Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-15


and financial interests between the
United States and the nations or south
America are shown to be Legislation
Of the widest benefit The Underwood
tariff Mr.. Glynn characterized as the
fairest and the best of all we nave
enacted. Under the present admins
tration the United States has enjoyed
a wonderful era of good business and
good times.
American Ideals Fostered.
The Americans ideals and his as
pirations served as the basis for the
speakers opening discussion.
1--WE who stand today on the fertile
soil of America, who live under the
smiling skies Of free and fruitful
land, must prove worthy of the trust
that American sacrifice has imposed
on every American.
"Disregarding the divisions that
make one man Tory and another
Wing, one man n Republican and an
other a Democrat, Americans will cast
aside the tinse of party labels and the
mummery of party emblems.
From the great pulsing heart of the
nation will come n patriot command
to crush partisanship and rebuke what
ever is mean or blind.
"The command will be heard by the
plowman in his field and by the labor
err at his bench. 1t will reach the mer-
chant in his Office and the lawyer at
his desk. We would be false to our
selves and recreant to those who send
us here if we permitted any thought OF
partisan profit, any consideration of
political advantage to obscure our vi
sion Of the tremendous issues now be-
fore the people of the United States.
We must cast aside all that is selfish;
we must hold ourselves worthy of n
nations confidence by offering only the
best of our intelligence, the flower of
our patriotism toward the solution of
what all men perceive to be crisis In
the nations affairs"
The Paramount Issue.
In asking for an Endorsement of the
presidents peace policy Mr.. Glynn
said:
afire. The civilization that we know
has been torn by the mighticst strug.
gle in its history. Sparks from Eu
ropes contlagration have blaZed in our
own skies. echoes of her strife have
sounded at our very doors. That fire
still burns, that struggle still contin-
ues, but thus far the United States has
held the flame at bay, thus far it has
saved its people 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 cru
cial period is to be continued whether
the principles that have been asserted
as our national policy shall be Endorsed
or withdrawn.
This Is the paramount issue. No
lesser issue must cloud it, no unrelated
problems must confuse it."
In declaring that the policy of neu.
trality Is as American as the American
nag MIR. Glynn asserted that
THE first president Of the United
neutrality rule of international con.
duct.
I'm April, 1893, Washington declor.
ed the doctrine, and within month
John Jay, chief justice of the supreme
court Of the United States in an epoch
making decision from the bench whose
realization would insure universal and
I ~, l.,
into the law of this land. The Dec.
laration of Independence had foretold
it by declaring the rest of mankind
enemies in war, in peace friends The
constitution recognized it, but the first
president of the United States by
proclamation, the first chief justice by
Interpretation, gave it vitality and
power.
Stands With Washington.
"The president of the United States
stands today where stood the men
who made America and who saved
America. He stands where John Ad-
ans 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 General
/ Grant stood when he 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
Washington stood when ne prayed thai
this country would never unsheath the
sword except in self defense so long
as Justice and our essential rights could