New Britain herald., 1918-04-24


the Senate yesterday over the Over
maE bill to give the President au-
thority to consolidate administrative
war activities was characterized by
an attack on Secretary Baker, Post
master General Burleson, Secretary
Wilson, and other Cabinet officers by
Senator Sherman, Republican, Of Illi-
nois, who linked them together as
Socialists and economic freaks
Urging that no more power be be-
slowed upon the President, the Illi-
nois Senator declared that Mr. Wilson
had surrounded himself with half
padifists, firebrands, and fends of Sc
dition.' He assailed George Creel,
head Of the Committee on Public In
formation, as having ABUSED the
Constitution and the fathers who
wrote it"
Senator Sherman denounced Secre-
tary Baker as a half pacifist half
Socialist" and alluded to the Presi-
bunch of wizards
Senator Sherman launched his at
tack on the Administration with a
reference to the Bolshevist uprising
in Russia.
ject of Trotzky's contempt, is the
only foundation upon which this re-
public can endure said Senator
Sherman. 1.-THE only Government Mr..
Trotzky and his associates are salts
fed with is the hobo governm emit"
The Soviet is composed of the Reds,
the anarchists, the disturbers of Rus
STA, and it was to them that the Pres
ident directed his solicitous cable
gram of March II, 1918, and their
reply to him shows that the President
has in his hand a blazing brand
that he is playing with fire and does
not know it.
I'm his communication to the Rus
sian Soviet the president has made
an unwise use Of the power vested in
him. It is an encouragement and 1t
is taken as an encouragement by the
Socialist government, founded and ad-
ministered in Reputation, in confsca-
ton, in wholesale murder by Trotzky
and his associates. Besides Trotzky
and Lenine, the president has unfor-
tunately associated himself with some
other company to describe which Is
disagreeable task to me, bus I shall
do it, and l might as well mention
Names
cit is a bunch of economic takers,
bowling dervishers, firebrands and
resilient friends of sedition that he
has around him.
Baker "Half Socialist"
"The secretary of war is half
socialist. He is a. municipal socialist,
a brand of socialist with which I
might not find any criticism, but he
is also a half pacifst He was before
the committee on military affairs.
and when reminded of the delays of
airplane construction in the prepa-
ton of. our military forces, in guns.
heavy ordnance, machine guns, of the
quarrel between the Lewis and the
Browning guns, he dismissed it with
an airy wave of his hand, saying,
There are 5000 miles between us and
the war Now, after he has come
back from his trip, I hope he has
learned what he could have learned
without going to Europe, If he only
listened to the chairman Of the mill
tary affairs committee of the senate
who had been talking preparation for
years.
1.-The stalwart undertaking of the
military affairs committee was that we
should speed up, and we should pre-
pare even before we declared war to
defend ourselves.
THE trouble is the secretary of war
was a pacifst, when he became secre-
tarv of war. He was opposed to war;
he proposed to end war by moral
suasion, by peace meeting, by argu-
,7ents addressed to the justice OF men.
hone that such methods will be
eficacious some time, but they are not
now T would rather settle in that
way any quarrel with which I have
anything to do, for | am not fighter.
but after looking on the face of Sir
Douglas Haig published in the Sunday
papers, and the face Of Hindenburg,
I have made up my mind that there