Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-30

| brought QedUn to all WuO nave lOuSASu II in the past, will be tried again. We know that the ethics of economic liberty are as sound as those of the Ten Command nents; but a great many men apparent l ly have forgotten that both must be practiced by those who preach them, if they are to hold their place in the world. Right in front of us, now, are colossal debts and enormous current expenses which must be met. There are also vast and complicated industrial activities to be regulated as well as protected. The health and safety of one hundred and five millions of reople are becoming more and more a maeter of national concern. The government cannot make men hon est or industrious or economical, but it can set a good example instead of a very bad one,
 The democratic party insists that be- cause the billions which were lost during
 and since the war were not stolen. their leadership should not be disturbed. Ac
 cording to the democratic press, it was
 an innocent and very successful attempt to secure nothing for somethng-just a case of the separation of a fool from his money, and, as the fool happened to be. in the public service, no harm has been done.
 Democrats Fear Disclosures.
 No discerning man should be deceived as to the real issue in this campaign, in so far as the democratic party is con cerned The most significant thing in
 this whole controversy is the manifest
 determination of the democratic leaders to defeat, if possible republican candi- dates for the senate in normally close ) states Their big guns and poisonous Hampshire, Indiana, New York and , Utah. Are they doing this to save Ar ttcle 10 which they know cannot be . saved, or are they doing it to prevent , the confirmation of republican cabinet r officers who will open the closets of their predecessors and tell the public what they find there?
 Legions of Democratic Office Holders
 There are now more than seven hun . dred thousand employees in the govern
 ment service, nearly one hundred thous-
 and in Washington alone. More than , three times as many as there were before
 the war, and the war ended nearly two
 years ago. Is it the almighty dollar
 counted in billions that those men are
 drawing from the public treasury that
 the democratic party Is anxious about, or
 is it our moral obligation to defend the territorial integrity of the Republic ot
 Hedjaz? Under these conditions what f help can be expected from democratic leadership in domestic affairs?
 The federal trade commission has am , pie authority to | n the books of the a coal operators ana carriers and ascertain
 if there has been collusion ill fixing the :, price of coal. The. attorney general ir a cooperation with the federal trade com i mission, could and should have found out I the real cause of the threatened shortage
 of coal and let the people in New Eng
 land know whether it is due to clandes- /; tine monopoly or legitimate conditions
 have written the attorney general severa
 times about the matter and have received polite replies and that is all. Nothinf 70 has been done of real value or conse. IQuence. The attorney general, himself seems to be too busy making speeches
 against my colleague to give any atten
 tion to the duties of his office.
 Unmerited Abuse of Brandegee. y Is it to be wondered at that nobody ir r Maine voted the democratic ticket wht l was physiologically capable of votin, , any other ticket? Men and women wht c are not blinded by party zeal, or pride O. = opinion, or personal animosities, fully re D alize that now is the time for those who it love their country to stand together ant e vote a straight republican ticket; espec l. ially in Connecticut where all the candi t dates are known to be men of ability ant Q courage.
 : If my colleague gets the support h deserves he will run ahead of his ticket
 and l do not say this in ,disparagement o of any other republican candidate fo rel state or federal office. On the contrary a they are all men of the highest integrit! IS and ability. l mention Senator Brande l. gee as especially deserving support, be y, cause he has been subjected to unmerit
 ed abuse and misrepresentation = This is the week when the political as ,e sassins expect to get in their work I'm IS democratic leaders know that they can ; not win by fair means, and they alst Il know that canards do more harm tha1 Il good if started in time for exposure be If fore election.
 al The most important item in the ir }" dictment against my colleague is his vot
 against the child labor bill, notwitf t standing the bill has been held unconst T. tutional by the supreme court. S, If his democratic critics had read th IT platform utterances of their own part 5, on this subject they might have been l. little more careful The republican pla g. form comes out squarely for "A Feeder:
 Child Labor Law" and for it's rigid CT $ forcement. It even goes further an st says: If the present law be found un le constitutional or ineffective, we shall see y, other means to enable congress to prs lg vent the evils of child labor"
 lg Crafty Democratic Platform. io The democratic platform of 1920 craf ~ fly relegates all direct legislation on u
 subject to the states in the followin
 language:
 ). s"We urge cooperation with the stat g. for the protection of child life throug