The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-30
THE UN-AMERICAN TRIBUNE


 HORACE GREELEY could come back from his grave to read the Un-American Tribune, he would blush on either cheek for cheek would encarmne because the paper founded little patrioc the other would crm at the aenuaed logic by which that lack of patriotism supported.
 Any edition The Tribune will furnish example. That of today will do we'll any It contains effort to destroy the effect of Secretary Bakers saemen in which he told the American people, what has been accomplished in the way making The Tribune begins in this way
 mystic passion upon by judgment" Dubo place.
 The issue was personal The jealous partisans of Roose ve made combined assault upon Secretary Baker, assert ing every species of nnuendo that he had made failure of preparation Formerly they made h charge against Dan ie but abandoned that specification perfect instrument had the navy become The defense pubc it should have been Secretary Baker told the American people what Otherwise the UnAaerican people would still be contributing their worst to confuse and disturb their try.
 nothing mystical" about the secretarys plain matter of fact direct certain and successful In few brief sentences he drew for the American people picture of their greatness under trial true picture by which the colonel and his Spanish record adequately measured
 Here is another Tribune argument perhaps the strongest in the editorial under discusson-
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 Secretary Baker is the head great department of gov He said of sanaon that the best sites chosen camps and canonmens that General Wood selected for ts york; that what done submitted to the med cal experts.
 Speaking of Ordnance he said that what America lacked had supplied by the French and English and told thing of what is being done here.
 described the difficulties attached manufacturing pro- cedure his department had found difficulties Of cothng he said that the uniforms of the soldiers all wool but that their blankets and overcoa contain shoddy He spoke of transportation obstacles and described the railroads Amer- can soldiers have built in France.
 Wherever he touched subject it was to tell what the department had done doing would do He assumed except the head of great national depart should have The language used by the Tribune cheap puere and contempbe effort to make appear that Secretary Baker preends to possess all knowledge and all wis dom; that he is second Roosevelt
 What question actually involved in the discussion? the whole acquitted itself efficiently in prepar This the question: The Tribune doesn't touch it; never will touch it.
 Before the statement of what America has accomplished the mind appalled, by the spectacle of the vasness of the ons power So much has been done than the most supposed could be done The mistakes have been few; the dissatisfaction so little.
 The weaknesses of the country pre-war weaknesses breakdown of the railroads The story of government story of pride and of labor and accomplishments weak places made strong and strong places made stronger
 5OOOO0 fully armed and ready to fight million and half ready go fast transport is pre- pared Of almost every conceivable material there than is immediately needed.
 When Great Britain declared war she declared atorium. There has been moratorium in America Mer paid their debts credits have been extended usual
 When Britain declared her workers backed in the traces months before the unions could be pacaed
 The American government commanded the whoehearteC support of its workers from the beginning.
 The American government has managed great foreign pop ulaons generously and with little impairment of industrial eff fort.
 The American government has managed the greatest sorpon history the country with the entire approva of the American people, without riots and without boodshed
 record is something to make American thrill wit pride
 Pride fills hearts of all Americans except few with jealousy, eaten with ambition These who would victories to American success they to be in charge of America and its affairs