New Britain herald., 1916-11-01

l the government of the United States ] up to date The republican party has , utterly failed to appreciate the neces- 1 sity for progressive legislation. 'lAh, my friends, the difficulty with i the republican party has been that l it has been unable or unwilling to give ] these things to the people of the l United States.
 And most curiously, these meas
 ures of reform received in almost
 every instance republican support.
 '"The ship purchase act was voted
 for in the house and carried by a vote | of 211 to 1 and sixteen republicans voted for 1t and it passed the senate by vote of thirty eight to twenty 1 one
 ] The Seamen's law which has been 1 so much the subject of criticism by ' republican leaders, passed the senate
 without roll call
 | Antitrust Act '"The Clayton antitrust act, which | has now been criticised by some of l the leaders of the republican party q believe, if I am not mistaken, Sen
 ator Mclean voted No on this vote), 1 passed the house on June 5, 1914 by
 a vote of 277 to only fifty-four. All | but one democrat voted for it and forty-one republicans and fifteen pro- | gressives voted for it. It passed the
 senate by a vote of fortysix to six l teen and in the senate there were l seven republican senators who voted | for it.
 My friend, Senator Mclean, has 1 suggested that the democrats pro- posed a scuttle policy in the Philip l pines and in the early part of his ad- l tress he used these words: Go to 1 the record I now go to the record. | The Philippine bill passed the house 1 without a roll call or division, and passed the senate on Feb. 4, 1916, | by a vote of fifty-two to twenty-four. 1 Six republicans and forty-six demo- 1 crats voted for it.
 'The agricultural extension act ! which has been needed in this country 1 for years passed the house and sen- l ate without a roll call.
 '"The war revenue and tariff com
 mission act passed the house, 200 1 democrats voting for 1t and no demo- | crat voted against it, and thirty-six republicans also voted for 1t. Received G. O. P. Support. Then the federal reserve act re- 1 ceived republican support. It is as- l tonishing to me that the senator
 would go through his opening ad- | dress without one word about the
 most important act of legislation that
 has been passed in America in a gen. 1 eration.
 Why, my friends, the federal re-
 serve act released the currency sys- 0f ! mare of a panic that has brooded
 over it ever since the republican par
 ty has been in power. We have had
 panics in this country every once in
 while because of our inadequate
 currency system
 There has never been panic in
 America, except when the republican
 party was in power or republican 1 laws were on the statute books, and
 1 challenge the senator to dispute it. i They talk about the panic of 1893. An, my friends, we have Just been | trying to bring America up to date 1 We have given America what she has l needed for generation. We have giv- i ell America progressive forward look 1 ing legislation and we are trying des- l perately hard to keep Americas face 1 to the front.
 The Adamson Act we now come to the Adamson law l haven't much time to stop to discuss this act. You all know that a crisis l threatened America. You all know l that while the senator may talk about l the injury that this law has done to 1 labor, the most astonishing thing ! about t is that labor does not know it. You know we were threatened with a nation wide strike. You know that Heny Ford telegraphed to the pres ident, asking his power to stop this strike as he had 42,000 men that he would have to discharge. The fruit
 growers of California begged the president to stop the strike. They said the fruit was on the trees and if the transportation facilities were interfered with even for tWenty-four hours, it would cause the bankruptcy
 of one-third of the fruit producers of
 California. We had 100, ,0OO troops on
 the border, that we had to take care
 of and there wasn't a city in Ameri-
 ca that had one weeks supply of
 food, or had forty eight hours sup
 ply of milk for the children of this
 country.
 Where Was Hughes?
 Where was Brother Hughes all this time? He was roaming around the country, complaining bitterly that a man named Durand had been re- moved from the geodectic survey.
 Eight Hour Law Coming.
 Nov, I don't know how you may feel about this, but I do know this, that society is progressing more and