New Britain herald., 1916-09-02


 of the country, and these same inter- ests are now earnestly praying for @ reaction which will save their priv ileges,- for the restoration of their sworn friends to power before it Is too late to recover what they have lost. They fought with particular desperation and infinite resourceful- ness the reform of the banking and currency system, knowing that to be the citadel of their control; and most anxiously are they hoping and plan ming for the amendment of the fed eral reserve act by the concentration of control in a single bank which the old familiar group of bankers can keep under their eye and direction. But while the "big men" who used to write the tariffs and command the as sistance of the treasury have been hos tile,-all but few with vision,-the average business man knows that he has been delivered, and that the fear that was once every day in his heart that the men who controlled credit and directed enterprise from the committee rooms of congress would crush him, is there no more, and will not return,-unless the party that
 
 return to power,-the party of master ly inactivity and cunning resourceful- ness in standing pat to resist change.
 The republican party is just the party that cannot meet the new con- ditions of new age. It does not know the way and it does not wish new conditions It tried to break away from the old leaders and could not. They still select it's candidates and dictate it's policy, still resist change, still banker after the old con- ditions, still know no methods of en- couraging business but the old meth ods When it changes it's leaders and it's purposes and brings it's ideas up to date 1t will have the right to ask the American people to give 1t power again but not until then. A new age, an age of revolutionary change, needs new purposes and new ideas.
 Tn foreign affairs we have been guided by principles clearly conceived and consistently lived up to. Perhaps they have not been fully comprehend ed because they have hitherto gov erned international affairs only in theory, not in practice They are SllllpIc, ODN1OuS, StiSlly SldlSu, ctllu Iull- damental to American ideals.
 We have been neutral not only be- cause it was the fixed and traditional policy of the United States to stand aloof from the politics of Europe and because we had had no part either of action or of policy in the influences which brought on the present war, but also because it was manifestly our
 
 the indefinite extension of the fires of hate and desolation kindled by that terrible conflict and seek to serve mankind by reserving our strength and our resources for the anxious arH difficult days of restoration and heal ing which must follow, when peace will have to build it's house anew.
 The rights of our own citizens of course became involved:, that was inevitable. Where they did this was our guiding principles: that property rights can be vindicated by claims for damages when the war is over, and no modern nation can decline to arbitrate such claims; but the fundamental rights of humanity can not be. The loss of life is irrepar- able. Neither can direct violations of nations sovereignty await vindca- tiOn in suits for damages. The na- tion that violates these essential rights must expect to be checked and called to account by direct challenge and re- sistance. It at once makes the quar- rel in part our own. These are plain principles and we have never lost sight of them or departed from them, what ever the stress or the perpleXity of circumstance or the provocation to nasty resentment. The record is clear and consistent throughout and stands distinct and definite for anyone to judge who wishes to know the truth about it.
 The seas were not broad enough to keep the infection of the conflict out of our own politics. The passion and intrigUes of certain active groups and com binations of men am mongst us who were born under foreign flags injected the poison of disloyalty into our own most critical affairs, laid violent hands upon many of our industries, and sub iected us to the shame of divisions of sentiment and purpose in which America was condemned and forgot ten. It is part of the business of this year of reckoning and settle ment to speak plainly and act with unmistakable purpose in rebuke of these things, in order that they may be forever hereafter impossible. am the candidate of a party, but I am above all things else an Amer ican citizen. I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States.
 While Europe was at war our own continent, one of our own neighbors, was shaken by revolution. In that matter, too, principle was plain and | 1t was imperative that we should live | up to it if we were to deserve the | trust of any real partisan of the right | as free mon sec if We bava profosced