The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
Bridgeport.

Bridgeport.
 At best we at home compared to you could do little, but we could keep faith with you. We could try to carry on over here, to keep sentiment high, courage up, production ahead, ships on the ways, and stronger every day, the will to win No man or woman in all this land can ever look upon him who served in this great war without a feeling of admiration for his countrymen and gratitude for what they did You who were necessary part of this war machine played your part well. In war the American soldier and sailor were truly great. It is over so far as you and I are concerned. But the obli- gations that have arisen out of the war bind us as long as we live. There was a motto on one of our magazines which I saw yesterday,
 'The true American is one who stands by Americans as well in Peace as in War" You have helped keep this country a home for freemen, you who made it possible for people all over the world to share in the bless ings of free government, you who caused thrones to totter and fall, and let me name two or three of the most stead have still, great duties to per form.
 I cannot stop to discuss these but let me name tw or three of the most imperative:
 First today is to see the Victory Loan goes well over.
 The idea, less than a week, and not half of the greatest investment ever offered to any people subscribed for. The idea, a people halting when our Government needs this money to bring aver the 1, ,5O0,O0 men in the ser vice on the other side; halting when we must garner up your triumphs, when we must lend and help these new countries, when we must aid generously, Italy, France and Bel gium from our abundance! We must | help stabilize their commerce and their economical position. A sacrifice ! to subscribe? Do you go out and
 make these laggards to see that this is not a sacrifice? Tis is a boon. The
 only sacrifice worth thinking of is
 the sacrifice which the men made
 tude, and patriotism say to us,
 awake, subscribe.
 Again what we want most of all is l
 war out of the world.
 Practically it can be done by an 1 agreement of the nations now in con- | ference. In such a document no one 1 nation can be in complete harmony l with all it's parts. Each nation has l it's peculiar interests to serve, and | often selfish interests. Agreement
 means giving away a little for the ] common end.
 That is what has been done. The
 League, of Nations, in my judgment, | amply protects the interests of the United States. It is a great step to- ward universal peace. It is, as I con- l ceiVe it, the duty of every American | to cast aside his little point of view,
 to lay away partisanship in cold stor- l age and to get behind the greatest 1 document the human race has ever been called upon to support. And 1 when we do that, let us not forget 1 the great patient figure, whose wis 1 ion, whose faith and whose indon1it-
 able will and courage have made this 1 wonderful achievement possible. Pos | terity will link his name with that of l Washington and Lincoln, less than
 they in judgment, but equal in pa
 triotic faith in America and in love | of humanity and human rights, and | equal to the great Emancipator in | lis faith in the average man, and per J Aaps greater than either in sheer in- tellectuaI grasp and in a vision ot | things unseen.
 One other duty is yours, and I cal | upon the soldier to perform it. | received today a report upon a meet | ing held at Rackozi hall, in whict | the speaker said in effect that the
 Hungarian working class in America | has got to organize against the trusts
 so that the working class should have
 control of all land and machinery which is intended for mines, land
 shops and storage houses, and he tolc
 the people present that the quicker
 we organize the quicker we will have this and also said, Its better today