Republican farmer., 1918-01-18
SHIPPING LACK PROVES SEVERE
 FOR AUSTRALIA
Crawford Vaughn, Ez-Pre- mier, Declares There Is
 Wheat In Plenty
ANTIPODEA.NS HAVE
 DONE THEIR SHARE
Bunker Hill Sealed the Fate of Kaiserdom;;''
 Speaker Asserts

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 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 iii 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 be in the High School auditorium.
 Former Premier Vaughn for 13 years has been 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 at the present he the leader Of the Ma tionalists' party in his state. He is also a member of the State War Council of South Australia He has !ibeen associated with labor activities in Australia during the whole of his political career.
 In a statement to representatives of the Connecticut State Council of De- fense, under whose auspices he comes to Connecticut, MT. Vaughn said: '"The cooperation of the industrial i forces at home with the military forces abroad is just as essential to victory as the cooperation between the artillery and the infantry. It is useless to organize 5000 900 splendid man unless their needs are supplied in the way of ships, munitions, cloth 1 ing and all those essentials for the prosecution of a mighty campaign.
 'The man who drives a nail into a | "OOuGh SIl1p uA1f1llS fL 4IeA41 14iIO S4iS coffin of the kaiser.
 l '"The man who produces coal, oi | 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 proffteer nor tht i stacker should find any place in the body polite in this critical era
 President Wilson has promised tc keep the profteer poor and I am sat isfied from what I have seen that the workers in ths 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 ha: wheatless days and meatless days il order to send it's surplus to the starv ing people of Europe, Australia ha! on hand two and a half years har vest, amounting to 6,00O,000 tons O wheat, waiting transportation. It ha! it's extensive meat works filled tC their capacity, the lack of ships pre- venting the dispatch of these essen tials to the front
 Australia has contributed to tht Allies, 36O,O00 men up to June, last or approximately 100000 up to tht first of January. The number is equa to per cent. of it's population, ant the although the draft has not beer accepted by the people of Australia we are in this war, as the Prime Min
 ister affirmed, to the last man and thu last shilling.
 Impartial history reveals the fac that the selfgoverning dominions O Britain earned their liberty to man age their affairs through the heroi fight for freedom by Washington ant the men of Valley Forge.
 Bunker Hill sealed the fight o Kaiserdom of that day and the issu
 today is whether the principle fo which Washington fought should b,
 maintained against the principle o autocracy and military oppression Australia can never repay the debt i
 owes to America any more probabl,
 than America can repay the debt 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 30,o0O me-
 which of course. could not be com
 pared with the losses of other Allie
 countries but we were determined no
 to sheathe the sword until that fo 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"