The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-01
LET Us BE FAIo" DEMANDS
 LEUTHER IN GIVING RECITAL

They are arranged in 14 questions l with a blank for the answer. I am | going to ask that they be published 1 in the Record this way, so that any l Senator or any citizen may have the 1 opportunity of writing in the name of the President which, in their judg- | ment, answers the question. All that | I ask is that they can be candid1y an- l sWered.
 here and now promise to give as full publication as I can to the an sWers.
 The fl American Points.
 l. During whose administration has the American farmer received the greatest returns for his toll? .
 ?. During whose administration
 has the American 1aborer had his fullest dinner pail and received his greatest pay? ......
 3. During whose administration
 has the American business man made
 his largest profits?. ..........
 4. During whose administration
 has the American banker and Amer
 ican stockhoIder in other corpora
 tons received their largest divi- dends?
 5. During whose administration
 has America enjoyed her greatest
 prosperity?
 $. During whose administration has the greatest merchant marine , ever owned by America been built? '. During whose administration has the greatest banking cystem ever known been created? d?...
 8. During whose administration i has the of orie to bear its just proportion of taxa ton by the passage of income-tax laws?
 g. During whose. administration l did America become the great ffnan- | cial centre of the world? .
 l 10. During whose administration l has the American navy reached it's 1 highest efficiency? " II. During whose administration
 was it found that American citizens, untrained in times of peace, could be i transformed in a few short months 1 into better soldiers than those trained l for lifetime in the standing armies i of Europe? ,............ 1 12- During whose administration 1 did America achieve for herself, and l aid in achieving for allies, the great | est victory of all ages? .. | 13. During whose administration | was America changed from the great 1 est debtor nation to the greatest cre- 1 ditor nation in the world?
 A. During whose administration l has America made her greatest strides i toward becoming the first world l power, and has a President of the 1 United States become the acknowI- i edged peer of any ruler on earth? :? .. a Gl cratic opponents of President Wilson
 to answer these 14 questions fairly. To those senators who oppose him I l address myself particularly. He is the head of our Governm ent. Under his | leadership this nation has become prosperous and successful at home and victorious abroad, and it has pro-
 gressed as never before in it's his-
 tory. If under his leadership has been 1 accomplished the IA American facts | indicated in these questions, surely i every 100 per cent. American should be willing, in all fairness, to accord : him the justice of an answer. These facts are the result of Wilson's + American policies. If all 14 European policies are all wring-and a believe they are all right still every American must admit these 14 Amer. ican policies are what the American l people wanted, and every true Amer l jean takes the greatest pride in eacF 3 and every one of them. You can no set aside these IA American points, Urges Fair Play.
 l Political opponents of the Presi ; dent in every part of our country g be fair! You worked with him in de l claring the war. You worked with hin -' to make that war a success. Yol $ | Q JI-i+p hi +a ed principles for which we were fight Il ing. Now that under his leadership = the war has been a success, when W, y l have gained everything that we wen u U l into the war for, do not act the par | of a cuckoo. There is no place in ou H country for cuckoo Americans. B
 men enough to complete the job il Il the same patriotic spirit in which tn y war was declared and carried on. a Farmers, laboring men, banker: -l business men. great and small, I wan to warn you. Your conditions hav been the. best you have ever knowr
 You have no just cause for complain taken as whole. Do not you think Il unwise to interfere with these conoi tions? By reason of delay, condition are getting unsettled. To not yo u think you had better advise your rer Il resentatives to quit quibbling over de l. tails and get our affairs settled? Gu 'e people want peace and rest and nol U nal conditions in this country -e Fu11-blooded Americans, think 1T over! One hundred per cent Amer y cans, let us give our President an l. policies a square deal! His policie n have made the name America the syr oT onym of all that is fair and jus
 wherever civilization exists through e out the world. Free people an B. wou1d-be-free peoples of every clinl es look to America for guidance in ever r. upward noveTn ent.
 of Americans love fair play. We ar sr not being fair to our greatest cit It zen and our most successful leade SC He has been faithful both in wa ,e and in peace. He has been most sue
 cessful in both our domestic and GU foreign affairs. We have had 8 lon le and destructive war. UT people ar y. tired of war and its attending dis 4 turbing conditions. MT. Wilson ha to negotiated a reasonable peace, hor in orable alike to ourselves and our A