Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-09

for the defeats upon MT Wilson and his party.
 League of Nations.
 Nobody knows what the league of na- tions plank in the democratic plat form means, but experience teaches us that it will be construed to mean any thing that happens to it after election. If the democratic press and politicians had not been busy for two years abus- ing republicans for telling the truth about it they might have admitted the truth themselves and gone to the polls with a platform declaration susceptible of but one meaning. They literally abus- ed and libeled republicans for their criticisms of MT. Wilson until the time arrived when they had to put him up or do the other thing. They took no chances and mark the prophecy. The time may come when the lion will eat straw like the OK, and the kid will seek the lair of the leopard but never will | the democratic jackass pillow his aching | and bewildered brain upon Article 10 of | MT. Wilson's league of nations What | the republicans can do with it l do not | know It is not easy to make a silken | nurse of materials other than silk. It |
 is well known that the league and treaty | were framed by victorious commanders |
 n-chief in the hour of their victory It WOulu nave D6Su HOlIllIlS SIiOl OI d lliI ace if these men had anticipated all the in fact and fancy that have since occurred and which, in the minds of the leading statesmen of Europe, have already condemned the ambitious docu
 ment executed at Versailles as impossi- ble of operation without alterations. The
 statesmen now speaking for England, France and Italy Concede not only the le- gitimacy but the proprety and wisdom | Af-. Ll- United States in it's insistence that req son and fact would be safer guides to justice and peace than force and the fat uous theories of MT. Wilson's collection of ologsts and eulogists History is mak- Ing fast in Europe today. Boundary lines are changing hourly social entities and groups are rendering their allegiance
 first to one and then to another embryo sovereignty.
 Leadership Trouble With Democrats. The trouble with the democratic party lies in it's leadership. It has been wildly extravagant as well as incompetent. In the construction of buildings required in the preparation for war enormous sums
 of money were thrown away. I have not time to call attention to the long list of ! contracts that were made on the cost | plus basis and the millions of dollars in | excess and useless stuff that has piled up
 to be thrown away or sold for a song at the close of the var I know that time
 was more precious than money. But also know that the refusal of the demo- cratic executive and the democratic con-
 gress to prepare for war when there was plenty of time rendered it necessary to go l it blind later on. If the president had 1 followed the advice of his first secretary l of war MT. Garrison, this would not have l happened. The war would have been won | at least six month earlier than it was
 and cost at least six billion dollars less
 MT Garrison's successor, MT. Baker said that if there was a peace society he did
 not belong to he did not know it he
 also thanked God that we were unpre- 1 pared for war when we were compelled
 to enter it. MT. Wilson and his party
 claimed that a vote for Hughes meant a 1 vote for war and that peace with honor | would be maintained under democratic | administration. It was a most humiIiat- ing experience at home.
 Reciprocal Rights of Capital and Labor.
 The most important item of all at this
 time is the need for every assistance that
 wisely can be given to the protection and interpretation of the reciprocal rights of
 capital and labor. As Mir. Gompers well
 says. there is no conflict between capital
 and labor; the conflict is between the
 capitalist and the laborer. As long as | force is employed to settle these contro-
 versies, loss to both sides and the public ! is inevitable. If we are to secure per manent domestic peace and prosperity, some method must be devised whereby disputes between empl0ye and employer
 can be settled without the aid of the strike or lockout We can never be
 wholly civilized until we find some substi- ute for these relics of barbarism I am a firm believer in state and community
 government, and it is my opinion that the states should lose no time in dealing with
 this subject. If they fail to act in the
 near future, the power to act may be
 taken away. Neither labor or capital will
 find anything in the record of the demo-
 cratic party that promises an intelligent
 grasp or wise conclusions in the treat
 ment of this all important subject Inflated Conditions of Credit.
 As I have before remarked, politica
 expediency has been the guiding star O the democratic party since 1860. It wal
 political expedency that induced Mr Nc
 Adoo to force the banks of the country t,
 purchase and repurchase three billions O
 more of government notes, instead O r raising more money by taxation when tn ] largely responsible for the present infiate, conditions in credit and currency It wa political exDediency that led democrati l congress to lay unscientifc taxes whic they now admit are unscientific an @ should be repealed.
 n As chairman of the senate comr:tte e on banking and currency, I have had oc f casion to observe the ease with whic n many democrats embrace the idea tha y the government has superna tural powe = when it comes to the manufacture an l. distribution of the almighty dollar.
 seems to be congenital in democracy sine n 1873. In 1896 the fiat money mania hit l. few prominent republicans This was th | year when MT. Cummings of Stan1fort e Conn.,. forsook the banner of Fessende l. and reform for that of Bryan and tn r. fifty-cent dollar. I might remark in pass = ing that MT. Cummings has changed h y political prophets too frequently, I thinl 0 for his political advancement. The pec l. pie of Connecticut wisely prefer me l. whose financial and economic views al tt sound and their own, and who have tf n courage to stand by them in all kinds ( l. weather. MT. Cummings will know a r. about this if he runs against my co y league.
 e Praise for Brandegee.
 d MT. Brandegee and I disagree som. 9. times on matters of policy. but it does r ,- necessarily follow that I am always rign '- He is able and reliable and has a hig l. position in the senate. Such men are nor 70 too plentiful in these days. The people ( o Connecticut know this. They admire h
 courage his indifference to abuse and n IS detestation of the arts and wiles of tt l. wabbling politician. and they will re-ele, e him by vote that will surprise his cri q ics.