New Britain herald., 1920-08-09
CANDIDATE PAYS
 TRIBUTE TO COX
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must indeed be. a>ove all things. bus mess like and practical in this peace treaty making business of ours. The League of Nations is a practical So- lution of a practical situation. It is no more perfect than our original Constitution. which has been amend ed s times and will soon we hope. be amended the 18th, was perfect It is not anti-national. it is anti-war. No super-nation, binding us to the de- cisions of its tribunals is suggested, but the method and machinery by which the opinion of civilization may become effective against those who seek is at least within the reach of humanity Through it. we may with nearly every other duly consti tuted government in the whole world throw our moral force and our poten tial power into the scale of peace. That such an object should be con- trary to American policy is unthinil able; but if there be any citizen who has honest fears that it may be per verted from its plain intent so as to conflict with our established form of government, it will be simple to declare to him and to the other na- tions that the Constitution of the United States is in every way su- preme. There must be no equivoca- tion. no vagueness, no doubt dealing with the people on this issue. The league will not die. An idea does not die which meets the call of the hearts of our mothers.
 How to Get Peace.
 So too with peace War may be "decIared", peace cannot It must be established by mutual consent, by a meeting of the minds of the parties in interest. From the practical point of view alone a peace by resolution of congress is unavoidable. From the point of view of the millions of splendid hope of days of peace for future generations, a peace by reso- lution of congress is an insult and denial of our national purpose.
 Today we are offered a seat at the table of the family of nations tS the end that smaller people may be truly safe to work out their own destiny, to the end that the sword shall not follow on the heels of the merchant, to the end that the burden of in- creaseing armies and navies shall be lifted from the shoulders of a world already staggering under the weight of taxation. We shall take that place. l say so because I have faith faith that this nation has no selfish destiny, faith that our people are looking into the years beyond for better things, and that they are not afraid to do their part.
 Needs of the Nation.
 Among the most pressing of these national needs l place the bettering of our citizenship the extension of teaching to over 5.OO0.0 900 of our population above the age of ten wno illiterate, the strengtheninS of our imm gra ton laws to exclude the physically and morally unfit, the 1m- provement of working conditions es- pecially in the congested centers. the extension of communications to make rural life more attractive the fur tfler protection of child life and of women in industry
 First of all the methods of the leg islative branch of the National gov ernment, especially in the upper house require drastic changes. If is safe to say that the procedure of the congress has progressed less with the time than in any other business body congress that every executive de- partment must wait Appeals to ,he