The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09

l
 dience. Scout Cassels told a dra-
 matte story. Rev. Archibald F.
 Campbell, pastor of Washington Park
 M. E.. church, presented the claims
 of Great Britain, and described Lloyd
 George as Premier of the World. ] The most important speech of the
 evening, from the Connecticut stand | point, was the speech of Justice Geo.
 w.. Wheeler, member of the State
 Council of Defense, who proclaimed d
 the kind of peace that Connecticut
 desires This peace is to be just, l but stern. Germany is to pay to her 1 capacity.
 The audience was great and en- thuslastic. Patriotic songs, British and American, were rendered with fervor. The Liberty Chorus aided.
 Judge Wheeler said:
 Judge WhoeIers Speech.
 May I supplement the reading of the resolution by brief word which this occasion invites. .t-.
 A few weeks ago, throughout Ger many, rich and poor, high and low,
 old and young, raised their voices in ! one refrain l God strafe England"
 | Tonight, into that country goes sounding mighty chorus of all the lovers of liberty around the world: God bless EngIand!"
 Yes, God bless her, for her superb courage, for her daunt1ess faith, for her stubborn, unyielding will and for her impregnable resolution. God bless that sleepless fleet, those Tommies, pressed back, but never conquered, and in the end triumphant.
 God bless the English people at home whose sacrifices and labors sus- tatned the war. And God bless the heroic women of England ready to die in front line had not America ta- Ken the place they had prepared to fill.
 what changes have come!
 Where is Bernstorff, summoned but yesterday from Constantinople to ad- wise his Imperial German government upon the motives and ideals of Amer lca. Sunk in the depth of his infamv, , known of all men, fit companion of BoyEd and vonPapen. instigator of arson, and murder upon a neutral people, alder and abettor of the crime of the century, the sinking of the Lusitania.
 Where is Zimmerman?
 Where is Zimmerman, foreign sec retary of state, plotting to give to 1 Mexico, our own Arizona, New Mexi 1 co and lower California?
 Where is Luxburg, the discoverer of | that latest German practice, sinking | without leaving a trace?
 Where is Dernberg, who so1eron1y warned us ere he left us, that Ger many had given of her blood and treasure for Belgium, and she would | never never give her up?
 And where is his imperial majesty, the Kaiser? O'''
 The hours are different in Deutsch- land. He has retired. His sleep is ! broken. He seems to hear someone chanting Captain Coughlin's verses:
 pulls mitt Gott, und Gott init me,
 Meinself und Gott."
 lie wakes, and like Edgar in King Lear, the poor man finds it's all dream. He has mixed his divinities- mats all. l refer to these worthies lest you forget, lest you forget.
 l do not want you to treasure ami. mostly. Revenge hurts him who eives more than him who takes.
 but IL Is well to keep our perspec- elVe. The militarists of Germany were oehlnd the Kaiser; the Junkers were oehlnd him; the clergy and the pro- Iessors were behind him, and behind tnem throughout the war were the German people, otherwise it couId mot nave been fought on.
 Hunger and privatton and s17fferine ana the arms of. the Allies, pointinp the way to yet further defeat finally forced these people to yield. But no word of sorrow for their sins m breath of penitence, no +raca oe shame, no sympathy for the millions dead through their cruelty m sng1 gestion of making reparation bo, conie out or Germany. That is the awful truth' They are not penitent, and they are not changed.
 AS Hearst deleted the Presidents thanksgiving Proclamation so Dr SOFT and the socialist government de- leted the armistice. They left ont or ] the copy which the German peonle { saw the clause which promises inc l 7 cooperation of the Allies in providing Looo TOT Germany during the arnis- .lce' Perhaps there's an explanation f Tor this deletion. Hearst had one ihe night editor didn't have space to permit all of the short Thankspivipg Froclmation, and so by accident- 'uch an unhapy accident-he cut out the one. part which ought not to have been cut Solf may consult Hearst ' Other German statesmen have. ' T guess ned better. It's a place for high art In the way of explanation. Why do they do this? |
 US habit of mind. Fraud and f untruth and unfairness and cannot be eradicated over nlght' Character is a plant of slow T growth. Q
 And why do they do this?
 Is it not to prevent theft people sec ng the noble generosity of the AL V les? At the same time Solf addresses he President, and the women of Ger many address Jane Addams and Mrs i Wilson, begging for bread. that pro- t 1ision of the armistice which they de- eted said, '"The Allies and the United states contemplate such provisioning 1T 'f Germany during the armistice as W 'hall be found necessary" tt
 Why these appeals to America? U
 Is it not to work upon our vanity md to appeal to our humanity, in the lope not of increasing succor, but of sl Irving the wedge of discord between IC he Allies and America?
 Every instinct of propriety dictated = hat such request. if necessary and 5 itting,. should be made to the master If the .armistice, the defender of the