New Britain herald., 1916-02-16
ROOT ATTACKS POLICIES
 OF DEMOCRATIC REGIME
Ex-Senator Plays Wilson and Party for Lack of Fore sight to Make Timely Provision for Backing
 Up of American Diplomacy

and all ordinary alterations which 1 play so great a part in presidential l campaigns are and ought to be ! dwarfed into insignificance." He | promised that if the republican party
 is returned to power the people may
 expect a foreign policy which will leave no doubt anywhere in the world
 of Americas purpose and courage to [ protect and defend her independence, l her territory and the lives and just rights of her citizens under the laws of nations;'' and that the people may expect, also, that the government will
 stand for full and adequate prepara- 1 ton by the American people for their 1 own defence"
 | Lack Of Foresight. MT. Root charged the present ad- ministration with "the lack of fore sight to make timely provision for backing up of American diplomacy by actual Or assured military force:' With the forfeiture of the worlds respect for our assertion of rights by pursuing the policy of making threats and of failing to make them good;" and with "a loss of the moral forces of the civilized world through failure to truly interpret to the world the spirit of the American democracy in it's attitude towards the terrible events which accompanied the early stages of the War; These, said MT. Root, were the administration three fundamen- tai errOrs.''
 Party of Opposition.
 The temporary chairman said in part:
 For the first time in twenty years we enter the field as the party of op- position, and indeed it is a much long CT time, for in 1896, in all respects save the tariff, the real opposition to the sturdy and patriotic course of Presi- dent Cleveland was to be found in par ty that followed MT. Bryan. It is our duty as the opposition to bring the democratic party to the bar of public judgment, to put it upon it's defense so far as we see just and substantial grounds, and whether its spirit, it's policies, and its performances are the best that the American people can do in the way of popular self-govern- ment"
 Discussing the domestic situation before the European war began, MT. Root declared that during the eighteen
 
 had been "a steady increase in Amer ican production, in exports and in rev. enues and a steady increase in imports 1 and expenditures" Enterprise had | halted, he asserted, and new under | no longer made their appear 1 ance, and the country's productive h. dustries "were laboring under 8 rlisfit | -ariff devised by the democratic party n a spirit of suspicion distrust and | hostility towards American business | and transportation and | had become dull and de- spondent" The tariff commission ere ated under republican legislation to the facts upon which tariff laws should be based, MT. Root said had been driven out of business and no substitute provided. At Washing ton, he declared, there was a nervous dread lest somebody make money,' and "envy of business success was an element in the framing of legislation and the administration of the laws.
 MT. Root continued:
 Not Changed By War.
 'The great war has not changed the lesson which we had already learned when it began. It has but obscured demonstration. It has caused an enormous demand for some things which the United States is able to pro- duce in large quantities, and in these lines of production, while other in dustries still languish, there have been extensive employment of labor, great exports and a, great influx of money. But this is temporary, it must soon cease, and when the factories have stopped and their laborers arc no