New Britain herald., 1916-10-18
IL lynn ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES
AT BIG HARTFORD MEETING
Governor of New York and Keynote Speaker at Dem
ccratc Convention at St. Louis DeIiv-
ers Thrilling Address,

spite the meanings of misanthrOpes or
| the predictions of false prophets, all
| legislative changes are not for the
worse else the world would have stood
still and man remained in his pri-
meval state.
This administration has attacked
the causes. not the symptoms of our
national ills. with the thought that q
| thorough cure, however unpleasant, is
better for the body polite than a
mere palliative which lowers the
fever without removing the canker.
This administration has believed
| that the way to our national saliva
ton lies along the path of considera-
| ton for social cost as we'll as econo-
, mic cost in every step that we take
J and every move that we make
| This administration has concerned
| itself with the living thoughts Of iv-
| ing men more than with the letter of
| dead edicts or defunct statutes, and
| in it's efforts to realize our traditional
! aspirations under new conditions it
| has not departed from the ideals of
the fathers in adapting our traditional
policy to our present day needs.
This administration has realized
| that the way to promote national eff
| fciency is to foster individual eff
| cheney by an equalization of oppor-
tunity as far as legislation can equal
| ize opportunity amid the complexities
| Of civilization and the vagaries of
nature.
This administration has recognized
that the power which has turned the
face Of the world from monarchy to-
wards democracy is the moral power
of democracy and because of this
| moral power it is the duty of a demo-
cratic form of government to view
legislation from q moral as we'll as
from an economic viewpoint.
This administration has realized
that the mission of democracy is the
widest possible diffusion of material
we'll being with a humanizing and
harmonizing Of the people of ma
ton into a solidarity of purpose and
mutually of interest.
This administration has asserted
and maintained that the people who
tug at the ropes of society's coach
and pull the coach along are made Of
the same clay, endowed with the
same rights and entitled to the same
consideration as the people who ride
on top Of the coach.
And what is the result of this reali-
zation, of this assertion, Of this main
tenance?
No longer will the hearts of little
children be coined into gold or their
blood stain the commerce of our land;
no longer will the poetry of youth be
robbed Of it's glamor or it's song of
joy transformed into a lamentation of
despair.
No longer will the sewers Of our
seed and the reapers of our harvest
hn Snrodn y11n In Of
our financial world.
No longer will widows and orphans, |
robbed of their pittance and savings, |
beat their clenched fists in vain upon
the doors of banks closed by manu-
featured panics.
No longer will any man or set Of
men be able to corner the money mar
ket, or take the country's business
by the throat and force it to deliver
to their financial pressure.
No longer will labor wear the stig-
ma of a modify; no longer will
the mon who carry the burden of the
world upon their shoulders be brand
ed as matters of barter, as objects
Of sale; no longer will labor be denied
it's crown of honor; no longer de-
prived of it's place in the councils Of
the nation.
No longer will the poor pay moro
than their proper share Of taxation
for the entrenchment of the powerful
the enrichment Of the rich.
What is the result? Why, to capt.
u1ate. To capitulate all the social
and humanitarian laws which this ad-
min1stration has enacted in four years
would be to enumerate all the forward
looking pieces of legislation for which
the schools have cried, the churches
preached and the humanitarfans
sighed during the great progressive
movement of the last generation
A Lesson From Lincoln.
In all that we have done we have
lived up to that impulse toward l1u-
mainly which has made the official
| career of Abraham Lincoln revered
by men worthy Of the name, beloved
by women whose instincts are I'M
warped.
one day while president of the
United States Abraham Lincoln with
his long black coat and his tall 81
hat walked down Pennsylvania eve
nue. with a friend. On the curb stood
group of men watching a beetle on
its back vainly clawing the air with
its legs to attempt to get upon its
feet. To the amazement Of the by
ISLANDERS Abraham Lincoln bent down
upon knee, righted that beetle about
and placed him upon his legs AS he
stood the Great Commoner remarked
to his friends eff I had left that beetle
struggling there on his back 1 would
not have felt just right. I wanted to
put him on his feet and give him an
equal chance with every other beetle
of his class"
AS far as national legislation, party
advocacy or executive action can open
the gates of opportunity and hold the
scales Of justice true this administra-
ton has placed every man on his feet
and given him an equal chance with