The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-13
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 Danbury, Oct. 13-There were big times here last night. The K. of c. had a great parade and dinner, and the Democrats a great League Of Ma tions rally in City Hall. which was addressed by Miss Ida Tarbell, the United States Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, who led the forces for the treaty in the Senate chamber of his country.
 Miss Tarbell rises in speech to the stature she has attained with the pen. Women bring to public debate the qualities of maternity. They speak not in anger, but in sorrow, when there is something to correct. They give praise freely, and make allow ances for the defects in their oppon- ents.
 Miss Tarbell brought more than the normal amount of womanly sweet ness into Danbury's City Hall, ana pleaded for the league with an ele- quence that made hundreds Of votes among those who had been doubting-
 MT. Hitchcock made a speech fully equal to the eloquent address he del1V- cred in Bridgeport. which was hearo by a large number of Danbury folk.
 The chairman of the evening was D. S. Sanford of Bedding. the noted educator, who without exceeding the rule which imposes a time limit upon the presiding officer, argued cogently for the league, as a measure hu- mane, Christian and necessary.
 MT. Sanford said:
 .eWe are within three weeks of cleo tion day and it behooves us to fix our eyes on the main issue, the great dominant issue above everything else that ought now to command our at tention and it grows increasingly clear as the critical day grows nigh that that issue stands out divested of mis- representation. All that vague crit icism stands on and two facts stand out with unmistakable ,clearness; first, that the League of Nations is not the work of one man.
 "Of course it was master mlnd we respect and reverence that saved that document, but now the Iacts are apparent that all that criticism which said that counsel would not be taken was untrue We know that it com- manded the efforts Of the best mlnds of Europe and America. We know that MT. Taft, MT. Wickersham, MT. Root and MT. Hughes among others all had a part in framing that Cov- enant We know that our much maligned President accepted thelr suggestions.
 embodied in the document. Five out of seven of MT. Hughes suggestions are emb odied in the Covenant. Let us dispose of that falsehood once TOT all.
 The second great fact that stands out clear is that the League constitutes no break with the best traditions or America. but is rather the fulhllment of the promise heard at the creation of our government. All through our foreign relations there runs with scarcely a break, a. golden thread or justice. of humanitarianism and of a1truism. Look where you wi will through all the record or our Tor eign relations and you will find a foreshadowing of this, the fulhllment Of Americas mission to the world. s"What was the Monroe Doctrine | but the first authoritative statement 1 of self-determination of the western 1 hemisphere. What are We doing now "That doctrine of which we are so proud as the most characteristic i principle of Americanism has been ur | to this time hemispherical. We are | trying to make it spherical to include 1 the whole world. What does our open door policy in the Far East mean 1 but the same idea What has Amer ica stood for?
 | ooh, don't be deceived by people 1 saving American for Americans! Let us have done with idealism! Ii | America loses her idealism, God helE | her It is unthinkable that the coun- ! try of Lincoln should be deaf to the cry of humanity no matter where il comes from. Europe needs us but more than we need Europe.
 "We have two here who can speak l auth horitatively on the subject that
 interests us most. The first speaker
 will be lady who has spent her life | in working for humanity. She has | trained her mind by labor and ser 1 vice. she is the biographer of Lincoln she has written the most authorita-
 tive. the most readable interpretation