New Britain herald., 1916-01-21

his own country stands on par with | a man who loves other women as much as he does his own wife The | United States can accomplish little for mankind save. insofar as within it's borders it develops an intense 1 spirit of Americanism. The profes- l Sors of every form of hyphenated l Amerlcanism are as thoroughly the foes of this country as if they dwellod l without its borders and made acti Te l war against it. Once it was truc, as Lincoln said, that this country could not endure half free and half 1 slave. Today it is true that it can- not endure half American and half 1 foreign. The hyphen is incom patti 1 ble with patriotism.
 Must Run Risks.
 "World peace must rest on the will l ingness of nations with courage, cool 1 foresight and readiness for self-sac- : rifice to defend the fabric of interna- | tiOnal law. No nation can he!D in 1 securing an organized peaceful and justice doing world community until 1 it is willing to run risks and make eff forts to secure and maintain such t community.
 
 system is the best instrument of in dustrial and military preparedness, the speaker said, and all the forces to such an end must be under the regu- 1ation of a single power, the power of the national government There is nothing in the country to which to point as an example of military eff ciency, he said, and as regards the navy America was in good shape seven years ago, but since then Ger many, England and Japan have gone ahead very fast, while we at first 1 stopped going ahead and for the last l three years have been going back l ward. Colonel Roosevelt praised l California for what he called 8 'genu- inc and successful effort to secure in l dustrial prosperity and also that az 1 proximate reasonable division of the l results of prosperity which can only ] come when there is both an aroused social conscience and a common sense translation by practical men of that social conscience into efficient legis- lative and administrative action.
 DemagOgue Great Enemy.
 "On the whole, the demagogue; is at least as great an enemy of social ad- vancement as the crooked champion of business and political privilege MT. Roosevelt said. "CalifOrnia, un- der Governor Johnson, has tried to do justice to the railways as we'll as te exact justice from them. This eff fort has been partially nullified by the fact that in direct contravention of one of the main purposes which the United States constitution was de- -;r mitted interstate commerce largely to pass under the control of the states instead of keeping it under the con- trol of the nation. When, for in stance, California, approaching the fact that railroads cannot possibly be successfully operated unless they are allowed business opportunities which l will enable them to make a reason able profit acted accordingly the ac- tion was nullified by certain neigh boring state commissions. Califor- nia's experience has shown that it is impossible permanently to secure 1 good results in dealing with the in StrumentaitieS of interstate com merce, the railroads, doing an inter- l state business, through the commits sions of forty eight different states, and that the only way is to have the ! whole business of interstate com merce and everything pertainingz. to l it handled by the administrative of- l ficers t.Washington.
 T believe in a national incorpora- l ton law for corporations of any size l engaged in interstate business"
 Great Drawback
 One of the greatest drawback in T Iit1rr h11 wit is the determination of professional ] antitrust men to punish the corpor- 1 ations for past abuses, the speaker l said. He advocates laws for the ben l eft of farmers, workers and shippers, but asserted that if these laws make :, it impossible for the shipping inter- ests, for the railroads, or for any of l the great business interests concerned, 1 to do business at reasona ble profit | they create a situation far more in 1 tOlerable than that which they en- deavOr to remedy. No commerce 1 commission or railway commission he said, lis worth it's suit unless it | stands unflinchingly against any pop | ular clamor which prevents the cor 1 poration from getting ample profits, 1 exactly as it stands against the cor l poratlon which, having secured ample 1 profits, fails to render proper service 1 to the public, to do justice to it's em- 1 ployes and to act honestly toward all l men,"
 Discusses Germany.
 Discussing Germany, Colonel Roose- l welt said:
 For the last eighteen months I l have borne testim ony with all my strength against Germany be- !