New Britain herald., 1916-11-01

America. I wish I had time to read senator O'Gorman's own words on words on this subject.
 in 1912 our navy stood second in tonnage among the nations of the world. In 1913 it stood third and now it is nowhere. Ships ordered in 1914 have not yet been begun. In l9l2 the dem ocratic committee on naval affairs in the house unanim ous- ly opposed the building of a single new battleship. In 1916, only last summer, the demo cratic committee in the house voted against the building of a single battleship. It has only been by constant pounding on the part of republicans and the patriotic press in the north that anything has been done to keep our navy from rap idly growing weaker and weaker every year.
 "The same indifference and ineffi- ciency has characterized all attempts to secure a regular army sufficient even to guard our Mexican border. So vacillating and incoherent has been the policy of the president that his own secretary of war resigned in disgust and the fools paradise" pro- gram so dear to the solid south will be our only program as long as the present administration remains in power
 There may be no danger for us this year or the next, but no sane man dare predict what will confront us in the next ten years. The tears of war dry quickly, but the hatreds of war live long. For seventy five years American histories taught the rising generations to hate England. I had not been in the senate a month be- fore l had occasion to snuff the smoke of the smoldering embers of hatred of the vanquished against those who destroyed the still precious cause that was lost by the confederate states of America.
 We must take men as they are. We must take the world as 1t Is. If we take it for better than it is, it will not hesitate to have it's will with us For two thousand years Christian men and women have gone to bed with the Golden Rule upon their lips and they have had some entrancing dreams, but they have always been awakened by the blare of the trumpet of war. Force is still the great con- NoS ed11Ce1. IIodll0S are SLl1l mere Wadding for cannon. National boun- diary lines are still surveyed by major generals.
 Who dares to say today what the future will bring forth Who dares to predict that war may not come to us within the next ten years un- sought. Across the water are colossal debts gigantic armies and armadas, and great suffering, great hatred, great envy, and longing eyes riveted upon rich, unguarded, truculent Amer ica.
 Only few days ago a warship ran the gauntlet of the Allied fleets, sailed three thousand miles to the westward anchored when and where she pleased in American waters, and in the return trip sent six great merchantmen to the bottom of the sea. Suppose that instead of one, fifty of these serpents of the sea from we know not where should come to us as enemies-come to recoup some of their money which we have been so gaily collecting and spending during the last three years They could sink every battIeship we have in night time, and they could collect from our coastal cities such NSNAAi' o't' t1lSy lS1I lHC1lIlSu lO dS- mand.
 The dem Ocratic party promises no improvement over it's past, and if it IS continued in power another four years we may repent with bitter but useless tears the statesmanship that has utterly failed to heed the grave warnings of the hour Remember, my friends when you vote next Tues hn trouble is to be able to end your way if it comes. Remember that the con- f1ict of right against wrong is an eter nal and irresponsible conflict and whenever the right ceases to resist it ceases to exist
 I love peace and abhor war I be- Heve that the only struggle worthy of man or race of men is the strug- gle against poverty and crime and disease. I believe we should be gen. erous toward all the world and do everything in our power to help bind the wounds and allay the hatreds. But l believe that if the time ever comes when the nations of the world can politically organize to enforce peace, it will be because the United States of America has a navy strong enough to CO1HpSl the respect or the world and insure her own safety should force continue to be substituted for the dictates of reason among the na- tions of Europe.
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 dies and Gentlemen:
 l have listened with close and re- spectful attention to the address of the brilliant senator from Connecticut. have been much impressed by many of the things that he has said But in all frankness I must be permitted to suggest that there are two out standing things about his address which seem to be strikingly signif- cant.
 'In the first place, throughout all