Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-22

'vanla, at the republican rally in the town hall Thursday evening brought graphic ally before his audience the political sit uation as it confronts the country today, touching on the league of nations as one l of the principal issues Mir Burke in referring to Article X said that this ar ticle as framed was either a shell or it was dynamite. If it had no meaning, as the democrats claim, it was a shell-but if it had the power that is evident on it's | face it is dynamite, and we want neth- ing of it. In speaking of the presidents | signing os the covenant MT. Burke saod it | va sthe first step of the presidents real | lzation of his dream of being the presi- 1 dent of the world-but instead of being | the first president of the world he stands-I the chance of being the last. democratic | president of American history. No man | has done more to demoralize the demo- | cratic party and reunite the republican | aarty than MT. Wilson, and thank him.
 Mr Burk said in part:
 If the American people want to insure four years of efficient administration of | our government, they must go one step further than the election of Harding and | Coolidge. Confronted as they are with | the solution of the most difficult problems | that ever faced nation in ay four years l of our history, paramount duty is to ! insure the election of a robust republican 1 iildJOIllyl III DOln DE2nClSS Of congress. i An appalling public debt, an unscentifie l system of taxation, a payroll which in
 time of peace borders on a scandal an | army and navy disorganized, a postal sys- | tenn crippled, our foreign affairs drifting | between International contempt on the one hand and open hatred on the other 1 with nation shackled by war statutes
 in time of peace in order to prolong the
 power of an autocrat and pervert the in- 1f &N purposes-an these present a picture in
 dicating the perplexing character of the | grave responsibilities confronting us on
 the 4th day of next March
 The world war left us half these prob
 lens, and democratic incompetency left
 us the other half. To enlarge and inten-
 sify them by prolonging democratic mis-
 management beyond the 4th of March
 would set America back 50 years in her
 progress. Every toiler and every business
 man and woman in America would suffer the consequences.
 The men who in 1776 signed the inn mortal announcement of our independence of European control over new world af- fairs; the men who in the constitutional
 convention in 17S7 .breathed the breath of life into the American republic, and the Senators of the United States who in 1920
 hnaliy prevented the surrender back of , that independence and the impairment of
 our nations sovereignty will be classed by the impartial verdict of history as three of the greatest bodies in the annals !, of a nations life. \ To the spirit of an independent Amer lcan nationality the first gave birth, the
 second crystalized into constitutional form. and the third preserved against de- , struction in the face of a storm of senti- ! mental sophistry that threatened for a time to sweep the American republic from
 her moorings. One of these staIwart Americans was Frank B. Brandegee, who
 should be continued as a credit to Con- ; necticut in the senate of the United u States.
 As a consequence the United States are 2 still free to judge of the merits of the !. worlds controversies and still free to de. ' eide without orders from any combination :, of foreign bosses when we owe a mora, -4 obligation to the world and the manner
 in which we shall meet and discharge It
 Fourteen Points.
 It may be well to keep in mind the in.
 tolerant mental attitude of the presiden q who monopolized the. right to speak fol U the American people, for whom he ha, 7 shown his supreme contempt.
 First By repudiating the Baltmor, u u platform pledging him and his party to Y single presidential term. and prompt, n running second time, and then by hi 'e insistent silence. inviting a third term i ! the San Francisco convention could b
 induced to yield to his vanity.
 ld ld Second. By keeping us from nghtin rs for our own sovereignty and self respec .d until Germany handed Ambassador Ger a. ard note which meant piracy, plunde er and ruthless murder and yielding only t to Americas demands for action when fur n- ther hesitation would have involved in 45 peachment.
 tn Third By denying Theodore Roosevel J. the opportunity to rendSk to his countr at the service of which hf Was capable, an ol shelved Gen. Leonard Wood because c IT, political envy
 n Fourth By demanding that the peopl of elect congress that would not dare h. enbarrass him by any interfering wit
 the free expressions of his own will. " Fifth. By. taking over the telegrap ss and cable lines after the guns wei er stacked, the war was ended and he ha lisl been repudiated. as a consequence nd which the news from America to Euror
 was stif1ed and the old world given u
 impression that his and his alone was u 5 voice of America ' e Sixth By refusing to follow breeder t,sar and forcing himself into conference ,e foreign powers. taking with him shil - load of those whom he felt would not da 1 differ with him in an expression of h Ill will. t.
 1T 1T Seventh. Because when Europe "; crippled and bleeding in man power al
 money-and we were in position to g m ain act our pound of f1esh-he forced throut 'ne his pet contract, which promised to mal ies him the first president of the world-al ne which they finally gave him-after En l land, France. Italy and Japan had d oi nanded and received their price and sa
 dled upon America the most oppressi
 mortgage in history
 ne. Eighth. By boldly declaring that tai would so entwine his pet covenant wi ,ep the treaty that it would be impossible ar. divorce it in spite of notice served on h of at the polls. In other words, the voice is the American people at the. polls was md be drowned by. the. voice of Woodrt
 Wilson at Paris.
 Ninth. By solemnly promising Fran ? to submit to the senate the tri-par treaty and the general treaty with Gt sim many at the same. time and then co ing pletely ignoring the united demands
 ~ France and America that he> keep ]
 promise.
 = Tenth. By refusing to allow Il
 American people to enjoy the blessing 7 peace although every nation in the wo knows that we were at peace and u T. the resolution passed by both brancl | of congress should have received | sanction and not his veto.
 Eleventh. By his persistence I spending billions of the peoples money
 the theory that we are still at war I a time when thrift and economy are
 sentiaf to the rehabilitation of the vol