New Britain herald., 1916-06-14
AMERICANISM AND
 WILSON THE SAME
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present administration the United
 States has enjoyed a wonderful era
 of good business and good times.
 The Americans ideals and his aspi-
 rations served as the basis for the
 speakers opening. discussion.
 I've who stand today on the fertile
 soil of America who live under the
 smiling skies of a free and fruitful
 land, must prove worthy of the trust
 that American sacrifice has imposed
 on every American.
 "Disregarding the divisions that
 make one man a Tory and another
 Whig, one man republican and
 another a democrat, Americans will
 cast aside the tinsel of party labels
 and the mummery of party emblems.
 From the great pulsing heart of the nation will come a patriot com- mand to crush partisanship, and re-
 buke whatever is mean or blind.
 That command will be heard by the ploughman in his field, and by the labOrer at his bench. It will reach the merchant in his office and the lawyer at his desk. We would be false to ourselves, and recreant to those who send us here if we per- mitted any thought of partisan profit, any consideration of political advan- tage to obscure our vision of the tremendous issues now before the peO- pie of the United States. We must cast aside all that is selfish, we must hold ourselves worthy of a nations confidence by offering only the best of our intelligence, the flower of our patriotism toward the solution of what all men perceive to be a crisis in the nations affairs, ' Wilson's Peace Policy.
 In asking for an endorsement of the presidents peace policy MT. Glynn said:
 For two years the world has been l afre; the civilization that we know 1 has been torn by the mightiest strug- !; gle in it's history. Sparks from Flu I ropes confagratiOn have blazed in ! our own skies, echoes of her strife i have sounded at our very doors. That ! fire still burns, that struggle still con- tinues, but thus far the United States has held the flame at bay; thus far it has saved it's people from participa- tion in the conflict.
 E What the people of the United States must determine through their suffrage, is whether the course the .country has pursued through this icrucial period is to be continued: whether the principles that have been asserted as our national policy shall be endorsed or withdrawn.
 < This is the paramount issue. No lesser issue must cloud it, no un- 1 related problems must confuse it." , In declaring that the policy of neu- trality is as American as the Amer jean flag, MT. Glynn asserted that: !
 The first president of the United States was the first man to pronounce neutrality a rule of international con- duct.
 "In April, 1793, Washington de- clared the doctrine; and within month, John Jay, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1 in an epoch-making decision from the bench whose realization would ensure and perpetual peace, wrote the principle into the law of this land. The Dec1ara ton of Independence had foretold it by declaring the rest of mankind enemies in war, in peace friends;' the constitution recognized 1t; but the first president of the Unit ed States by proclamation, the first Chief Justice by interpretation gave 1t vitality and power.
 . ''The president of the United States stands today where stood the men