The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-25
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN,s DEFENSE

r HIS NEW YORK speech Senator Chamberlain made Ger
tain accusations regarding the government and the
management of the The president in letter. charac
erzed these charges ian astonishing and absolutely unus
tfiable distortion of the truth"
Senator Chamberlain has replied. His reply will to
discriminating mind to confirm the presidents accusation
What is the truth in this matter?
The United States has raised great armies
1t has sent armies to France.
1t has raised billions of dollars to carry the war
is supplying the Allies with wheat coal and most of the
necessities of life
To do these things the government has Obliged not
Of preference but of necessity to change many things.
1t has fixed the price Of wheat and other foods.
1t has fixed the price of coal
It has taken management and control of railroads.
has laid heavy and difficult taxes, because such taxes
had to be laid No warning nation has escaped that necessity
All Of this has been done with very slight arrangement
of ordinary affairs The American people have recognized the
imperative nature of the work entrusted to the government
and have complied Loyalty with its demands.
This is evidence that the American people look with ap
prova on what has been done.
How we'll have these things been done?
America sprang to war ba sis in period of time at least
year Britain obtaining the
degree of preparation.
what has been done in all its elements Of
failure against the early preparation for the of 1872
for the Civil War; for the Spanish American Meas
against the preparation and arrangement of the Boer
in South Africa
When standards of the past applied, is misin-
formed not to know that the early preparation for this
is mmeasuab superior to the early preparation for other
known to this country must not be forgotten that Prus
STA preparing for forty years.
When thing has been done better than it
BEFORE it becomes very difficult to say and difficult to
prove, that somebody else would have done it better.
The best typewriter in the market is the best until
body produces better is argument at all to say that
JONES' could have made better typewriter if he had tried
Jones didn't make typewriter That settles it.
In carrying any great ork indeed in conrving
any sort of work. things hundred per perfect
The greater the task the larger the number Of things that may
be exhibited defective.
In times of perfect peace commit suicide murder their
fellow men, make industrial mistakes. They mumps
measles and pneumonia Coal strikes have been known to stop
coal supply completely than it is suspended Sick
occasionally neglected in hospitals Occasionally
in Connecticut hospital and has been known to leave
his cot naked, jump out of window and down street.
This is the truth about the governments early pre-
paration:
great work has been carried success
fully than any such work before, but subject to
the mistakes and inherent in human endeavOr
Before guns arrived for them few men drilled for few
days with wooden guns
Sometimes soldiers into camp ahead of their clothing
The machine gun supply has not come along fast as
the senator believes it should
There is not enough heavy ordnance
And then there a very pathetic letter, written by a
parent whose died hospital received attention
than he should have received
These fair examples of the facts upon which the
tor relies to prove his case.
single praise say for the great deeds
done The American him to have performed
wonderful task in taking troops to France without
cdent
All mechanism OF accomplishment gives Senator
Chamberlain thrill of pride. He only the defects
relatively tring matters in which stupendous organization
fails to function perfectly.
The presidents charge is proved down to the hi Sena-
tor Chamberlain is guilty of astonishing and absolutely IN
iusifiable distortion of the truth"
He looks upon the wonderful work his countrymen have
done He takes microscope to find the defects in their
alleges that these defects the true the
labor.
By process of reasoning the execution best
the world could be Justified if could be proved that
he had his
America is doing great work. Americans are laborine
proudly and noby and successfully in great They
expect make mistakes They will judge the completed tasl
by Standards not by the standards of nsncere perfec
tonss mouth unaainable ideals and think haefullv
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