The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-26
CUMMINCSTELLS
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 Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 25.-En- thusiaSm continues to mark the tour of Homer s. Cummings through New Mexico. His address here tonight was frequently punctuated with cheers by an audnence which packed the largest auditorium in the city, every refer ence to the prosperity of the country under the Democratic administration | being received with boiSterouS ap- 1 plause. He said in part:
 We live in a. world which today is l testing. by every possible standard, not only men and measures and par | ties, but institutions and forms of gov- | ernment. That America and Ameri- | can leadership will meet his test and l emerge triumphantly, I have no shadow of doubt. I sometimes think, l that as an aftermath of the war, we i have come upon a period of unjustih- l able pessimism. We find critics 1 everywhere in a land which was never I before so prosperiouS. During our l control of the government we placed upon the statute books, more useful and constructive legislation than the Republican Party had placed there l in a generation.
 We have made the Income Tax a permanent part of the revenue pro- ducing agencies of the government. l We cured the inequitieS of our tariff system; we established a non-partiSan tariff commission Pan-Americanism was encouraged; dollar diplomacy de- stroyed; the Clayton Act passed, taking labor forever out of the cate ated Federal Employment Bureaus. We made a place in the cabinet for Secretary of Labor. The Philippine achievement bill has brought prosperity to the Philippine Islands, and has set its people on the road to freedom and self-government, thereby removing the need for military con- troL We created the Federal Trade Commission. We passed child labor legislation.
 We established a Rural Credits Act and a Farm Loan Banking System. We passed the Snith-Lever Bill for the improvement of agricultural con ditions, and we established the Fed eral Reserve System So admirable have these acts been in optratlon. and so quickening have been their effects upon industry and commerce, that there is not a, man in public life today who has the courage to rise and ask for their repeal in whole or in part.
 The Republican management is rendering small service to America when it seeks to convert the machin- cry of it's organization into an in strument of attack upon American leadership and American honor. When the history of this great period is written, it will be shown as a golden era of American achievement, Amer icans statesmanship and American honor.
 Only progressive and farseeing to Gond bsr preIen haxe paee bP9ug6f of honor and power. and yet, the very men who have stood in the way of all these measures of progress, are the ones who are now criticising the conduct of the war and the activi- ties of the American President.
 The crucial test of those who dis cuss the League of Nations consists in the attitude which they disclose. l Ie 1n Jf11Io L I helpful, or is it partisan and critical? i Is the purpose constructive or de- l structive? Is an honest attempt being made to forward this great hamper those who are engaged in the work that the whole plan may fall into confusion and become 1 ineffective?
 Senator Lodge set forth a year ago to make the Treaty of Peace a partisan issue. He has never de- viated from that course. At a time when every instinct of fairness pleaded for the who1e-hearted sup port of the President political an- tagonisms and personal envy con | trofled the anti-administraEtion | forces.
 Two years ago. when the Presi- dent of the United States met the House and Senate in joint session, ] he laid before an enthusiastic audi
 
 | stituted the cause for which America was fighting, and the purpose that should be borne in mind including T peace. The last and most important of these 14 points was the creation of the League of Nations. The House and the Senate applauded the message and the storm of applause swept throughout the country. For eight months, not a voice was raised in protest against it, and it was upon these terms that Germany laid down her arms The platform of dae,e the Republican e fd n Party of 1s1s @ had platform of the Progressive Party declared for the settlement, by ar. bitration, of disputes between na, tions, The Democratic platform of Nations. The Senate of the United States, on August 2s, 1916 passed by unanimous vote, th' following resolution: '"The Presiden
 is authorized and requested to invit
 at an appropriate time not late
 than the close of the war in Flu rope, all the great governments 0
 the world to send representatives t
 with the duty of formulating
 plan for a court of arbitration, 0
 other tribunal, to which dispute
 alestions between nations shall b
 full settlement and to consider tn
 question of disarmament and sut
 init their recommendations to thet
 respective governments for aE
 proval" Senator Lodge himse
 said, in the Forum Magazine in a
 article entitled War Work of Cor
 gress'': ''The President who de1iy
 cred the war message and Cor
 gress who voted for war would b
 guilty of the blackest crime if the
 were willing to make a peace o
 the status quo ante beIlum and re
 create the situation which existe l
 armies and our young men abroa
 to be killed and wounded in Nortt
 ern France and in Flanders with T
 result but this, our entrance int
 war with such an intention was al crime which nothing can justif 9 The intent of Congress and the il