The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14

as Senator Knox, speaking in the Senate on the 18th day of Aug ust, said:
 f'It is Indeed g. hard and cruel peace that this treaty sttpulates, and have no objection to it's be- ing sd, but see no reason why we, who do not partake in it's spells, should become parties to its harshness and cruelty"
 That untterance by 8 responsi- ble leader of the Republican party was quickly conveyed in the German language to every voter in America whose heart was supposed to be still in the land of his descent, in the belief that it would SO poison his mind against the Democratic party as to line him up as certain Re- publican asset in November.
 Did the un-Anerican cu1tiva- ton of hyphenate politics stop there? By no means. The Peace Treaty had undertaken certain tasks relating to nations border ing on the Adriatic, some of which were not pleasing to D. Annunzio and other Italians. Be-
 
 bate the treaty a propaganda was undertaken in this country to try to array the Italian voters against the party of the Prest- dent because he had not agreed at all points with our Italian friends and allies.
 I speak not of the merits of the policy.
 It is the dangerous and un- American campaign of an appeal to American voters to govern their political action in Ameri- ca because of sentiment in Italy, which Is the crime of certain Re- publican leaders that arouses the indignation of all true Ameri- cans and cries aloud for national condemnation.
 It did not stop with unho1y appeal to voters of Italian blood, supposed to place Italian inter ests above loyalty to America. There had not been full agree nent at Paris with our Greek friends over Thrace.
 What happened?
 Other Republican politicians went among the Greeks and sought to incite them to indigna- tion against the President and counsel1ed the Greeks to vote the Republican ticket because the President, who had given every proof of friendship and fairness toward that country ever dear to us, had not in every particu- lar urged every claim that Greece presented.
 To Austrians in America the appeal is made that the presi- dent had partitioned their coun- try and had not approved all Austrian aspirations.~
 To the Poles that, while he led periodically in the re-birth of the glorious new Poland, the President might have done even more for immediate reconstruc- ton, and therefore the Poles ought to let themselves he herd ed in the Republican camp.
 To the Hungarians and men of other natioralities they counsel1ed opposition to the Democratic party for any trumped up req son appealing to European ideas which political venom and ami mostly could suggest.
 But this pro-hyphen politics, to which they look to win the Presidency in 1920, did not stop with appeals to the foreign-bor who are supposed to love another country more than they love America It Is shrewdly, cov- ertly, insidious1y, and unworth- fly organized and financed. It went still further. In effect it's proponents whispered to them selves: "If we can corral all the voters who favored the Central Empire and did not get every thing the country of their 1an- guage desired at Paris, we must still have other sources from which to draw votes to offset the losses which playing to hy- phens will invite-' To what other sources for votes do they look?
 The number of natura1ized English and French voters is comparatively small, but the propaganda to round up their vote for a Republican candidate has gone forward. Have you not heard Republican politicians
  because he did not accept the largest early demand of France and Great Britain.
 1 These politicians are all things I to all men in the prosecution o1 l hyphenated campaign destruc tive of the Americanism of whicI i Andrew Jackson was the mos l conspicuous representation O. his period.
 | With one tune supposed Brit ish desires are courted and witt 1 another Irish hostility to Brit ish policies is whispered in tn ears of those to whom they thinl l it will be pleasing.
 From the day of that fight1n
 Irishman, Andrew Jackson, tn
 bulk of the free loving and in dependent Irish who have foun
 homes in America, have affi1iat
 ed with the Democratic part
 and have had large share in tn
 councils which have made it tn
 hope of those who think an 1 those who labor.
 i Republican politicians under
 stand the Irish so little that the
 suppose their own sudden pre-
 tended and violent criticism (
 Great Britain will lure the Iris
 vote into the cold and inhospit
 able Republican camp. It hs
 been said that within an hot
 after an Irishman reaches Amer
 ica he becomes a lifelong Amer i ican citizen.
 Their devotion to liberty, the |