The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09

eSty which marked 1t, for the absence of unfortunate scandal, and for the splendid unity of action which ex- tended to every position of the ma tion. It would, therefore, not only serve little purpose but would con for mill to our high standards if any
 person should in the heat of politi
 cal rivalry seek to manufacture po-
 litical advantage out of a nationally
 conducted struggle We have seen things on too large a scale to listen
 in this day to trifes, or to believe in the adequacy of trifing men,
 It is that same vision of the bigger
 outlook of national and individual
 life which will, I am sure, lead us
 to demand that the men who repre-
 sent us in the affairs of our govern
 ment shall be more than politicians
 or the errand boys of politicians
 that they shall subordinate always the
 individual ambition and the party ad-
 vantage to the national good. In
 the long run the true statesman and
 the honestly forward looking party
 will prevail.
 Even as the Nation entered the
 war for an ideal, so it has emerged
 from the war with the determination
 that the ideal shall not die. It is idle to pretend that the War Declara- ton of April 9th, 1917, was a mera
 act of self defense, or that the object of our participation was solely to de- feat the military power of the Gen. tral Nations of Europe. We knew them as a Nation, even as we know today, that success on land and sea could be but half a victory. The other half is not won yet. To the cry of the French at Verdun: 'They shall not pass ;the cheer of our own men in the Argonne: ''They shall go through"-we must add this, ''It shall not occur again. This is the posi- tive declaration of oun wills; that the world shall be saved from a repeti- ton of this crime. To this end the democratic party offers a Treaty of Peace, which, to make it a real treaty League of Nations; because this peace treaty, if our best and braves1 are not to have died in vain, must be no thin1y disguised arnnistice de vised by cynical statesmen to mask their prepara tions for a renewal oi greed inspired conquests later on Peace must mean peace that will , last. A practical, workable, perma. | nent, enforcible kind of a peace that | will hold as tightly as the business | contracts of the individual. We must 1ndeeO De, aDOVe all thin gS | business like and practical in thi. peace treaty making business of ours l The League of Nations is g. practica | solution of a practical situation.
 is no more perfect than our origina Constitution, which has been amend. ed IS times and will soon we hope l be amended the 18th, was perfect. I 1 is not anti-National, it is anti-war | No super-naton, binding us to tn, decisions of it's tribunals is suggest 1 ed, but the method and machinery bz
 which the opinion of civilization ma. | become effective against those wht ] seek war is at least within the reacl | of humanity. Through it we ma,
 with nearly every other duly consti
 tuted government in the whole worlt | throw our moral force and our DO
 tentia1 power into the scale of peace | That such an object should be con
 trary to American policy is unthink
 able; but if there be any citizen wh, has honest fears that it may be per | verted from it's plain intent so as t. l conflict with our esta blished forn l of government, it will be simple t, | declare to him and to the other ma