Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-04

Justified in referring to Mir. Cum Cummings own record as :. prophet.
 Let me take Mr Cummings back to his whirlwind campaign in Connec ticut as candidate for the senate two years ago, Has he forgotten his tear starting peroration depicting the hor- TOTS of the war that h1r Hughes | Wuid bring upon us and his allurins ! "Homeric'' promises of peace should 1 he and MT. Wilson be elected Let me | quote here the last two sentences of 1 his speech delivered in New Britain | on October 24th, 1916: No matter l what the verdict of today may he, ten l years from LOW when we have looked ] 1 upon these pages of history and seen f the heroic size that this man CNi1- ! som holds n the history Of his na i tion, we will say after all after all the | i calumy. after all the criticism, after ] all the language of vitupe.ation that has been poured upon him this man has preserved the peace Of America and when the whole world was afiame with war, he kept a hundred million people froee from it's scGurge"
 Few people wanted war iG 1916. Mr | Wilson could not have secured ten votes for wsr in either branch of congress in 1916 The issue of peace or war was always above and beyond the pFeSlden-S control--fT Te1 many got us into the war and Germany alone had the power to keep us out. It was our lack of preparation fc.' war that republicans complained aboat and the record leaves no doubt as to the Soad
 erShip responsible for that lack Of preparation.
 Mir. Cummings was either stone blind to the future in 1915 or he was
 Durposely trying to deceive lhe Amer ican people CT he was jus gunning
 for votes as usual Do we want to
 continue our faith in such leadership;
 do we want to be as utterly unprepar. ed to meet the great problems that will confront us upon the restoration
 of peace as we were utterly unpre- , pared to fight when we declared war; If we would nay our debts and with
 stand the farce competition of the l world: if we would strive for social ? conditions that will insure prosperity 7 for all, we must produce fife neces- l saries and comforts of li:.f at con l stantly decreasing cost per unit The s inventor and the organizec. the expert ' the man whom Presiden- Wilson said
 he should carefully avoi3 and did avcid when he went to Washington is [ the only magician that can raise wag- : es and decrease the cost Of living at | the same time
 Q From 1860 to 1910 wages wera ( doubled in this country and the pur- 3 chasing power of the dollar was near = ly doubled: largely because the ex
 perts, the men who llnev how. the Q skilled men in chemistry, mechanics. 3 and organization were unnampered by
 unwise governmental interferece. r The war i2as plunged us into a sea I of state socialism. All power is cen cred in the executive. Ara we to con
 'nue to cen5ralize in the government
 II the industrial as well as the legis.
 ltive initiative? The record shove hat the democratic party will have t.
 truggle and struggle hard to free it.
 elf from 'the clutches Of paternaIism
 I've members of the presidents cab i net today are said to be state social .
 sts. When ;he bill turning the rail.
 ads over to the executive was before
 le committee of interstate commerce. l [ developed that six of the ten of the
 eIhocratic members of tfat commit
 ae favored making the government
 ossession of the railroads permanent
 Nnd Mir. Wilson's secretarr of the
 ~easury stlhbcrnlv opposId limiting
 s possession of the raiI,<Ads to the
 uration of the war Shall we con
 li1a to smother all the industries oi
 1e country, except the cotton grow l% industry, with mountains of rel Npe and Garffeldian regulations
 hall we continue to employ hundred,
 thousands of watchmen and in
 pectors, paying them higher wages
 han we do the men wno do tn
 -orll? It is estimated that -here ar
 100000 men in the erlp!oy of tn:
 oVernment today.
 The record shows that the presi- ! ert's views are confictiHg and ut erly unreliable upon this a'I import mt matter. On Labor Day, 1912, MT Wilson said, When we risist, there !. ore. when I as a democrat resis f he concentratio of power l am re isting the processes of death, ba 3 'ausc concentration of power is wha
 lways precades the destruction o . human initiative, and therefore of hu nan. energy"
 T The basic principles of inc demo
 ratio party as enunciated ly Thom t IS Jefferson in 1908 and bY Woodrow Wilson in 1908 have become "provin P 3ial" and should be discarded in tn