Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-25
Wilsonism.

MT. Editor: Sorry I am, if I dis turb the serenity of any one. Unfortu- nately for our country, Woodrow Will son has not asserted American rights against Great Britain. and there are persons who would attack an Ameri- can citizens who has the courage to protest against that policy. I am, and always have been free and independ- ent citizen of a free and independent nation. Archives of the dim past, fathers who gave their all, that Amer ica might live. is bulwark enough against the slLny slurs of bigots and buffoons. My only desire has been to secure respect for the honor and dignity of my country. It seems the get for those with religious and racial prejudices to fire at I return to my charge of few days ago. that MT. Wilson has anti-Irish leanings to the very marrow of his bones.
 His insult to the Irish appeared at the unveiling of the Barry monument, in his flag day speech, and on several occasions since that time. The waters of the sea can not cleanse him of this charge.
 MT. Hughes is said 10 be controlled by the German Americans. MT Will sons managers make this charge aft CT weeks of untiring efforts to win for Wilson the support of men whose approval it is criminal for MT. Hughes to accept. And what of MT. Wilson's efforts to reconcile Irish democrats?
 It is a plain fact Wilson's manag- CTS are having a hard nut to crack, to prove his love for the Irish MT. Will son has never been neutral. Efforts to make him neutral have been construed as an effort to have him side with Germany. For over two years Britain has done as she pleased with American 11I h1G been allowed to blacklist American firms. trading with neutral nations, which permits her to build up her own trade by unlawful means, at the ex- pense of America. We must credit Mir Hughes this much. He is no dema- gogue. He has never attacked any body of citizens, making charges that were not true. Hughes is @ man of his word. Wilson is not. It has come to a pretty pass when the greatest na- tion under the sun. cannot export, not even one pound of any commodity, to neutral nations even, with the protec- ton of the American flag. without the consent of the British ambassador at Washington. We have a prosperity with visions of blood running through it.
 While the munition makers are reap ing colossal riches the American wage earner faces Civil war time prices on the necessities of life. The eight cent loaf of bread goes hand-in-hand with the six-cent pint of milk. And before he eats that bread, flour can be had at about eleven dollars per barrel, and he will be able to keep the blood from running cold in his veins by paying the coal barons nine fifty per ton for coei. What panacea has MT. Wilson and his party to offer for this kind of prosperity Is the welfare of the blood lust European nations to be held in higher esteem than the welfare of American citizens? Can MT. Wilson deny the fact that the tremendous increase in the cost of living in the United States has been caused by the tremendous exporta- tion of foodstuffs to the waring na- tions? This is not real prosperity, 1t is a phantom, a visionary prosperity, which will terminate when the nations 2f the Old World tire of taking human fife.
 J. H. CUMMINGS.
 Norwich, Conn, Oct. 22. 1916.