The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-15
DAVIES SPEECHES
REVEAL THE MAN
EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESSES DE.
LIVERED BY DEMOCRATIC CAN
DIDATE FOR SENATOR DIS
CLOSE THOUGHT
AND VISION.
UNSWERVING IN HIS LOYALTY
Big, Vital Thing Is to Win the War,
He Says-Can Be No Division of
Council or of Parties-AlI
Must Sustain the
President.

muSI OuSIdiH IiiS
President.
In speeches delivered by Joseph II.
Davies, Democratic candidate for
United States senator, In Wisconsin
and other parts of the country during
the past year, he has taken the firm
position that success Of American
arms In the struggle against the Ger
manic powers demands that a united
nation support President Wilson.
While all Of these speeches, from
which the appended extracts were tax
en-, were made long before Mr.. Davies
had any thought of entering the sena-
tOrial race, they disclose consistent
support Of the governments war poll
cies and devotion to the American
ideals as voiced by the president.
The excerpts follow:
"The paramount and only cOnSidera-
ton now Is to win the war. All other
problems must watt
"It is, l believe, a manifestation or
divine Providence that In this critical
period when great forces affecting the
future of democracy are in the making,
that there should be at the helm OF
the ship Of state leader who Is think
ing of preserving individualism in
democracy, whose wisdom Is based
upon those fundamental principles
which the economic and political his
tory Of the world has established, and
who is so directing these great forces
that they may be of the greatest eff
fectiveness to win the war, and yet
may be such that with victorious peace
there should remain to the greatest
possible degree such conditions as are
compatible with the ideals of demOc-
racy, to wit, the greatest possible free
dom and well-being Of the individual
which is compatible with the social
welfare"
1.-THE nation need have no fear of
the future after the winning of the
war"
"Prices have been increased by rea-
son of fundamental economic laws,
which will still be operating under any
system of price control. The purchas-
ing power of money itself is not
reached by any system of price fixing.
It Is an economic fact we'll recognized
that the last commodity to be affected
by rising prices is labor. Actual wage,
real wage, Is measured by purchasing
power. A standard Of living wage I'M
der these conditions must be main
tained with the full appreciation of
what it will entail in the reOrganiZa
ton of labor cost in international com.
petition after the war"
Responsibility and complete author
ity induce speed of action, which is a
permanent necessity The wisdom and
clarity of vision of the president of
the United States assures that there
shall be no division of responsibility
and authority to impair national effec
tiveness."
"a peace that cOntemplates the tri
| umph of the Prussian system of poll
tique reale, which would rule the
world, or Stalemate peace that would
require this and all other nations to
gather themselves together for a still
greater struggle in the future are alike
unthinkable"
"The government is thinking in
terms of winning this war. A still
greater participation Of government
itself in industry may be necessary.
Whatever may be necessary for still
greater coordination and effectiveness
of industry will be done to win the
war"
unfair competition is the seed Of
monopoly in industry. Control of the
raw material, of transportation and
unfair competition are the chief crea-
tors of private monopoly. Private
monopoly is intOlerable in a demOc-
racy, for it is the opposite of the idea.
1t is in fact not industrial freedom
but industrial monarchy"
at Is our war now-it is a war not
only to protect our material posses
sions-to protect our rights on the high
seas-and to protect our homes and
our conceptions of the rights of man
but it is a war to sustain the very
| fundamental case of civilizatfOn-tO
sustain the rule of law in the world. 1t
is a war to sustain Christian civiliza-
| ton. for the essence of Christianity
| is that altruism and law as enunciated
by the Son of God should be the ruling
| power of the world instead of brute
! strength and mere power Of might"
'The greatest hope for winning the
| war is to create in the minds and
| hearts of the German people the deter
mination that they, and not their war
mad rulers shall guide their destinies.
To assail the righteousness of our en-
try into this war, to question the integ-
rity of our motives and our purposes
| is to raise doubts in the minds Of the
Germanic people and to give aid and
comfort to our enemies"