New Britain herald., 1918-02-22

i pride of our people to stand up
 against any such lure and have the 1 Germans know that they cannot lead 1 a moral people like us to give up a 1 moral fight like this.'
 Bolshevili Gold-Bricked. MT. Taft referred to the peace nego- t1atiOnS at BreSt-Iitovsk and said that
 the Bolsheviki was gold d-bricked by William of HohenZollern and his Pots dam gang. In painting a picture of the present chaotic conditions in Rus sia, the former president said that country now was "a babbling mass of human proto oplasm.''
 MT. Taft spoke of his trip during the past 30 days to the various national army cantonments and gave some of the conclusions he has formed. He gave full credit to the administration.
 NThe men whom one met as the re- suit of the selective draft were as fine material for soldiers as the world has ever seen. The average-because they have been taken as a cross section of the country-is higher than in the Ma tional Guard or in the regular army" he said.
 Mir Taft's warning against an in conclusive peace was echoed by Gov ernor Lowden and Elihu Root. The latter was to have been one of the principal speakers, but, being unable to attend because Of illness, he sent a letter warning the public should be careful not to have it's attention dis tracted from the inten~ concentra- tion necessary to win the war by the discussion about peace that was aD bearing in some papers and at some gatherings. He pointed out that there f;r+j hut basis for peace negotiations. In his letter, which was read at the couven- ton, MT. Root said:
 Let us be warned by poor Russia's present position The Bolsheviki were very eloquent about peace without an nexations or indemnities, and they filled the minds of Russian soldiers and workmen with the idea, to such an extent that they stopped fighting and making munitions, but when they got to Brest-Litovsl1 they found what the leaders probably knew all along-that Germany had no intention of making any such peace.
 Would Keep Baltic Provinces.
 She wanted the Baltic provinces of
 Russia, and she seized and purposes
 to keep them; and Russia, having
 stopped fighting in favor of the kind of peace she admired, finds herself
 in a position where for the present she has nothing whatever to say about the kind of peace there shall be. We must beware of anything in the re-
 motest degree approach ing that. Of course there have been mis- takes and shortcomings in the con- duct of the war-it would be mir ! ac1e if there were not. Sincere and constructive criticism of executive conduct is a very useful thing. But we all must be careful that neither shortcoming or criticism tends in the slightest degree to divert or decrease 1 the heartiness with which we all SUD- l port and reinforce the president and his civil and military officers in carry ] ing on this war.
 ] 'I beg of you as citizens of this great republic not to let your minds l be carried from the great work we 1 have before us"
 l A plea for universal military serv- ice was made by G. Stanward Menl<in.
 president of the National Security | lea que.
 Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., for merly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who is l one of the delegates to the National 1 Service Congress, addressed the con-
 vention She said the women of 1 America are not working together 1 sufficiently to win the war and until i they do it will never be won. 1 eff they could only realize that this 1 war is not 5000 miles away. but is 1 a dreadful shadow that is altogether