The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
IF MEXICO GOES IN
 ANDHARDlNGWARS
 ON MEXICO, WHAT?

of the world, finds fault because we must take our places as the leaders of the world, that we not only believe ourselves to be but we are the leaders of the people of the world. Where are they now, gentlemen? Under the i bed. You can see Henry Cabot Lodges heels sticking out and you can see Herbert Hoover and William H. Taft. trying to pick the feathers oH their coats Scandalous, infamous, and yet that lie, that misrepresenta- tion that cowardly scuttle stands for ward now being the opinion of the United States. It doesn't seem possl- ble. It doesn't seem credible that we should have to stand here and apolo- gize for victory, apologize for success. But we know from where the root of | it comes. Not many of you saw ] probably the opening sentence Of the speech with which Root opened the campaign four years ago: That the Democrats should retire in this period of crisis and give way to those or us who knew how" What ails them is we didn't give way to those who knew how, but we showed them we did know how and they are biting them selves today as a rattlesnake bites his own tail when he can't bite anything else. Let me call your attention to one | phase of the League of Nations that the senator has overlooked. He said l it is cooperation. That is true. But what our Republican friends are try ing to make out of it is combination All the difference in the world be- tween cooperation and combination. l Democracy is cooperation. Republl- canism is combination. Cooperation is to help somebody. Combination is to do nobody.
 In those two words you have the l whole case. Are we a party of CO., operation and as @ party of co-opera- tion coming before the country do we seek the votes of the people of Con- necticut asking them to intelligently in nrte do we join in a combination to keep Frank Brandegee as senator, and does he join with a combination of sinister l influences to keep those interests in power? Those of you who know the interests of the State of Connecticut know who MT. Brandegee's employers are. Your Brandegees, your Penroses and your Mark Hannas of the old days, all of you know what that means. We haven't had that under Democratic administrations.
 . A Republican once said to me: . Democrats are never bought, be- cause they never had anything to sell: that those who had something to sell always found purchasers" What l have we before us now? What do the Republicans offer? Not a patri- otic movement, not a movement to stop war, not movement to do jus tice, but the holding out as bribe of the assurance of prosperity Was prosperous? Were the martyrs of the church prosperous? Yet this das- tardly poster spread over our walls says: Let us assure our prosperity" What has government to do with prosperity? Government is honor, government is protection, it isn't busi- ness
 MT. Harding has said that just as soon as he is elected president he will sign the right kind of a treaty as soon as it is passed by a Republican con- gress. A Republican congress can't I Yoo troo A D fo cant pass any treaties. The RepubH- cans have been invoking a force against President Wilson that will | stand against President Harding, if | there happens to be such a man, be- | cause it requires a two-thirds vote to pass treaty through the United States senate, and no matter how this q election goes, there isn't going to be a two-thirds Republican vote in the United States senate, so win or lose we are going to have something Io say.
 MT. Harding says he will not be g deed. The American people will stoE that, and the one-man senate, with its majority of one who is out on bail al present l should like to ask the Re- publican candidate one question. He has expressed himself as opposed tc amnesty of political prisoners. I don't mind saying frankly l am in favor of amnesty for all political prisoners If England and France can do that we can. What I want to ask him i. this:
 Will he take the shackles off Tru man H. Newberry when he lands il Fort Leavenworth?
 He hasn't thought of that? H, may subscribe to the doctrine of al old friend of mine about buying a sea in the United States senate. I can sa. that with perfect safety here becaus Senator Hitchcock is newspape man and couldn't afford anything lik hi ISy.
 bought his place in the senate it wa his'n and railroad could com around and tell him what he ough to do.''
 The opposition speaks as if tn
 United States stood on some sacre p1nnacle of safety armed against tn world by it's wealth, it's mora strength, it's constitution and the Re publican, party. The UnIteH State measured by the logic of world sta tistlcs is in most periIous position
 we are not so vast. There are on hundred and five millions of 1s There are eightly millions to the soutI and sixty or seventy millions to tn north under other governments. w
 have pretended for almost a hundre years that we are guarding the safet of the South American republics
 There is loud outcry about the sa credness of the Monroe doctrine.
 can give you a much briefer detinitio
 Of the Monroe doctrine than the sena
 tor has. Mine is: we will not permi any other nations to lick our neigh
 bors but ourselves That is the tr11f up-to-date Republican doctrine. Yo
 ind it in the Chicago platform vher they grit their teeth at Mexico. Sun posing when Obregon becomes presi
 dent of Mexico he elects to join tn
 League of Nations, and supposing tn people lose their wits, their commo sense and their honor and elect Mi
 Harding president and he remon tstrates with Mexico, and Mexico say
 to the other forty-three members .
 the league, who is going to call ol
 this dog? First-rate dog, but what
 going to happen to the dog?
 In the summer of 1895 we had
 torrent of abuse of President CIeve
 land because he didn't do some thine
 the Henry Cabot Lodges thought h
 ought to do in the Venezuela bonn dary question Wait until eop oro.