New Britain herald., 1919-09-25
COMMUNICATED
Whom Do Ne Serve, Mankind or the
 Beast in Man?


 men whose judgment could be safely relied upon under certain conditions, men looked ID to by their fellow men, men who on every point but one would be classed as broad mind ed. But that one point nullifes their usefulness and value to their fellow men, in the positions they hold and keeps back the progress of the world to a higher state of civilization. They see things only through certain col ored political glasses. They are par tisans and anything which does not have their party tag attached thereto is accursed. On this one point they are so narrow and bigoted their view is so distorted, so out of all harmony with good sense and judg- ment that they could be pitied were they not in a position to do harm. When they hold offices of trust from the people, when they can sway the destinie5 of nations, when they have it in their power to bring discord and bloodshed upon the earth, then they should, be regarded as the enemies of mankind and as such should be branded with the mark of Cain and be driven forth from participation in the affairs of government.
 Take for instance an article ad- lnitted to the editorial page of the Hartford Courant for Wednesday, written by Roger M Griswold, in which he passes judgment on the president of the United States. aCcus- ing him by innuendo of being either fool or a knaNe. Implying that MT. Wilson thought his 14 points would remove all the "inherent cuss- edn ess of human nature,' when no man of sense has ever suggested or thought such an idea, the least of all the president.
 In addition pr. Griswold quotes the Bible and tells us Almighty God wills that the sword should have sway throughout the earth and this when Christ's whole life was given to the teaching of peace, love and service of man to man. And as a climax we are told that the progress of human lty .Lnd the life of man depends on war. This is very much like telling a man to go out and commit suicide if he wishes to live
 Yet this nonsense is fully up to the speeches we hear some of the mem- bers of our most august United States sen lte making from day 10 day. They also have on the partisan glasses and
 
 face knocking over terrible images conjured up by their imaginations or deliberately created to fool the people into believing that the safety and very life of the nation is threat ened through the league of nations, when that very plan has been evolved by some of the wisest statesmen on earth to make that life and safety more secure.
 It has been represented by these petty politicians, who masquerade as statesmen, that England has six votes to the United States one and that we would be helpless against any thing Eng gland wished to put through when it comes to a vote, that through this preponderance she could practically. make. of us a vas- sal. This has been proved absolutely false and denotes either woeful ignor- ance or a direct attempt to misrep- resent and deceive. If this ignorance or plain lying is true in regard to one item it is only reasonable to believe it true of the other items that are up for amendment.
 Now if the opponents of the league of nations are not ignorant of what they are attem ptlng to do and are not partisans, whom are they serving? Have they a brief from Germany? Nothing could please that nation bet ter than the leagues defeat. Do they represent autocracy while pretending to guard the interests of this land? Are they agents for munition manu- lecturers, who thrive on war and bloodshed? If not some or all of these things why oppose the best, the most acticable plan ever of- fered to aid in maintaining the peace | of the world?
 If this treaty is not adopted why | will we not be required to build more 1 the training of great numbers of our young men to the trade of murder? :? | Why will we not be compelled to spend increasingly large sums of money to fortify our coasts? Why will be not be required to build more and even more ships of war? Let the opponents give us better i reasons than any they have yet ad- vanced for the defeat of this treaty. | The holding up of this league ques- 1 ton here in the national senate is creating more and more dissension l and discord throughout tue entire world. It is permitting tite foment- ing of economic warfare through a ] constantly sincreasing number of strikes. It is allowing the spread of Bolshevistic propaganda and delay ing the settlement of the world s peace generally, and 1t is forcing higher and higher the cost of living everywhere. Many of these questions would have been settled now but for this needless delay. Will men, re- sponsiblee, be guiltless in the day of judgment for this useless, suffering throughout the world? Have they not the blood of their fellow men on their hands through wilful oppo- sition to a peace settlement? I be- lieve 1t and I do pot think I am alone