New Britain herald., 1918-01-25


 avoid it. If you get in, see 1t through. Don't hit if 1t is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit man if you can honorably avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.
 NO man can be an American if he is not patriotic through and through; and at this time mans pa triotism should be absolute, and in all of our public acts it should mean an utter disregard of partisan poll tics. No public servant and no pri- vate man in his public relation has any business at this time to consider partisan politics. It is our duty to support every official just so long as that official does we'll. It is only less our duty to expose inefficiency wher- ever it is found and, therefore, to op- pose every official who in any way falls short in his duty to speed up the war and make the strength of the United States as quickly as possible and as efficienctly as possible felt in the conflict"
 The colonel here quoted from Will sons Congressional Government" to justify the investigations made by con- gress committees. The then Prof. Will son said
 Unless congress have and use every means of acquainting itself with the acts and disposition of the administra- tive agents of the government, the country must be helpless to learn how it is being served, and, unless congress both scrutinize these things and sift them by every form of discussion the country must remain in embarrassing and crippling ignorance of every force which it is most important that it should understand and direct. The in- forming function of congress should understand even to it's legislative func- tion."
 Concerning Senator Stone
 The colonel then said that he was acting on this principle and he hoped every upright servant of the people in congress- would act upon it. He went on:
 Tn the two houses of congress dur ing the year that is just closing, there has been almost no attempt to hamper the prosecution of the war by injecting partisanship. The most conspicuous
  by Senator Stone of Missouri. But the partisanship was the least offensive portion of his speech. The really of- fensive portion was that it was an at- tack on the interests of the United States, and. therefore, an insidious effort on behalf of Germany.
 "This is the same Senator Stone who a year from last fall, was defend ing himself from the revelations of Bernard Ridder as to his (Stones) negotiations for the German vote and | his effort to persuade the Germans 1 that he, Senator Stone, was speaking With auth ority when he said that the government would only make believe 1 to be against them, but would really | be for them. This is the same Senator ! Stone who voted against the declara- l tion of war last year. He is the sam @ Senator Stone who engaged in filibus- | tering operations of the kind which drew public rehuke to those engaged in them from the president of the | United States.
 Senator Stone did all he could to serve Germany against the United States by preventing the entry of the United States into war against Ger many and now does all he can to | SSING ISIIliny DV 6uuSdVOTlHS to prevent the United States from be- coming efficient in the war.
 1T care not snap of my finger for the politics of the man who is doing good work at this time. It is for that reason that I have support ed and shall continue to support Sen ator Chamberlain and his associates in the committee who have been conducting the investigation into the management of the war departm ent. I have followed pretty carefully the actions of that senatorial committee l do not believe that any of it's mem bers have been influenced in the smallest degree by partisanship.
 Investigators Rendered High Service,
 T believe, (no, I am going to al. ter that statement; l am going to put it as it should be putt I know that the senate Investigating com mitee has rendered the highest sers ice to this country.
 There are few of the older mem bers here who may recollect the things I said about the Cuban cam paign and the failures in the ad- ministration of the war department | I spoke when I was assistant secren ! tary of the navy. I spoke when