The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-14
RINGING CHEERS OF DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES
 GREET GLYNNS TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT

''when Adams was president France preyed upon our commerce. She ex- tended her seizure, searches and con- hscations to, the very waters of the United States themselves until she had piled up in our state department charges of over 2,Soo violations of neu- trality's law. "But we didn't go to war. Adams settled our troubles by negotiation, just as the president of the United States is trying to do today.
 "When Washington was president and, neutrality first declared, war convulsed Europe our ships dared not to put to sea. @ommerce was paralyzed and business depressed. American pas sengers and American crews were thrown into prison and deprived of legal rights
 "But we didn't go to war. Washing ton settled our troubles by negotiat tion, 1 just as the president of the United | States is trying to do today" Advocates of War Confounded. [ In concluding this issue MT. Glynn asks:
 Do the critics of the present admin istration believe that Lincoln should have risked national disaster by using the sword rather than the pen in press l ing the Alabama claims? Are they willing to brand Grant as a coward because he kept us at peace with l Spain?'
 | In answer to those who say that President Wilson's policy does not sat isfy any one MT: Glynn replies: ''He means that it does not satisfy those who would map out a new and untried | they forget it does satisfy those who believe the United States should live up to the principles it has professed I for century and more.
 Chief Justice White of the United l States supreme court says this policy l has given America the greatest diplo- l matic victory of the past generation. l Maximilian Harden, Germany's noted | editor, says that never once has this republic violated its neutrality and 1 Gilbert K. Chesterton, the famous Eng fish journalist says it is the duty of | the president of the United States to protect the interests of the people of 1 the United States;' that he can't dip his country into hell just to show the world he has a keen sense of being an individual savior
 .sThis policy,'' Mr. sGlynn continued, 1 destruction and find pleasure in de spair. It may not satisfy the fire eater or the swashbuckler But it does satisfy those who worship at the altar of the god of peace. It does satisfy | the mothers of the land at whose hearth and hreside no jingoistic war has placed an empty chair. It does satisfy the daughters of this land from whom bfuster and brag have sent no l loving brother to the dissolution of 1 the grave. It does satisfy the fathers | of this land and the sons of this land 1 who will fight for our flag and die for I our flag when reason primes the ride, when honor draws the sword, when | justice breathes a blessing on the standards they uphold
 Fighting for every degree of in jury,'' he maintained, would mean perpetual war. and this is the policy of our opponents, deny it how they will. It would give us a war abroad each time the fighting cock of the Euro l pean weather vane shifted with the breeze. It would make America the cockpit of the world. We would be so busy settling other peoples quar- l rels that we would have no time to attend to ouT own business" | Preparedness For Defense.
 In his treatment of the issue of pre- | paredness MT. G1ynn asserts that the 1 genius of this country is. for peace.
 we have built our greatness on the | resources of nature and the peaceful toll of our people. The ring of the anvil not the rattle of the saber; the song of the reaper, not the shr1ek Of the soldier; the chatter of the shuttle, not the crack of the rifle, have won us | Sraf INeA SOf the world.
 Like the old Mohawk chief who loved peace, we would like 10 throw the tomahawk of war so high in the sky that no mans hand could ever l pull it down. But when some other tribe among the races of men sends us a bundle of arrows wrapped in the skin of a ratt1esnake we want, like old Governor Bradford of Massachu- setts, to be in a position to send that rattlesnake skin back stuffed with pow der and with ball.
 'sfWe have been carried too close to the rocks of war during the past two years to believe that those rocks do not exist And looking into the future we can perceive that if our sovereignty is not challenged, if our peace is not assai1ed, it will only be because the world knows that we are strong enough to defend ourselves from every foe.
 For these reasons this admtnistra- tion has done more for our army and
 our navy than any administration in
 our history
 More than this, it has mobilized
 the resources of the nation to meet the needs of war. Itt has placed the
 wealth of the country back of the
 strength of the country, the toi1er back
 of the soldier and the sailor.
 And to our opponents we say you
 can't create an army, can't create a
 navy, in the course of day. To them
 we say if our navy is not strong
 enough, our army not big enough, the
 Republican party is 30 per cent to
 blame. for the Republican party has