Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-24

national defense, but concerned with a purely political use of the prepared ness movement. An alternative theory is that he was grossly iIl-infor1ned on the conditions of real defense. Either view shows him recreant to the most important of trusts.
 F. In all our European dealings he has failed to express the moral i'm pulses of the Nation. On the contrary, he has given to the indifference of a considerable portion of our citizens, the fair name of neutrality. He has virtually counselled US to be selfish and callous, and has done so in the name of morality. Thus he has in creased confusion of thought among us, given place for discord and dis pretending that we have no interest in or right to judge a great situation which deeply concerns US.
 IS He has forgotten, and bidden us forget, our murdered dead of the Lusi- tania.
 A. While he has exercised a law yerlille activity In defense of our rights, he has throughout induIged the utter folly Of following hard words with soft deeds or sheer surrender Thus, without vfndicating or securing our rights, he has given offence to nearly all the European powers. He has needlessly heckled the beligerents without really gaining anything by it, while he has utterly failed to give any support, moral or practical, to neutral powers. From the violation Of Bel Glum on, he has shut his eyes to the shattering of the painfully built fabric of public right. Declining to express a moral judgment, which was his right and duty of leadership, he has debased US to a position of ignoble ti1nidity.
 15. Under the lash of the railroad unions, and looking towards his own reelection, he forced upon Congress the infamous Adamson Law. In go doing he consented to the subterfuge by which a demand for higher ages was masked as a demand for an eight. hour day. He yielded to coercion a case which required information and deliberation, and made our national legislature share in the shame of his own surrender.
 Is. In all his actions he has shown small inclination to consult persons of weight and knowledge preferring the advice of his interiors and flat terers. The personal quality of his Cabinet shows his incapacity or un- willingness to enlist competence in the public service.
 IT, After accepting a pledge not to seek second nomination. he is friv- olousIy playing politics both with our domestic and foreign interests. He does nothing consistently or resoIutely, put at one time or another throws out fine phrases to catch votes
 IS. He has generally shown a mar ow-ninded hostility to great bus mess. but has made exceptions, as in the new tariff, when the great bus mess was Southern and Democra tic. His foolish championship of the un- workable bill which puts the Govern ment into the shipping business, shows the amateurishnesS of the man in all business matters.
 19. He has made no endeavor to restrain extravagant public expendi- ture, but has let it be an excuse for in creasing the income tax with it's un- fairly narrow incidence and conf1scat- ory intent
 20. He has verbaIized our states manship, covering alike his slackness and timidity as a leader, and his guile as politician, under a beWildering ooze of incessant rhetoric But thus interposing mere phrases between us and the realities of policy and action, he has hunniliated the Nation in it's own eyes and before the world as people represented by spokesman whose word is not current coin but glittering counterfeit.
 l shall vote for Hughes for the single reason that his whole career shows him to be the possessor of those qual- ities of intellectual integrity and moral resolution which President Will son so evidently lacks.