa
thence which believes and trusts that
truth crushed to earth will rise again,
with the patience that can endure and
wait, watch. and pray. for the certain
vindication Of Justice. humanity. and
right.
HE has been patriotic with a patri-
otism that has never wavered. a patri-
/ otsm that Is as pure and strong as the
| faith that moved the fathers when they
made our country free.
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Cor. Glynn Sounds Keynote
OF Democratic Campaign

at bay; thus far II has saved Its people
from participation in the conflict.
What the people OF the United
States must determine through their
suffrage. Is whether the course the
country has pursued through this
crucial period Is TO be continued;
whether the principles that have been
asserted as our national policy shall
be indorsed or withdrawn.
This Is the paramount issue. No
lesser Issue must cloud II, no unrelated
problems must confuse It."
In declaring that the policy Of neu-
trality Is, as American as the Ameri-
can flag, Mr.. Glynn asserted that:
THE first President OF the United
States was the first man to pronounce
neutrality rule Of international con-
duct. .......-
'1ni April. 1913, Washington declared
the doctrine; and within a month, John
jay. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, in an epoch-mak-
ing decision from the bench whose real
ization would ensure universal and per-
petual peace, wrote the principle Into
the law of this land. The Declaration
Of Independence had foretold II by de-
c1aring the rest OF mankind enemies In
war. In peace friends;' the Constitution
recognized II; but the first President OF
the United States by proclamation, the
first Chief Juotice by interpreta ton
gave II vitality and power.
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Americanism, Peace, Prepared.
ness. and Prosperity Out
lined as Issues.
DEFENDS WILSON'S POLICIES
President Handled Most Difficult
Problems With Profound
Craftsmanship, He Declares.

st. LOUIS. June l.-With the asser-
ton that no President since the civil
war has had as crucial problems 10
solve: and no President has displayed
a grasp more sure, statesmanshlp
more profound. ms President Wilson.
Hon. Martin u. Glynn. former gov
ernor of New York. opened tho Demo-
cratic national convention hnre To-Day
Declaring that 'Americanism snd
peace. preparedness and prospS Ar,cS
party stands, and the heart OF Democ-
incy awells with pride that Is more
than a pride of party, a. IL nails Inc
man. who has asserted this American
ism, assured this peace, advocated this
perity." he predicted the reelection OF
President Wilson.
Taking up our foreign relations that
has been called into emphatic promi-
hence by the worldwide war the
speaker declared that I'VE have en-.
tered this hall as Democrats; We aha hal
policy of neutrality. he argued. Is a,
truly American as the American nag.
For two hundre ed years neutrality was
a theory: America made II fact.
"It took Washington and his success
ors eighty years of endless neGotintion
to win recognition of American neu-
gle wove the doctrine of neutrality Sc
cloeely into the warp and woof OF our
national life that to tear II out now
would unravel the very threads OF our
existence" BY the records OF history
Mr.. Glynn maintained that 4 Washing.
Wilson is right The neutrality that
President Wilson stands for today was
advocated by Washington, by Hamil-
ton. by Jefferson. and by Lincoln.
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Must Enable All to
Assert Americanism

I'VE must enable every real Ameri-
can to stand up and assert his
Americanism. We must make the is
sue SO clear that every ballot box in
the land may become a monument to
the loyalty of American manhood.
THE citizens of this country must
stand behind their President because
his policies are right. They will stand
behind him because his policies are
the policies which have brought the
honored peace. They will stand be-
hind him because they want these
policies contained. that prosperity
prolonged. that peace assured"
made four years ago that Democratic
administration would liberate the ma
ton from the chains OF industrial ty-
ranny has been carried out. He euio-
ciared that the scholar-statesman.
whose rod has struck the golden rock
Of Americas resources, to set free the
wealth imprisoned for half century.
dustries from the wilderness Of doubt
and despair to the Promised Land OF
Prosperity and Hope"
The laws restraining big business from
stifiing competition. the trades commis-
sion act, the movement to foster ex-
pansion of American trade. the close
union of economic. commercial. and
financial interests between the United
States. and the nations of South America
are shown to be legislation OF the
widest benefit. The Underwood tariff
Mr.. Glynn characterized as the faires'
and the best of all we have enacted
Under the present Administration this
United States has enjoyed wonderful
era OF good business and good times.
The American's ideals and his asp''
rations served as the basis for the
speakers opening discbssion.
1--WE who stand today on the fertile
soil of America, who live under the
smiling skies of n free and fruitful
land, must prove worthy of the trus
that American sacrifice has imposed OF
every American.
"Disregarding the divisions that MAKE
one man Tory and another Whig
one man a Republican and another {
Democrat. Americans will cast aside tn
tinsel OF party labels and the hummer!
OF party emblems.
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Finds Basis
In History

The issue raised by Democracy's OPP
ponents Of the vlgor with which our
neutrality has been enforced Is dealt
with by the records Of history:
when Grant was President, during
the war between Spain and the Spanish
West Indies, a Spanish gunboat seized
the vessel Virginus flying the American
flag, and a Spanish commandant In cold
blood shot the captain OF the Virginus:
thlrty-six of the crew, and sixteen OF
the passengers.
But we didn't go to war. Grant set,
as the President Of tho United states
is trying to do today.
'When Harrison was. President TIE
people Of Chill conceived n violent dis
like to the United states for our In
sistonce upon neutrality during the
| Gillian revolution. When this feeling
was at its height one junior officer
| from the United States warship Balti-
more was killed outright In the streets
| OF Valparaiso and sixteen of our sail
ors wounded, of whom one afterwards
died,
lust as the President OF the United
| States Is trying to do TODAY
when Lincoln was President this
cOuntry's rights we're violated on every
| side. England. Russia. France. and
Spain we're guilty Of such fiagraEt vio-
| lations that Secretary OF State Seward
advanced a plan TO 60 to war with all
| OF them at ono and the same time.
! settled our troubles by negotiation lust
as the President Is trying to do today.
| "Whon Pierce was President the
British minister IN this country and
three Of his counsel violated our nell
| trality during the Crimean war. We
enve these representatives OF Great
Britain their passports and sent them
home
"Rut We didn't go To war. Pierce
settled our troubles nv negotiation lust
ms the President NJ the United states
| IL trying II do today
When Van Buren was President q
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Declares President .,.s
Stands With John Adams

1.-THE President o: the United States
stands today where stood the men
who made America and who saved
America. He stands where John
Adams stood. when he told King
George that America WAS, the land he
loved and that peace was her
grandeur and her welfare. He stands
where General Grant stood when he
said there never was a war that could
not have been settled better some other
way. and he has shown his Willingness
to try the ways OF peace before he
seeks the paths of war. He stands
where George Washington stood when
he prayed that this country would
never unsheath the sword except In
self-defense SO long as Justice and our
essential rights could be preserved
without II. .....
FOR vain glory or for selfish pur.
pose. others may cry up a policy OF
blood and iron. but the President OF
the United States has acted on the
belief that the leader OF nation who
plunges his people into an unnecessary
war. like Pontius PLATE vainly washes
his hands OF innocent blood while the
earth uuakes and the heavens are
darkened and thousands give up the
ghost"
Speaking of the opposition to tn,
Presidents peace policy. the speaker
continued:
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rupted by the world war, and there
were left in New York the largest bank
deposits IN It's history ,yr.L,
.If this DemScre,,c Ad ,in,I rvson
than the enactment OF the Federal re.
serve act II would deserve .the--un-
stinted approval OF n gratefuF nation.
Thanks 70 Democracy and to Democ.
may maS now wSrE 9St n Rs si Sss2isS 3kSoSt
living In terror OF panics and hard
. tim &. The tGIe n sssSgy % 'sst
his employers business IL safe from as
sault. The farmer who must borrow
to move his crops may do 30 without
spending his days In anxiety, his nights
IN nightmares OF FORECLOSURES and dis
THE Underwood tariff" declared the
speaker, enacted by the Administra-
tion has banished greed from the gates
Of our ports and written justice into
this is the fairest and the best. *
Makes Reference To- a4'~u'
u. s. Industries j''' ~ -"
In the discussion OF prosperity Mr.
Glynn made particular reference to
our Industrial condition.
To-day prosperity shines from blaz.
ing furnaces and glowing forFes. II
echoes from busy docks and from
thronged emporiums Of trade, ~
the chant Of the spindle ana Of loom
lifting the mortgage from the poo
mans home and promising ., his chill
dren future that seemed impossible
/ before. ...---......s. ,...
nSr,nEk has The rs SYs steady .n nt
continuous Improvement in business
Wealth has increased 81 per cent. tn.
value of manufactured products 81
sr psf n e.n ssp ana exports 1ss sn per cent
The flood-tide Of our prosperity hai
risen to such an unprecedented heigh
that the only limit to trade is oul
abroad. Our fields and our factories
cry aloud for men and Unemployment
has ceased to be a problem Wages
have have rssSmss real Su ess ss aseo2
cred its worth. '''.
There Is not an idle car on ou
railroads or an idle ship at our docks
For the irst time In history. America
greatest port has become the world
THE purchasing power of our peo
pie 10 greater than that OF any othe
people on the globe. Never was ,ther,
day. The aggregate resources Of ou
national banks are three hundred mil
lions more than the aggregate re
sources of the Bank Of England. tn,
Bank of France. the Bank 6f Russia
the Reichbank OF Germany, the Banl
Of the Netherlands, the Swiss Nation
al bank. and the Bank of Japan. w
have four hundred and one millions o
money more than we had a year an,
half ago and our gold supply, ex
ceeds by many hundreds Of million
the gold supply of any other nation oil
earth.
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Lusitania Course
Justified BY Precedent

BY citing presidents Mr.. Giynn JUS
titled and defended the course of
the President in the Lusitania and
similar incidents. I'm the face of this
record" he asked: DO Republicans
realize that when they arraign the
policy of the President of the United
States today they arraign the policy
of Harrison, of Blaine. of Lincoln, and
of Grant? Foe the pleasure of critics.
ing a Democratic President, are they
willing to read out of the Republican
party the greatest men the Republ-
lican party ever had? Are they will
ing to say that the Republican party
Of today condemns what Hamilton
did in Revolutionary days. what Lin
coin did in civil war days and what
Grant and Blaine and Harrison did
"In his policy OF peaceful negotia-
lions today the President of the Uni
ted states follows the example set
him by the greatest Presidents
which the Democratic party and the
greatest Presidents the Republican
party ever gave this nation"
Mr.. Glynn Impressed on his hearers
that It was the business of this con-
vention representing every section
of the United States, speaking for
every racial strain in America, to
send forth a message TO all the world
that will leave no room for doubt.
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Warrington Also
Averted War

But we didn't 20 TO war. Washing
ton settled our troubles by negotiation
Just as the President OF the United
States. Is trying to do today"
In concluding this issue, Mr.. Giynn
asks:
do the critics OF the present Admin
istration believe that Lincoln should
have risked national disaster by using
the sword rather than the pen In press
Ing the Alabama claims? Are they will
Ing to brand Grant as n coward because
he kept us at peace with Spain7'
In answer to those who say that
President Wilson's policy does not salts
~ anyone Mr.. Glynn rep1ies:"He means
that IL does not satisfy those who would
map out new and untried course for
this nation to pursue, but they forget
II does satisfy those who believe the
United States should live up to the prin-
cipies II has ptofessed for a century
Chief. Justice White. OF the United
States Supreme Court. says this policy
has given America the greatest diplo
matte victory OF the past generation.
Macmillan Harden, Germans noted
editor. says that never once has this
republic violated its neutrality and
Gilbert X. Chcsterton, the famous Eng
lish journalist, says, It IL the duty of
the President of the. United States
to protect the interests OF the people
OF the United States, that he can't
dip his country into hell just to show
the world he has a keen sense OF being
an individual saviour"
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detachment of Canadian militia, dur
ing the interna! trcybles in Canada.
boarded the United States shir. Caro-
linz In the American H,c ws,S,s o. Mlsgas 9,
the crew, fred the shin and feat her
adrlft over Niagara Falls.
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Troubles Settled
By Negotiation

"But we didn't go TO war. Van Buren
settled our troubles by negotiation just
as the President OF the United States
IL trying to do today.
when Jefferson was President Eng.
land seized hundreds Of our ships and
Napoleon hundreds more.
when Adams was President France
preyed upon our commerce. She extend.
ed her seizure, searches and confscs.
lions ito the very waters Of the United
States themselves until she had piled
up In our State Department charges oil
over $500 violations OF neutrality's law
But we didn't 20 to war. Adam,
settled our troubles by negotiation jus
as the President Of the United States II
trying to do today.
when Washington was President and
neutrality first declared, war convulset
Europe, our ships dared not to put out
to sea, commerce was paralyzed anc
business depressed. American passen
gers and American crews were Thrown
into prison and deprived Of legal rights
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follow. Former times II a retail drv-
goods concern didn't got half their
saiesladies faint en- 'em every night
for two weeks before Christmas. their
creditors would come down on them
and ask them to discount their bills.
Nowadays II cash girl gets a head
ache. that's tig already"
Birsky nodded sadly.
christmas Is dying out" he de-
ciared. "The people is getting too
wise. Zapp. IL used 10 BE that IL you
wanted to push your stickers,-wheth-
or IL was handkerchiefs. socks, neck
ties. oder gloves. all you had to do
was To wait till the first Of December.
mark 'em up so per cent over the regu-
lar retail price for fresh goods, put
'em In red paper boxes. y'uaderstand,
and your customers practically used
biack1acks on each other 10 get at the
counter where the goods was dis
played. Christmas silver articles was
also good sales. 1 seen butter dishes
go like hot cakes. which the salesladies
was warned not TO dust them or NIT |
feathers even. on account IL might /
scratch the silver plate ana show the /
brass underneath But that's n thing
Or the past now. And who done IL.
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lea is decorating graves on the thir-
tieth of May"
"Still, in way, it's a good thing that
christmas Is more or less a thing of
the past" Zapp said. because when
you tried to collect a bill from some
body around Christmas time, it didn't
make no difference il he was retired
from business except for a 10 per cent
interest in a bathing suit factory, he
would want you TO wait till his Christ
mas rush was over. Also people didn't
give no orders because IL was around
Christmas, Birsky. and just because IL
was near Christmas and they claimed
they could use all the money they
could get, your creditors wanted you to
pay bills which you hardly knew you
owed on account of not receiving the
second monthly statement yet. Fur
thermore II you owned a tenement
house. you'd got difficulty collecting
tie November rent because the ten
ants said Ii was 50 near Christmas, and
that's the way IL went, Birsky. People
treated Christmas not as a holiday, but
as an excuse. The woader is IL amt
died out altogether"
TIE wholesaler wouldn't miss IL If
Ii did" Birsky commented. Believe
me. Zapp, for every child that lays
awake the night before Christmas |
thinking what his parents are going |
&c hand him the next morning. there Is |
fifty manufacturers counting sheep |
JumPing over fences. trying lot to
think what some Of their customers in
the retail crygoOGs trade is going to
hand them after the second Of Janu-
ary. IL don't require much water to
brown a shaky drygOOds retailer. He
AN sink like stone in two days rain
Turing TIE week before Christmas"
Don't / know It'll" Zapp said. IF
he Christmas presents that the whole
alers give by mistake 10 shaky retail
Irygoods men was put on trees the
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zapp7 II was the Teller that invented
the saying: DO your Christmas shop
Pig early"
"who did invent it," Zapp asked.
81 should know who invented TIT
Birsky exclaimed. "But whoever he
was. Zapp. he Put a bigger crirnp In
the cheap handkerchief business than
the Teller who invented rhiritis taoiets'
because IL you are doing your christ
mas shopping arount the first OF octo-
Der when all them poor feilers that
runs summer hotels and bathing pa
vilions Is saying to themselves: NOW
II gets warm Zapp. handkerchlefs Tor
colds are the furthest from your
thoughts. Also children whose moth
ers do their Christmas shopping IN
September Is apt to get school supplies
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of July, all the frankfurter factories
and trolley companies go quick me-
chullah."
"A5er, what's that got to do with
Christmas?" Birsky asked.
I'm coming to that" Zapp said.
People are commencing to figure aver
ages On Christmas also. Take Miss j.
r. Morgan, and she figures that out Of
every million Christmas presents dis
played in stores certain percentage
of people buys something which they
couldn't afford and gives it to GER
tain percentage of people which amt
got no use for it at all. So she goes
to work and gets up Society for the
Prevention Of Useless Giving, and con-
sequently a certain percentage of dry
goods stores loses a certain percentage
OF customers which formerly had a
rotten bank account and a good dis
position, and has now got a good bank
account and a rotten disposition"
'But Miss Morgan done this for lot
of salesladies which used to spend
their money SO foolishly at Christmas,
Zapp, that they had nothing left to
take q vacation with In the summer
tine"
THAT may be so. Birsky," Zapp said.
and while l amt exactly. a certified
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way other Christmas presents are, they
would cover all the redwood groves IL
California. But Ii amt the retailers
fault, Birsky. Sometimes the Teller IL
playing In hard luck like q merchant
like used to sell goods to by the name
Felix Immerglick out In Cincinnati
which q couple Of years ago last
Christmas he specialized oc sleighS
skates and cheap furs, and from De
cember IS ON they got such warm
smell In Cincinnati that the hotel keep
ers figured should they or should they
not open the roof gardens again. SC
the following year Irnmerglick cut cut
the sleighs and skates and laid In
bicycles, children's books ana very
attractive line Of umbrellas. and In
mergiick says that It's a wonder WITH
his luck he didn't also buy stock IN
a chain Of artificial Ice factories be
cause on the day he received the goods
In November the Thermometer goes
down to zero on him and stays that
way till q week after his next spring
millinery opening. Can you blame such
q Teller that he settles witt his cred
itOrS ~ Genus on inc OcAhdKt
listen, Zapp." Birsky said. "a 81
Teller could always
pin his bust-up on either . warm
lChristmas, a cold Easter or an invalid
wife. whereas the figures show that
1.-The average of real cold Chrisfmases
Iain't no more than the average Ct real
sick wives"
"Sure I know. Birsky. but figuring
iout the average IL what has done the
most harm to poker. pinochie. TIE
Fourth Of July. Christmas and all them
khings that former time people enjoyed
running chances on Take. for In
stance, the Fourth Of July, and . lot
Of people which considers even safety
matches gefahrlich goes to work and
figures that out Of every million people
that shoots on nrecrackers. one and
seven hundred and nfty-two one thou
sandths people gets burned. % they
nut the fireworks manufacturers out
of business. and now instead Of setting
on fireworks people goes to the shore
or trolley parks on the Fourth: and ~
soon a. Il gets figured out that Of ev-
cry million people that goes 10 trolley
} parks and Coney Island, six and nine
ty-seven three-thousandths gets Ma
eensaure from eating frankfurters and
rum over By trolley cars q ths Fourth
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public accountant, Birsky, figure that
If 80 per cent of Christmas shoppers
followed Miss Morgan's advice, Birsky.
the drygoods stores would shut down
around Christmas, and all them sales
ladies would not only take a vacation
In the summer time. but in the winter
time also; and then the question is.
how is them salesladies going to raise
money for their winter vacationsT'
"Miss Morgan would get up a sub
scription maybe" Birsky suggested.
'And the proceeds after the expenses
OF collection were deducted would sup
port twenty-three six hundredths Of q
saieslady for COOS hours, Birsky.~
Zapp concluded, (which the trouble
with them people that figure out the
averages is that they don't consider
human beings as men and women, but
as fractions ausgereckoned to hum
dred thousandths yet. Also it's q good
thing to figure out the averages on
the percentages CT people that set on
fireworks and don't get burned, and
the percentage Of people that It
wouldn't do q bit of harm to IL they
bought once In a while for somebody q
present. useful or otherwise. Ii other
words. Birsky. II you're going to reck-
on up the averages on anything, tho
best way Is to figure how it will affect
one hundred one hundredths Of the
people twelve months out Of the year.
and then 60 to work and get up the SO.
ciety for the Prevention Of Prevention
Societies and limit the membership to
one hundred million Americans. Most
Of Us would join It"
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