The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-09
KIRK TELLS
 WOMEN WHAT ALL SHOULD KNOW Inspiring Address By Man Who Helped Nominate
 Cox for the Presi- dency. Puts Finger on Weakness of G. O. P. Bunk and Points
 Out Only Hope for
 TraIapd

William P. Kirk, foremost business man, delivered a most impassive ad- dress at the meeting of the Demo- l, cratic women of the Eighth district last night.
 MT. Kirk, who as d delegate to the San Francisco convention helped nom- inateAGov. Cox, was introduced as a
 business man who would give the business viewpoint on the issues or the day. He said in part:
 ''The men that Roosevelt denounced in 1912 are again in control or the Republican party and they have con ferred the nomination for President on that poor old gentleman, Senator
 Harding. If we have to have Re- publican President, what a pity we haven't a real man like Leonard Wood or Governor Lowden.''
 After quoting at length the attack on Republican reactionaries for lead ing their party away from the ideals of Lincoln, Mckinley and Roosevelt made by Presid ident-Emeritus Eliot of
 Harvard, MT. Kirk denounced the Re- publican Congress for it's action in ig noring the appeal of President Wilson to repeal the burdensome provisions
 of the income tax in these words:
 When the Republican Senate and Republican Congress convened, Pres ident Wilson sent to that body, the law-making body and the only body that can change the income tax law, messa geS to take up various aspects of our social and economic life, and urged that the income tax law, a war emergency law passed under the stress of war, be amended and new income tax daw passed on the basis of the experience of the workings of that law. To this day this Republi- can Congress has failed to pass a peace time income tax law, but are still trying to incite unrest among the people by holding grimly onto the old law with it's burdesnome restrictions nn hI1GT n1ry in peace times. The Republican Con- gress knows how nettlesome these war provisions of the income tax Law are, and how they aggravate the feelings of business men who were perfectly willing to bear with them while war was on. They have deliberately kept that law on the statute books and hampered business in this country for the purpose of aggravating the feelings of business, in the vain hope that they could shift the blame for that action on President Wilson.
 That masterpiece of evasion, the Republican platform, even evades a single reference to the glorious part our soldiers and sailors played in the war, ignores the sacrifices of the fam flies who deprived themselves so that we might win the war, and why ?
 Simply because in their blind hatred
 of President Wilson they couldn't praise the army and navy for fear
 that some of the glory would be re- f1ected on the part President Wilson played in leading them.
 The Republicans are appealing to
 race prejudice in every possible way
 to win votes for their ticket. They
 have played the racial hatreds of
 Poles against @ Russians. Germans against French, they have deliber- ately sacrificed war-torn France for political gain. All those we learned to lump under the term pro-German no hain tn strike blindly against the Democratic party. Members of every European nationality are being appealed to for votes on the ground that their coun-
 tries didn't get a slice of some other country's territory at the peace con- ference and that the Democratic party must be punished for it. They denounce President Wilson for not doing the impossible in the Irish question, and under the leadership of Senator Harding they refuse to have ] anything to do with tie only organ ization that can place Ireland's cause l before the bar of the world.
 | We who are sane on the Irish | question know that President Wilson | could not free Ireland at the peace | conference. He was there to sit down 1 With his colleagues and decide about | the enemy countries who had been ! engaged in war against us, but he
 did all lie could when he provided in
 
 | league on his own suggestion for the
 cansc of Ireland the provision that | any question which threatened the peace or security of the world could
 De brought before the league. There
 and there alone is Ireland's oppor- | tunity.
 When Cox was asked direct l question, What will you do for Ire | land.' he answered like a man, T will | bring tho cause of Ireland before the League of Nations.' He couldn't gc | to war for Ireland; very few of us
 much as we love Ireland, would go tc
 war for her. What did Mir. Harding
 say when he was finally cornered SC
 that he couldn't dodge any longer | He said he considered the Irish ques-
 tion a domestic question for England 1 alone and that we couldn't meddie l He said We gave her a vote of sym | pathy in the Senate when the record | shows that he voted on fGur resolu tions for the cause of Ireland in tn, l Senate and on the final vote he wasn