The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-28
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TREATY DEFEAT BY SENATE BLACK PAGE IN NATIONS HIS TORY-PRAISES WILSON'S LEADERSHIP IN KEYNOTE | SPEECH-TELLS PARTY
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recital of actual performance. It constitutes Democracy's response to the demands of social Justice. It is our answer to the anticipated islander that the Democratic Party Is unable to understand the great affairs of the country.
 Inc Federal Reserve System.
 If the Democratic party had ac- complished nothing more than the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, 1t would be entitled to the enduring gratitude of the nation. This act supplied the country with an elastic currency controlled by the American people. Panics-the recurring phe- nemena of disaster which the Repub- lican party could neither control nor expaain-are now but a memory. Un- der the Republican system there was an average of one bank failure every 21 days for a period of nearly 40 years After the passage of the Fed eral Reserve System, there were. in 1915, four bank failures; in 1916 and 1917, three bank failuress in 1918, one bank failure, and in 1919, no bank failures at all The Federal Reserve System, passed over the op- position of the leaders of the Repub- ncan party, enabled America to with stand the strain of war with out shock or panics and ultimately made our country the greatest creditor nation of the world
 Achievements In War.
 And them the Great War came on- Ultimately, by the logical steps of necessity, our peace-1oving nation was drawn into the conflict The neces- sary war Legislation was quickly sup piled
 A War Finance Corporation was created War Risk Insurance was provided Shipbuilding laws re-estab- nshed America's . supremacy upon the seas The offira of Alien Property Custodian was created A War In dusries Board was established A War Trade Board was created Food and Fuel regulations were formulat- ed- Vast loans were successfully floated- Vocational training was pro- vided- A National Council of Defense was created Industry was success fully mobilized-
 Almost over night, the factories of the nation were made a part of the war machine, and the miraculous re- vival of the shipping industry filled the ocean lanes with our transports
 Our fleet laid the North Sea mine barrage- We sent fighting craft to every sea and brought new courage and inventive genius to the crucial fight against the U-boat-
 In transporting our troops to France, we never lost a. man in a ship conveyed by the American Navy.
 One of the first decisions was be- tween the volunteer system'' and the selective draft Many patriotic citizens strongly deprecated conscrip- ton and dreaded its possibilities The administration, however, placed it's in f1uence behind the measure, secured it's passage, and made possible the winning of the war.
 It proved a democratic system as surfing equal service, equal danger and equal opportunity At one stroke of the pen, bounty jumping, and the hired substitutes that had disgraced the management of the Civil War were made impossible The selection of men to go to the front was placed not merely in the hands of the civil authorities, but actually in the hands of the friends and neighhors of the ID en eligible for service No funda- mental law was ever administered with such scrupulous honor. Not one breath of scandal touched this legis- lation; and soEcheerfully was it ac-
 
 dodger'' is aH epithet of reproach in any community.
 Partisanship was put aside in the selection of General Pershing as leader of our forces and no military commander in history was ever given a freer hand or more unf1agging sup port. The policy of selecting officers through training camps avoided the use of political favorites and guaran- teed competent leadership for the youth of the land Ten million men were registered within three months from the declaration of war and 3c camp cities complete in every munici- pal detail, were built in 90 days. In France, we had to construct our own docks, railroad lines, storage de- pots, hospitals and ordnance bases We had to cut down the forests for our barracks In June, two months after the declaration of war. our fighting men were in France; in Oc- tober Americans were on the firing line- in scarcely more than a year. we had 100000 men in France, had whipped the enemy at Belleau Wood beaten them back at Chateau Thierry wiped out the St. Mihiel salient and delivered the terrific hammer blow al Sedan that virtually ended the war. Less than two years ago, Genera Haig, with the bluntness of soldier
 said: '"The British Army is fighting with it's back to the walP; Lloyc | George was crying: 'fIt is a race be- | tween Wilson and Hindenburg, ano /, France clung like a drowning mar 1 to the Rock of Verdun, turning agon- | ized eyes toward America Ano l America came. We challenge the critics of the Administration to poin | out how, within the limits of human possibility, the war could have beer
 won more promptly or with less los. | of American life. t It was not by mere chance tha l these things were accomplished. Tc readjust the processes of peace so a! | to serve the activities of war requir
 ed leadership of unexamp1ed skill | Petty criticism of minor defects ant l individual officials may for time at | tract superficial attention, but tn, significant things, the great outstand l ing facts plead eloquently for tn, Democratic cause.
 l Let no one misunderstood us. These | great affairs were carried forward | under the stimulus of American pa l fri ho ,,f