New Britain herald., 1916-06-14

! who made America and who saved America. He stands where John Adams stood, when he told King l George that America was the land l he loved and that peace was her | grandeur and her welfare. He stands 1 where General Grant stood when he l said there never was a war that l could not have been settled better 1 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 Wash ingtOn 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 it. For vain glory or for selfish pur- pose, others may cry up policy of blood and iron, but the president of the United States hts acted on the belief that the leader of a nation who plunges his people into an unneces- sary war like Pontius Pilate vainly
 washes his hand of innocent blood
 while the earth quakes and the heav-
 ems are darkened and thousands give
 up the ghost"
 Speaking of the opposition to the
 presidents peace policy, the speaker continued:
 What c. O. P. Stands For.
 By opposing what we stand for to- day, the republican party opposes what Hamilton stood for a century ago. The founder of the republican party and the founder of the demo- cratic party, placing their country's happiness above every other consider atlon, forgot partisanship and made American neutrality a national creed. We who follow Jefferson stand where Jefferson stood, but we look in vain for sign from the present leaders of the republican party to show that they follow where Hamilton led. Where Hamilton counseled moderation they denounce it. Where Hamilton thought only of country they think only of self Where Hamilton placed patriot ism above partisanship they placed partisanship above patriotism. How then do they dare to speak for the great body of American citizens who form the rank and file of the repub- lican party? Do these leaders be- lieve that their republication is a better republicanism than Hamiltons,
  ism than that of Washington?
 ''If Washington was right if Jeffer- son was right, if Hamilton was right, if Lincoln was right, then the presi- | dent of the United States is right to- day; if the republican leaders are i right then Lincolnswas wrong and Jef- 1 ferson was wrong and Hamilton was 1 wrong and Washington was wrong"
 of neutrality is expressed by MT. Glynn 1 n these words:
 Before this declaration every war was a world-war; since this de- 2laratlon nearly every war has been ] local war. Before this declaration var was a whirlpool ever-increasing Il area and in it's whirl dragging Town the nations or the earth; since hlS declaration war has become a ea of touble upon which nations em- 1 park only from self-will, from self-in- crest or the necessity of geographical 'osition, of financial obligation or po- itical alliance.
 "Neutrality is the policy which has ,ept us at peace while Europe has 'een driving the nails of war through he hands and feet of a crucif1ed hu- nanity.
 ''The praises of this policy are not written in the ruins of American lomes, not in the wreck of American industries, not in the mourning of American families; they are found n the myriad evidences of prosperity md plenty that make this content d land. From every whirling spindle 1 n America, from every factory wheel hat turns, from every growing thing hat breathes it's prayer of plenty to [ he skies, from every quiet school, rom every crowded mart, from every peaceful home goes up a song of praise, a paean of thanksgiving to lymn nations tribute to the state nanship that has brought these hings to pass"
 The issue raised by democracy's