The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
SHIPPING LACK
PROVES SEVERE
FOR AUSTRALIA
Crawford Vaughn, EXPIRE
mier, Declares There Is
Wheat In Plenty
ANTIPODEANS HAVE
DONE THEIR SHARE
Bunker Hill Sealed the
Fate of Kaiserdom,"
Speaker Asserts

Hon. Crawford Vaughn, ex-premier
of South Australia, will come to Con-
necticut next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday for three addresses, the
first in Hartford, the second in New
Haven and the third in Bridgeport.
He is speaking in important cities of
the United States under the direction
of the speaking division of the Com
mittee on Public Information, Wash
ingtoE. and the National Security
League. The former premier has out
lined the purpose for which he has
been invited to speak in this country
as ito cement the good feeling which
exists here between labor and capital
in the prosecution of the war"
The address in Hartford will be
given next Monday evening in the
High School hall. The New Haven
meeting will be Tuesday evening in
Woolsey hall, and Wednesdays meet
ing in Bridgeport will he in the High
School auditorium.
Former Premier Vaughn for 10
years has been a labor member Of
the state parliaments in Australia and
has been a member Of the two labor
governments the last of which he
was premier. He relinquished his
premiership last July, and IS ut the
present lie the 4eader of the Ma
tionalists' party in his state. He is
also a member of the State War
Council of South Australia He has
been associated with labor activities
~, . Ii
political career.
In a statement to representatives of
the Connecticut State Council of De-
tense, under whose auspices he comes
to Connecticut, Mr.. Vaughn said:
1.-THE cooperation of the industrial
forces at home with the military
forces abroad is just as essential to
victory as the cooperation between
the artillery and the infantry 1t is
useless to organize 100000 splendid
men unless their needs are supplied,
in the way of ships, munitions, cloth
ing and all those essentials for the
prosecution of mighty campaign.
1.-THE man who drives nail into a
wooden ship is driving nail into the
coffin of the kaiser.
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or assists in transportation or does
some other work of that character is
doing his bit as much as if he enlist
ed. Neither the profiteer nor the
Stacker should find any place in the
body polite in this critical era.
President Wilson has promised to
keep the profiteer poor and I am sat
isfied from what I have seen that
the workers in this country will trans
late their patriotism into their every
day work.
"Now something about Australia:
'"The need Of ships is emphasized
by the fact that while America has
wheatless days and meatless days in
order to send its surplus to the starry
ing people of Europe, Australia has
on hand two and a half years har-
vest, amounting to 100000 tons of
wheat waiting transportation. 1t has
it's extensive meat works filed to
their capacity, the lack of ships pre-
/ venting the dispatch Of these essen
| tials to the front
Australia has contributed to the
Allies, 100000 men up to June, last,
or approximately 100000 up to the
to s per cent. of it's population, and
| the although the draft has not been
accepted by the people of Australia
we are in this war, as the Prime Min
| lister affirmed, to the last man and the
last shilling
! Impartial history reveals the fact
/ that the selfgoverning dominions of
/ Britain earned their liberty to man
! age their affairs through the heroic
fight for freedom by Washington and
the men of Valley Forge.
Bunker Hill sealed the fight of
Kaiserdom of that day and the issue
today is whether the principle, for
which Washington fought should be
maintained against the principle OF
autocracy and military oppression.
Australia can never repay the debt it
owes to America any more probably
than America can repay the debt il
owes to the gallant France except IL
the way as expressed by Genera
Pershing before the Statue of Lafay-
cite in France, when he said Lafay'
cite, we have come
Australia had lost 10000 mel
which of course, could not be com
pared with the losses of other Allied
countries but we were determined no
to sheathe the sword until that TO
which it was drawn, namely the in
dependence of Belgium and the free
dom for humanity from the menac
of Prussian militarism had beel
finally and completely finished"