Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-28
'JUNKERS' IN j. s,
Says MR.. DANIELS
Navy Head Asserts Repub|i-
cans Represent "Privilege'
in Political Combat.
SEES OLD IDEAS PASSING
Special Dispatch to The Star. :.

Special Dispatch to The Star. ::
NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, October 2s.-
Twill the junkers of America be al
lowed to undo the great achievements
of the Wilson administrations That
was the question asked by Mr.. Dam
iels. Secretary of the Navy, in an
address here today, in which he de-
clared that the forces Of privilege in
America in the last days before the
election were massing their forces to
elect republican Congress in order
that they might turn back the clock
in progressive policies which had
blessed the country since 1912"
These American junkers." said Mr..
Daniels, ARE not thinking about the
happen after the war. Their supreme
aim is to seize the arteries of COM
merce for their own enrichment, to
wipe out taxing laws that touch
swollen incomes and replace them by a
tax that burdens the toiler, and to
repeal or to emasculate the great
measures of social justice which are
the glory Of the Wilson administra-
ton.
This is domestic issue that the
American junkers have raised.'' he
continued. They are not concerned
with the matches manner in which
Wilson has carried on the war. In
their hearts they know that his four
teen demands voice Americas and the
worlds aspirations. Their criticism
of Wilson's policies and Wilson's de-
/, mands is the camouf1age for a Con-
gress that will be the agent of
privilege.
They do not seem to have learned
yet that the world after peace shall
come will never go back to the con-
ditions which existed prior to our en-
trance into the mighty struggle" de-
clared Mr.. Daniels. AFTER this war
| the people will take on new dignity.
What labor earns will find it's way
into the pockets of labor. New con-
ditions will impose new duties. Po-
litical shibboleths that men needed in
1s12-1916 are as dead as the mummies
| of Egypt. and public men who try to
galvaniZe them will be inferred in
the catacombs that overlook the Salt
river. This war is fundamental. It's
effect will be to change everything.
Trade and commerce and finance will
seek new and broader fields and men
will aspire to nobler standards. The
large returns from farm and factory
will not go to the few. but will be
apportioned to men of brain and
Drawn in proportion to the value of
their contribution.
There will be no place in this new
world for the leadership either of
timid men or those who grasp at the
shadows of issues which the war has
| relegated to the scrap heap.
What must follow, when the men
who have wrought well in furnace or
trenches or on the sea come into their
OWN" he asked. First of all, they
will be free to get the benefit of their
| fight for the freedom Of the seas.
They will continue to enlarge the
| merchant marine, so that American
bottoms will carry American goods
and exchange products with every
nation and with all the isles of the
sea. They will be less concerned as
| to whether this is by public or pri-
waite ownership than with securing
and charging worldwide commerce
| They will never return to duplication
petition in terminals and facilities
| All the benefits which government op-
Grafton of railroads have given will
] be continued, whether the railroads
are in public or private ownership
The telephone and telegraph will
probably be a permanent part of the
| postal service.
| The lessons of sanitation and wal
on drink and immoral disease will in
sure to the civilian population, as
great care and as strenuous effort in
the methods of prevention and cure
! as war has taught are needed for the
| men under arms. They will have little
| patience with the -do-its
and the better-stick-to-th the old-way
apostles and apologistS.''