The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-12

with undiminished courage, proud of it's achievements, confident of the yer dict of history and serene in the knowledge that it will be asked again to take the management of the great affairs of our country.
 To-day, though crowned with pow CT, the Republican Party has neith- CT program nor settled policy. The Secretary of State in dealing with Mexico and China, in discussing the cable lines at Yap, in consid ering the Russian situation, and the Colombia Treaty, and in presenting American contentious relative to Mesopatamia speaks the language and proclaims the policies of his Democratic predecessor. It was said that all the Wilson poll cies would be repudiated and that there would be established a separate peace with Germany as soon a Republican Congress could pass the law and a Republican President could sign it. This was convenient pro- paganda for the purpose of a cam paign; but responsibility has had sobering effect, and such a course now appears to Republican leaders as in consistent with American honor. Each advancing hour furnishes new proof of the SoundnesS of the Democratic position.
 Cannot Sell Without Buying.
 '.In our dealings with the tariff question, we understood what Repub- lican leaders are so 1oath to learn, that a nation cannot sell without buy ing; that foreign and domestic com merce are not different things, but only different aspects of the same thing: that foreign business begets domestic enterprise and that America cannot prosper without export mar ketS for wheat, cotton, copper and manufactured goods. The enactment of Child Labor Legislation. the pass age of the Clayton Act and the estab- lishment of the Farm Loan Banks in- dicated the spirit behind the 1egisla- tive purposes of the Democratic Ad- ministration; while the creation of the Federal Reserve System gave to our country an economic soundness which it had never possessed under Repub- lican rule and which enabled us to withstand successfully the enormous financial strain of the Great War.
 ''It was the stateSmanship of Woodrow Wilson that drove wedge between the armies of the Central Powers It was American initiative that secured unified command of the Allied armies and broke up the U- Boat WI flare. When the time came to lay down the terms of the armistice .it was the American President who dictated the terms. The pen Of Woodrow Wilson was nightier than the sword of Prussia.
 I say to you, in all solemnity, that American power, prestige, honor and tire history of our country, reached the heights that they did under the lead ers7nip of Woodrow Wilson. America had it in her power not only to be the moral leader of the world; but the material leader of a new world fashioned in the moulds of peace. This was the supreme mo- nnent of our history. Our hearts it had been given to our country to lead the stricken peoples of the world up from the valleys to the higher planes of achievement. The hour was ripe for this great adven- ture. The very air was surcharged with large and generous emotions. The time had come to redeem the hopes of the world and to justify the Inendtng sacrifices which human ity had made There had been, throughout the period of war, such moving spirit of patriotism, and all sorts and conditions of people had been drawn so closely together by their mutual service that there was no general recognition of the poSSfbil- it:es of serious divisions of sentiment. It was a common saying that we were no longer Republicans or Democrats that we were only Americans. This psychology had been carefully incul- cated and had been amazingly effec- tive during the hazardous period through which the country was pass ing. The general An 1c did not either know or sense B., dangers that 1urked behind the sI, --S of author ity.
 DeVeIOD FdSI.
 Immediately following the election of the Republican House and Senate in 1918 the evils which might readily have been foreseen developed with astounding celerity and became more viru1ent and menacing with each ad- vancing hour. The Slumberng op- position to President Wilson, which had burned like an inward consum- ing fire in the breasts of the Repub- 1ican leaders, burst forth immediately after that disastrous election. Moth ing that ingenuity could suggest or envy could invent was omitted in the attempt to weaken the influence of President Wilson at home and abroad. Every element of our pop ulation which was supposed to have some grievance was appealed to by propaganda of the most sordid char acter. Racial animosities, old world hatreds and ancient quarrels were de- Iberately revived; and large elements of our population were taught to think in terms of countries other than America.
 I say, without equivocation, that the campaign against MT. Wilson that was carried on, beginning with the Republican success in 1918, was not only the most ignoble in the history of American politics, but it had a dis integraing effect upon American sol idacity with incalculable consequences of evil. The President, engaged in the most sacred task ever allotted to man, was the victim of every islander and vile accusation that could be sug- gested by malice or envy; and yet he went steadily forward with his great work, carrying it to completion and bringing it home in triumph.
 World in Ruins.
 The world was in ruins, industry even in our own country had been un- der severe strain, and the process of rehabilitation should have gone for ward immediately upon the signing Of the armistice. Nearly a hundred thous- and American soldiers were dead in France. Ten million corpses lay upon the battle-felds of Europe. The smoke still ascended from the ashes of three hundred billion dollars worth of property-represen the wealth of centuries of toll and saving. All nations were involved and all Hhould have set to work to restore the broken structure of civiliza tion. That our own country, being the strongest and rnnst resourceful tha richest and the