New Britain herald., 1916-06-09

the history of his party; ana Dy lhe same token a democrat concelVes @ marked aversion for history and gives full range to his imagination Tn the
 wider field of prophecy
 The republican party takes pride in it's past eagerly grapples With the problems of the present and faces the dawn with confidence and high pur-
 pose; our democratic friends would
 like to forget their party's past, they are not certain of its present attitude
 on any great national question and for the future they are thinking of "Molasses to catch fies' at the next election.
 We are proud of what we have con- tributed to history, but our past per- formances are not our only assets. We must not sit serene in self-sat isfied contemplation of the work al- ready done; but inspired by an he- roic past and chastened by the fires of defeat let us gird up our Joins to meet new conditions and fight new battles. Lexington and Yorktown had been failures but for Gettysburg and Ap- pomattOx. Each generation has it's battles to fight-its problems to solve. No party can win on pride or ancestry or richness of inh eritance; it must be willing and able to do the world S work now; it cannot stand still or turn back-it must go ahead. The republican party deserves to live and to win, because it has it's face to the future all aglow, in the consciousness of capacity for service in the solution of the problems of today and of the experience and patriotism to guide the ship of state on the untried, tempest tossed seas of tomorrow.
 ''The monumental folly and med ding of1iciousness of the present na- tiOnal. administration have needleSsly complicated the problems of the pres ent and made imperative the return to power of the republican party to re- gain for the nation it's lost prestige abroad and restore to it's people a stable industrial prosperity founded on something more Humanitarian and abiding than the misfortunes of our sister-nations A prosperity fed upon dead mems bones is ghastly and can not long endure. A nations pride, a country's welfare are at stake here. This is the time and place for clear thinking, passionless poise and unsel- fish purpose. The eyes of the~ world are upon you; you shall nobly save
 
 earth
 The republican party was made to handle a situation like the present. Our foreign relations are now in a hopeless tangle, and Americans are less proud of their country than they once were, even though we are as- sured on high authority that we are too proud to fight The foreign pol ioIy Of oo oo1 1Y,oir, ictr f 1,o brought chagrin at home and con- tempt abroad; it has vacillated be- tween the pen and the sword, and it's policy of 'watchful waiting has dem onstrated that there is more of wait ing than of 'watchfulness.' We have alternately coddled all the chief ban dits in Mexico and supplied them with the bullets which are now being sent back to us in the mangled bod ieS of our citizens and soldiers. We have lost the confidence and gained the ill will of every nation in Europe; their good will and confidence can be regained only by the republican policy of fairness to all, favOritism to none, with the maintenance of an absolute unflinching neutrality among all the belligerent powers.
 ''The evil effects of the outworn sec- tional tariff policy, adopted by the national administration, have been to some extent, obscured by the fever ish, ephemeral activity which is the outgrowth of the lamentable Euro pean conflict. Every sane man knows that but for this unnatural and in- humane stimulus our industries would be prostrate, and we would be face to face with industrial depression, such as we have not seen in half a century. And when this world-war ends, another trial war will begin; but that will be an industrial war that will know no neutrals-all will be bel ligerents, As a military and naval preparedness adequate to make any nation or combination of nations he's itate to violate the rights of our citi- zens or the sanctity of our flag is a guaranty of peace, so industrial prep aration through the enactment of 8 republican protective tariff law is es- sential if we would maintain Amer ican wage rates and standards of liv- ing. In the midst of world problems, we need in the White House a red blood ed American who knows the world. The states of Central and South Amer ica are now luke-warm and suspicious we must nominate as our candidate a man who knows them and whom they know. The spirit of Pan-Amer- icanism first found it's expression in the ringing voice of the Plumed Knight, James G. Blaine; if We would regain our lost prestige in Latin America and secure for our people the opportunity for commercial expansion which those countries afford we must win their confidence by placing at the head of the nation a man in sym pathy with the aspirations and ac- uuainted with their needs. The nom-