The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-31
DEPEW FAvORS KEEPING U. s.
 ARMY ABROAD

New York, March 31-Former Sen ator Chauncey M. Depew, chairman | of the board of directors of the New York Central Railroad Co.,, just back from the South, looking ruddy and buoyant, says:
 "Bread will beat Bolsh "A large standing army will be re- l quired in Europe after peace is de- clared.
 "The present high wages must be maintained.
 "The Monroe Doctrine is our sure anchorage, and any weakening Of it will be & grave mistake.
 An American merchant marine
 cannot live unless it is subsidized, and 1t is not likely to be subsidized until the Middle West sees a commercial advantage in such subsidization.
 "The prohibitionists, if successful in stopping the use of alcoholic bever-
 ages, will successfully prohibit tea and coffee within the next few years" League Changes Needed. ''It is a singular circumstance" said
 MT. Depew last night" that a sup possibly perfect document-the Presi- i ident so regarded it-like the league of nations covenant, should be found 1 by the President himself to need four or five substantial alterations. Often 1t takes a little time for the 1 truth and the right thing to work itself out of the twilight into the open | day, but usually the evolution takes l place. When I was a boy we used | to fight in my particular village in 1 Westchester county every Saturday. yT1I,o Io I When one man had the other man fiat on his back, in position to gouge out 1 his eyes or choke him to death, the | fellow on his back usually had sense enough to indicate that he had had
 enough fight. Ordinarily 8 definite | understanding between the combat ants was reached then and there l That was Germany's position after | the war. The Hun was down and | gasping for terms. He would have | accepted any terms. That was the time to impose the terms. Instead of 1 laying down the terms to him, the 1 Allies-the opponent of the Hun-sud- 1 denly became so seized with the idea | that it would be well to settle a lot | of matters between themselves that | they let the Hun get on his feet. Now | the Allies are not just sure that the Hun was licked at all, and the Hun | begins to think the same way about
 it himself.
 Europe In Chaotic State. '"The present chaotic condition in
 all of Middle Europe refutes the idea
 that the small states of Middle and
 Eastern Europe were ready for self | determination.
 | ultimately we shall reach some
 sort of a basis of settlement and things will quiet down, but on ac- 1 count os the ancient racial antagon- isms between the states and the in l f1ammation of the war any place will l need to be guaranteed by a large l standing army for decades to come. "Our sure anchorage is the Monroe 1 Doctrine. Any weakening Of it would
 be a, grave mistake for us. We do
 not need to shoulder new and grave i international obligations on account 1 of the war. There is a clearer recog- | hilton today of the United States as l a great moral force than ever before | At the Algeciras conference the
 Kaiser was determined to seize Mo- l rocco, which would have provoked a
 war with France, and probably Eng land. Our delegates protested against the Kaiser's proposed action. It was l a display of moral force, and 1t count 1 ed. The Kaiser didn't know just how l far we would carry our protest l The open door in China was ob- 1 tained without 8, gun behind our de- | naand, because John Hay believed in 1 the potentia1ity of our moral force. | If we could do so much then, without 1 a show of physical force, we shall be | able to do much more from this time l forward.
 1 We raised an army of 100000 , men in a year and a half and we
 drafted an army of 15,000,00O. We actually sent across 100000 men.
 Europe knows the result. Histor-
 fans for centuries to come will keep that accomplishment in mind. More
 over, we raised 5000, 100000 for kwar purposes, and loan"d Europe sS,- 1 900, ,000,0 more, withGlt winlling an | eye. That record will always give
 the United States a great moral force
 in the eyes of the nations. We 1 should obligate ourselves to maintain an army of our men in Europe,
 +Bolshsv.sm is nightmare in
 Europe today but it will not make | much headway here. Bread will stop | 1t as soon as anything. and gradually
 the bread problem will be settled I
 look to see tremendously rapid | commercial recovery on the part of | the European nations once peace is
 restored.
 s'The United States should prepare ] for the siaarpest competition in it's J history. am a proteotionist, and I
 am a great believer in high wages,