Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-09
DANIELS SEES
BRIGHTER DAYS
FOR AMERICA
Patriotism and Spirit That
Won the War Will Prevail,
He Says
WATCHFORW WIN. JENNINGS
Fellow War Workers Present
1t at Chamber of Com
merce Dinner

THE right of man to have and
TO hold what he earns by his brain,
his skill or his hands never has been
questioned by the United States, and
it never will be by any considerable
number of people," declared Secre-
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels,
speaking at n dinner given in his
Commerce at the Penn-Harris Ho-
tel last evening.
Reciting the efforts of the govern
ment to suppress treason and sabot-
age during the war by the imprison-
ment of the leaders of the !. w. W.,
pro-Germans and others of their ilk,
the Secretary said the wartime ac-
tivities along this line will be con-
tinued and "all who in this period
of readjustment would undermine
our institutions deserve and will re-
ceive the same treatment"
I'VE all know" he continued.
that there are profiteers among
businessmen, but the number is in
finitely small as compared with the
great body of honest, patriotic busi-
nessmen who devoted themselves
with so much energy to the winning
anarchists among workingmen, but
they are few as compared with the
great army of laboring men who
gave themselves with so much zeal
to the defeat of the Kaiser, and they
will rid their ranks of the danger
Gus radicals"
Better Days Ahead
There are better days ahead !"
the Secretary said, ''and the sun is
about to break through the clouds
that now obscure the blue sky"
Mr.. Daniels told in picturesque
fashion the story of Americas par
ticipation in the war from the stand
point of the Navy; how Mr. Wilson
addressed nearly 5000 officers of
the fleet gathered in York river, di-
rectly after the declaration of war,
and urged them to devise some new
means of meeting the submarine
menace as the Navy's great contri-
button to the war. The result was
the laying of a mine barrage COM
pletely across the North Sea and the
destruction of at least ten German
U-boats in the first ten days of its
operation.
Mr.. Daniels said that America s
industrial achievements in France
, are second only to the valor of the
American soldiers He paid a high
compliment to the whole-hearted
devotion and singleness of purpose
which prompted businessmen and
laboring men to join together with
no other thought than the winning
of the war. He said he was inn
pressed with the oneness of Amer
lea" at every turn during the war
and he spoke highly of the devotion
! of patriotic women and the activ-
| ity of men of all ranks who thought
they had passed the age of useful
endeavor.
Refers to Captain Dismukcs
Referring to the heroism of the
men of the Navy, Mr.. Daniels took
occasion to praise the skill and cour-
age of Captain Dismukes, who saw
ed his troopship after it had been
torpedoed by the Germans. He said
the war had given q new meaning
to the word "Yank."
"A little while ago and a North
Carolina soldier might have object.
cd to being called Yank," he said
"but in France the Yanks from
North Carolina and the Yanks from
Pennsylvania joined hands and de-
feated the shock troops of Germany
and all were proud of the term
Mr.. Daniels, who left the dinner
early to speak at Grace Methodist
Church, where he dedicated the
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