Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-28
COVENANT IS MONROE
DOCTRINE OF WORLD
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SAYS
No Biacker Crime Against Civilization Has Ever Soied TIE
Pages of Our History, He Says of Peace Treaty Deate
in Senate Praises Admins tration in the Worlds VIZ


SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s.-The
League of Nations covenant was
championed as the Monroe Doctrine
Of the world" by Homer Cummings
temporary chairman of the Demo
cratic national convention. in his
key note address here today.
OF the peace treaty's defeat in the
senate. he said: mo blacker crime
against civilization has ever soiled
the pages of our history"
He characterized tie Republican
platform as "reactionar- &nd pro-
vincial." Filled with premeditated
slanders and vague promises. it will
be searched in vain for one construc-
tive suggestion for the reformation
of the conditions which it criticizes
and deplores." he continued.
The oppressed peoples of the
earth will look TO it in vain. 1t con
tains no message of hope for Ireland
no word of mercy for Armenia: and
1t conceals a sword for Mexico. It is
the work of men concerned more
with material things than with hui
man rights. 1t contains no thought,
no purpose which can give impulse
or thrill to those who love liberty
and hope to make the world a safer
and happier place for the average
man"
He declared that the peace time
record OF the Democratic party from
March, 1913 to the outbreak of the
world war has to its credit more
effective. constructive and remedial
legislation than the Republican party
had placed upon the statute books
in a generation"
Praising the administrators
course in the war he said: I'VE
fought a great war, for a great
cause and we had g leadership that
carried America to greater heights
of honor and power and glory than
she has ever known before in her
entire history"
ct no one misunderstood us.
These great affairs were carried for
ward under the stimulus of American
patriotism, supported by the courage
and spirit of our people. All this is
freely and gladly acknowledged, but
surely the time has come when, be-
cause of the calculated criticism and
premeditated calumnies of the OPP
position, We are entitled to call at
tention to the fact that all of these
things were accomplished under the
leadership OF a great Democrat and
of a greater Democratic Administra-
ton. If the Republican leaders are
not able to rejoice with us in this
American triumph they should have
the grace to remain silent. for it does
not lie in the mouths of those who
conducted the Spanish-American war
to indulge in the luxury of criticism"
Referring 20 congressional investi-
cations by smelling committees" he
said that over eighty Investigations
have been made. over two million
dollars wasted and the result has
been TO prove that it was the cleanest
war ever fought in the history of
civilization
The Republican party became so
fixed in its incorrigible habit of con-
ducting investigations that 1t finally
turned to the fruitful task of in
vestigating itself. They discovered
fraud and graft and gross and mex
cusable expenditures. The reveia-
tions disclose the fact that the meet
ing at Chicago was not a convention
but an auction. The highest bidder,
however. did not get the prize. The
publicity which overlook the pro-
ceedings frustrated the initial pIr-
pose. The Chicago convention left
the Democratic party as the sole Gus
todian of the honor of the country"
Peace achievements of the Dem
ocratic party, he asserted. freed
the farmer from the deadening ef-
fects of usurious financial control
Labor was given its Magma Charta
of liberty. Business and finance
were released from the thralldom
of uncertainty and hazard"
The income tax law" he said
relieved our law of the reproach
of being unjustly burdensome to the
poor. The extravagancies and in
equities of the tariff system were
removed and non-partisan tariff
commission created Pan-American-
ism was encouraged and the bread
thus cast upon the waters came
back TO us many fold. Alaska was
opened TO commerce and develop
ment. Dollar diplomacy was de-
stroyed. A corrupt lobby was driven
from the national capital. An ef-
fective seaman's act was adopted.
The federal trade commission was
created. Child labor legislation was
enacted. The parcel post and the
rural free delivery were developed
A good roads bill and rural credits
act were passed. A secretary OF
labor was given seat in the cabi-
net of the President. Eight hour
laws were adopted. The Clayton
amendment to the Sherman anti
trust act was passed. freeing Amer
lean labor and taking it from the
list of commodities. The Smith
Lever bill for the improvement OF
AGRICULTURAL conditions was passed
A corrupt practices act was adopt
ed. A well considered warehouse
act was passed. Federal employ
ment bureaus were created. Farm
loan banks, postal savings banks
and the federal reserve system were
established.
The federal reserve system,
passed over the opposition of the
leaders of the Republican party, en-
abled America to Withstand the
strain of war without shock or panic
and ultimately made our country
the greatest creditor nation of the
world
Turning to the record of the Re-
publican congress since 1918. Mr..
said it was barren of
shameless in waste of
time and money and without paral-
lei for its incompetencies, failures
and repudiations."