South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-14

tween he United States are shown
10 0e legislation OF the widest bene-
Gt The Underwood tariff Mr. Glynn
characterized as the fairest and the
hest Of all we have enacted. Under
the present administration the United
states has enjoyed wonderful era
of good business and good times.
The American ideals and his as
pirations served as the basis for the
speakers opening discussion.
We who stand today on the fer
tile soil OF America. who live under
the smiling skies OF a free and fruit
lul land. must prove worthy Of the
trust that American sacrifice has inn
osed ON every American"
"Disregarding the divisions that
make one man "a tory and another a
s. hig one man a republican and an
ether "a democrat. Americans viii
cast aside the tinsel OF party labels
and the mummery of party emblems.
From the great pulsiug heart Of
the nation will come "a patriot COM
mand to crush partisanshi and re-
Duke whatever is mean or tlind.
That command will be heard 10y
the plowman i'm his field, and 10y the
laborer at his bench. II will reach
the merchant in his office. and the
lawyer at his desk. We would be
false 20 ourselves. and recreant to
those who send us here if we per-
mitted aLy thought of partisan
profit. any consideration of political
advantage to obscure our vision Of
the tremendous issues now before
the people Of the United States We
must east aside all that is selfish. we
must hold ourselves worthy of "A ua-
tons confidence by Offering only the
best of our Intelligence. the flower Of
cur patriotism toward the solution
of what all men perceive TO be a
( crisis in the nations affairs"
Praises Peace Policy.
In asking for an endorsement Of
the presidents peace policy Mr..
Clynn said:
For two years the world has been
ahre; the civilization that We know
las been torn by the mightiest
struggle in it's history. Sparks from
Furope's confagration have blazed
in our own skies. echoes of her
| strife have sounded at our very
doors. That fire still burns. that
struggle still continues, but thus far
the United States has held the flame
at bag: thus far it has saved it's peo-
Ele from participation in the conflict.
What the people of the United
! States must determine through their
suffrage. is whether the course the
country has pursued through this
| crucial period is TO be continued
whether the principles that have
been asserted as our national policy
snail be endorsed or Withdrawn.
This is the paramount issue. No
lesser issue must cloud it. no un-
! related problems must confuse it,"
In declaring that the policy of
/ neutrality is as American as the
American flag, Mr.. Glynn asserted
that:
The first president of the United
states was the first man to pro-
! rounce neutrality a rule of interna-
tional conduct,
I'm April. 1893. Washington de
ciared the doctrine; and within a
month John jay. chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States,
i'm an epoch-making decision from
the bench whose realization would
ensure universal and perpetual
peace, wrote the principle into the
law of this land. The Declaration of
independence had foretOld il by de-
claring the rest of mankind enc
mics i'm war. in peace friends the
constitution recognized il. but the
first president Of the United States
by proclamation. the first chief JUS
tee 10y Interpretation gave it vitality
and power.
Stands With Patriots.
THE president of the United
states stands today where stood the
men who made America and who
! saved America. lie stands where
John Adams stood. when he told
King George that America was the
land he loved and that peace was
her grandeur and her welfare. He
stands where Gen. Grant stood when
Re said there never was a war that
could not have been settled better
some other way. and he has shown
his Willingness TO try the ways OF
peace before he seeks the paths OF
war He stands where George Wash
ington stood when he prayed thai
this country would never unsheatf
the sword except in self defense SC
long as justice and our essentia
lights could be preserved without it
For vain glory or for selfish pur-