The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-11


 II territory and to impose its will on I other peoples for the purpose of se- curing commercial supremacy For ii fifty years our government, Germany, Great Britain and Japan have been keen competitors for commercial supremacy in the markets of the 1 world. Commerce is at the bottom of nearly all wars.
 There is an economic side to the League of Nations, and I want the business men to understand that III particular. If we stand aloof from | 5he nations of the world, what is going to- be our position ecpnomic- ally? If they are Joined together ] and we stand apart7with a chip on
 with them and cannot expect favora- ble treatment from them when our ships go into foreign ports. Com ereial America willspay the price for -four failure to enter the League.
 If we do not enter, with seven eighths of the world already in, it means that we will have to maintain
 the largest army in the, world, the people we will have to pay the larg- est taxes in the world Have you
 thought of the cost of the war2 The
 cost the nations engaged in the con Ifict incurred was one hundred and eighty-six billions of dollars, the cost
 to our own government twenty-six
 billions, andA in addition toss that we loaned our associates in he war S9,- i 800, 100000. At the beginning of the
 war we were spending million dol Jars an hour. anC at the close of the
 war two million dollars an hour. .Ths.
 war cost us more money from April
 of 1917 to the fall of 1918 than the
 cost of running the government from 179S to 1917 on the day We declared
 war. This one war cost us more than
 the revolutionary war would have cost | had it been conducted for a period Of
 one. thousand years. Do you realize
 what that means? We had an in- l Ioar los rxf Chr ! of every dollar paid in 70 the United
 States Treasury 92c was applied to-
 wards repayment of war expenses
 and Sc for the expenes necessary to
 main ain our government in normal
 tiQ4es. That is what 1t means. Nine
 ty-two cents on the dollar for war
 debt and eight cents for normal obli-
 gations! IL means a huge army anc
 taxes
 l. I believe we are going into a
 League of Nations no matter what
 these men say. MT. Lodge on the
 Senate floor was in favor of a league.
 He was in favor of the league pro
 sented by the president of the United which he offered Other men who . are out on the platform, including
 MT. Harding, were in favor of a league with certain reservations. MT.
 a league. MT. Roosevelt, shortly be-
 fore he died, said he was in favor of
 league
 MT. Wickersham, fromer Republi-
 can attorney general, is a cha ampion of
 the league. A committee of interna-
 tional lawyers appointed by the Amer
 ican Bar Association. all of the com
 mittee Republicans I think, unani-
 mously reported in favor of league.
 including leading Republican jour-
 nals.
 The United States Senate is the
 most powerful representative body in | l~
 -ernment each state sent two men to - the United States Senate so we mu,st depend on ninety-siX men here to do : our business. We are dependent on those ninety-six men to say whether we go into the league or not. You U ' or 1 have nothing to say about that except insofar as we use our votes { in the selection of those ninety-siS y men and in the selection of a Presi- . dent. [: MT. Brandegee has represented this -e state in the United States Senate fol e the past fifteen years. When MT ' Brandegee votes yes, evefy man and woman in the state of Connecticut r. votes yes. when MT. Brandegee votes
 no, every man and woman in the r state of Connecticut votes no. Wher s, MT. Brandegee gives expression to d official utterances on the Senate fiool '- such as those read to you by Mrs = Sanford, every man and woman il h the state of Connecticut gives utter n ance to those sentiments, because he # is your official spokesman on tho T. floor of the United States Senate, an6 Il it is through him that we speak ano l. We vote on<questionS before the Sen d ate. We have no other way. Ina Is is our system of government.
 ol What I have to say about MT. Bran Ie degee has to do with MT. Brandeget if officially and not with MT. Brandeget if personally. During the 1 , years tha r. he has been in the United States Sen ts ate, he has voted against every bit O n progressive legislation when the Re l- publicans were in power and wheI
 we were in power.
 t. l You ladies feel and feel rightly tha sr you ought to have right to say wht T. your United States. senator shall be ,e but when the question came up in thu is United States Senate, shall the peopl a of the country have the privilege o T. voting for their United States sen ar ators, or shall they be selected by tn h general assemblies, Mir. Brandege g. voted that the people should not hav T. the right to express their views in tn T. selection of United States senators le Shortly after that man namet in tLorimer was elected by the genera ar assembly of the state of Illinois to tn y position of United States senator. Tn le people of the city of Chicago said tha Id MT. Lorimer bought his seat in tn ln United States senate and that he pro a. cured it through corruption. A com i'll miteee of the United States -senat es voted in favor of hearing as t
 
 y, bought his seat. When that hquestio Id came up for consideration, your sen ed ator and my senator, Mr. Frank E be Brandegee, voted no let us not tr 7n Mir. Lorimer. MT Lerimer was trie O and found guilty and unseated, >al It though MT. Brandegee voted to sea
 MT. Lorimer.
 n- The question came up as to whethe he or not child labor should be permitte ou in the factories of the south NJ Of Brandegee voted against doing ava pt with child labor
 e. On the bill to establish the child he ren's bureau at Washington whic a has been so. efficiently administere e. by Miss I-athrop MT Frank Rr Rrar to degee spoke against the esta blfsf ill ment of that bureau.
 be Engineers compelled to work si, ke teen or eighteen hnurS at o s+ra+cl