The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-02
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
 AND IRISH PLANK

grace the nation. We advocate the
 imme ediate ratification of the treaty
 without reservations which would i'm
 pair its essential integrity; but do not
 oppose the acceptance of any reserva-
 tions making clearer or more specific
 the obligations of the United States
 to the league associates.
 Only by doing this may we retrieve
 the reputation of this nation among
 the powers of the earth and recognize the moral leadership which President
 Wilson won and which Republican
 politicians at Washington sacrificed.
 Only by doing this may we hope to
 aid effectively in the restoration of
 order throughout the world and to
 take the place which we should as-
 sume in the front rank of spiritual,
 comm mercial and industrial advance
 ment. We reject utterly vain, if not
 vicious, the Republican assumption
 that ratification of the treaty and
 membership in the League of Nations would in any way impair the integrity or independence of our country. The fact that the covenant has been en- tered into by 29 nations all as jealous of their independence as we are of ours. is a sufficient refutation of such charge. The president repeatedly has declared, and this convention reaf- firms, that all our duties and ob1iga- tions as a member of the league must be fulfilled in strict conformity with the constitution of the United States. ! embodied in which is the Fundamental requirement of declaratory action. by the Congress before this nation may become a participant in any war. | IRELAND.
 l The great principle of national self l determination has received constant f-ai faro fjoy, of fIo i14 ol,f1 tives- for which this country entered the war and victory established this principle. Within the limitations of interna- ttonal comity and usage this conven- ton repeats the several previous ex- pressions of the sympathy of the Dem ocratic party of the United States for the aspirations of Ireland and self government.
 Labor and Industry The Democratic party now is, as ever, the firm friend of honest labor and promoter of the progressive in- dustry. It established the depart
 ment of labor at Washington end a Democratic president called to his Of ficia1 council board the first practical workingman who ever held a cabinet
 portfolio. Under this administration have been established employment bureaus to bring the man and the job together; have been peaceab1y de- termined many bitter disputes be- tween ca pita1 and labor; were pass ed the child labor act, the working mems compensation act (the e1<ten- sion of which we advocate SO as to include laborers engaged in loading and unloading ships and in interstate commerce), the eight hour law, the act for vocational training and a code of other wholesome laws affecting the liberties and bettering the conditions of the laboring classes. In the de- partment of labor the Democratic [ administration established a won1an's- bureau, which a Republican congress destroyed by withholding appropria-- tions.
 Labor is not a commodity; it is hu- man. Those who labor have rights; and the national security and safety depend upon a just recognition of
 those rights and the conservation of the strength of the workers and their families in the interest of sound hearted and sound headed men, wom- en and children. Laws. regulating hours of labor and conditions under which labor is performed, when pass | ed in recognition of the conditions ] under which life must be lived to at 1 tain the highest development and happiness, are just assertions Of the national interest in the welfare of the people.
 | At the same time the nation depends upon the products of labor: cessation continued, disaster The whole people ! threfore have. right to insist that tcontlnue1 on Page six-1