New Britain herald., 1916-06-10

spoken thought pronounces demo- cracy's divine experiment a failure and despotism civilizations last re- source
 Masking an attempted perVersion of national destiny by assuming the outward attributes of a moral cru Sade, others make more insldlous ap-
 peal. to the patriotic national heart, They upbraid us as unready, taunt us
 with potential treason to a trustee ship of priceless consecratiOn. With
 superb and superlative disregard of
 fact, they picture a naked America with a sceptre of straw confronting a world in arms Interest lends willing color to belief, and the lavish billion already poured out for na- tional defense becomes but a drop in the ocean Of their demand. No
 nation, they assert, may will it's own life or destiny. The intervening seas TO longer mark a barrier, but afford a. sure and fleet facility of access Slaves to reasoning that bastardizes logic and gives the lie to the experi- ence of the centuries, they assert that preparation to kill is killings sure and sole preventative; that pOten- tially the only fixed and final arbiter Of international conduct is ever az gregate aSsassina tiOn-me erely murder
 multiplied. No avenue of assault upon the public judgment, but speeds it's hurried courier of panic. Though the frenzy blood-lust and greed, astride the Whirlwind of unreason, shrill their selfish message in the nations ear, American common
 sense like a very pyramid in the
 sWirling sandstorm, is still unshaken.
 H.
 disturb, it may confuse it may con-
 trol the judgment Of this hour, but
 it will not control, it will not stam-
 pede the judgment of the American
 Ieople, ''the ninety-nine per cent"
 whose bodies must receive the bullets
 and who with their children and
 their children's children must pay
 and die. For them the inarticulate
 millions who sell no munitions of
 war, who float no war loans, who
 strive for no official place, who have
 no part in all this wild alarm, Wis.,
 Consin speaks. She presents their
 candidate today
 "They will not fall a-trembling be-
 fore the spectre of a dragon conjured like the fabled Phoenix from the ashes of exhausted, annihilated
 Europe; nor will they lash themselves into a father of panic before the
 Brown Man of the Pacific without some evidence of ill intent Not in a spirit of cowardice; not in a spirit of fear; not in a spirit of blind indeffer- ence to the lesson of the conflict; but with clear-visioned comprehension of the consequences their choice is made.
 "Out of earth's dawn, they see the nations in long procession come, each l in turn to find the hemlock Of ex- tinction in the lethal draught now pressed upon America with frenzied zeal With the spectacle of a con- tinent suicide before their eyes. they cannot be convinced that aalva- ton lies in stupid imitation of the l concerted folly that has laid the one half world'' in ashes at their feet. They read the European Scroll of l fcrment' to no such lame and impo- l tent conclusion.
 With soul and heart attuned to 1 the exquisite rhythm of humanity, 1 there comes to them the pathos of l penitential cry that not all l the tumult of brutal shout and brawl 1 the medieval buster; nor the thunder Of invective's cheap artillery can silence, stif1e, or suppress. For there is not a warmade grave that scars a European hillside, but makes 1t mute appeal. The. dry-eyed agony of l Womanhood that ever pays the last sore tribute of privation pleads in piteous beseeching prayer. The moaning shriek that tells of the col Ia pse of reasons tottering throne breathes forth in undertone a sad solemnity of admonition. Aye! in the composite cry from that ,Gethsemane that signalizes anguish's infinitude, warning dominates despair, and ad- jures America to adhere to her 
 ''The issue is indeed Americanism and our candidate the embodiment of Americanism-tha distinctive | that solved the problem of armament a century ago. There l to the north where lies a thousand l miles of shore with not a single | hattleship, and three thousand miles | of frontier without a fort; a line of l national boundary that cleaves a con- ! tlnent, and yet with all the veXing, varied problems of divided sovereign 1 ty, never the shock of conflict; never l Q hand to sword hilt: and far toward | the Southern Cross where the sure l footed statesmanship of Chile and the l Argentines has borne aloft the figure | o1 the eternal and ineffa ble Christ, 1 and placed it in everlasting eftigy 1 amid the summits of the Andes in | token of perpetual peace; these are ] the concerted ideals distinctly Ameri- l can, which the Western Hemisphere l offers as it's contribution to allay the l agony that grips the parent conti- l nent. These two single and signifi- l cant facts portend more for the well ! fare of the world than all the din of 1