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

ideals and Illustrate Amerlcan- ism by serving humanity. It must have no-en entangling allt- ances with hyphenated politics. It's appeal must be made to vot- CTS as Americans. IT real Americanisn is to save itself we must frown upon any and all ap- peals for votes based upon the views or policies of any other country under the sun.
 Let me make my meaning plain,
 When the President returned with the Treaty of Peace and the debate began. 1t required only a few days for the dullest to per ceive that it was not to be dis cussed wholly upon its merits, but from the standpoint of whether it would please the Ger u,an-Arnericans, the British Americans, the Irish-Amer1cans, the Italian-Americans and other of foreign descent who have votes in this country which cer- tain politicians must reckon with in November.
 Even before this undemocratic
  itself with reference to the League 1t lifted it's head, and, with a measure of success, in two previous elections. In 1915, though President Wilson and ex- President Roosevelt were as one in warning the people against hy- phen politics as destructive of real Americanism, an organized propaganda was conducted to corral the pro-German vote against the party of the Prest- dent because he had made cer- tain firm demands upon the Im~ periaI German government not pleasing to those Germans who lived and voted in America, but whose heart-home was still in Germany.
 In the temper of that period, before we had gone to war, this alien sentiment, sktllful1y culti- vated by Republican politicians. bore results in votes against the President in 1916.
 But, while effective in certain places, there was reaction in. other parts of the Republic. It failed because it was introducing 8, dangerous and destructive ele- nent in American politics.
 Such un-American conduct when exposed invites defeat and destruction. Its danger is that St works in the dark. If it could eyer succeed it would convert our <bo1itfcal contests into divisions / based upon race, upon prejudice,
 Iv,t tive of the old fashioned Amer our Republic on the tack by ioanism which can alone keep our Republic on the tack by which our fathers steered 1t through unchaTted seas.
 Encouraged, however, by a measure of success which this ansidious and alien propaganda had attained in some parts of the country in 1916, it was more full 1y embraced and carried on with greater skill in the Congressional election of 1918. That election came only 6 few days before the signing of the arnistice.
 Let US recall the speeches of leading Republican orators.
  claimed his fourteen points which had been accepted by the Allies and Lloyd George had said that Germany could have peace any day on Wilson's terms. The Republican spel1-binders won that election by making two opposite appeals, and by false pretense-
 On the one hand. men who wished German autocracy crushed were told that Wilson would make a. soft easy peace with Germany, deserting out al- lies, and leaving Germany un- punished and the Kaiser still dominant in Central Europe. How many voters believed that campaign untruth cannot be known, but it Is certain that it was accepted by more voters ~~N>khan should have been taken tn b it.
 On the other hand, wi1y Re publican politicians. in foreign language propaganda, appealed to pro-Germans and others who loved some other country bet. T ter than they loved America that the Wilson administration Ayvas so. vindtctive that nothing hut the destruction of the whole
 erman people would satisfy tht
 esident- To this they added
 promise that Republican
 hgress would immediately set
 all questions growing out O
 e war and secure stability il
 ustry and confer prosperit,
 on everybody.
 the result? Some voters, know
 bg that Wilson's patience was o he Lincoln type, did not knoy Va1so of his Jacksonian firmnesS and permitted themselves to vot along with the pro-German ele ment and elect a Congress t impede and debate and dodge an postpone the policies essential t give assurance of world peac and future stable conditions.
 You cannot fool all the peopl all the time. It has been nor than a year since that compaig g of contradictions, misrepresents ton and rosy promises we made. What has happened Our Peace Commission hs agreed with the score of nation with which we were sociate in war. the heart of which
 the League of Nations.
 The untrue statement that Wi son would favor such easy tern
 for Germany as to impose I
 punishment stands exposed, al