The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-09
Democrats Put World
 Peace Above Partisan
 ship-H. $. Cummings
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of paper money has come to such an extent that it is practically worth less. In Russia it would take a room full of rubles to buy a pair of shoes.
 Tn addition to this we have de- stroyed in a large measure the means of production, and we have piled upon the back of the world a burden of taxation under which the whole world today is struggling. And out of every dollar of taxes that is raised from the people, 80 cents of it goes fir paying for past wars.
 Why my friends, we did not re- qu1re the vision of the prophet to predict hard times in this country. 5,o0o.0o0 men are out of work to- day, and 0,0O0 are out of work in Chicago alone. Already the parks of our cities are beginning to be populated at night by the men and women who have no home to go to. Yet we have among nations, the most powerful nation in all the world, and the one least harmed by the losa of man power or financial strain of all the nations involved, in the great conflict a few years ago.
 And so I say that we are rapidly approaching the point of what we shevisn in Russia is not cause, it is an effect. It is the result not the cause of the economic exhaus- tion. And so this whole world of ours today as we gather here, stands in the shadow of both war and revo- 1ution. And so we may well con- slider what is our duty in this great emergency. You may think that l am exaggerating, my friends. But I am well within the facts that are recognized by those who have made a study of this situation.
 'On1y few months ago the Cham Der of Commerce of the United States sent across a commission to study conditions in Europe. That report goes into the minutest details, and to that report have been appended the names of the strongest financiers and business men of America, and that re- port reaches two conclusions: First That there can be no peace without America. Second-That there can be no saving of civilization as we under stand it unless civilization is reform ed. They are speaking of that condi- ton in which the world finds itself to- day, and particularly these attempts to secure peace because without navies, and if you have armies and navies you must support them, and you have got to pay taxes to main tain them.
 And so from time to time the thoughtful people of the world, re- cognizing what ought to be the merest fundamentals of this condition, have sought to find an exit. The world today is visibly struggling to find an exit for the empasse in which it finds itself.
 What Is the remedy? The em- edy is not far to find but it is difficult
  rests in the people themselves. I sometimes think that the statesmen and leaders are not entirely to blame, because they cannot move faster than the people. If the people want peace they must make their desires hope full and must raise their voices. and many voices must beat upon the ears of the rulers and statesmen.
 We want constructive work, and We want the world brought into closer harmony, so that the processes of peace may run a smoth course. How can this be accomplished? By real izing that the world is saved not by selfishness and idea1ism but by friendliness and good will and mutual understanding.
 "If we look about us and study history a bit, we find that our remote ancestor defended himself with spears and clubs, ard that all mems hands were against him., And pretty soon f.s intelligence develops he gath CTS his family about him for mutual protection and the tribe evelopes. Later they got together under some local government and ultimately states and nations were developed for mutual protection, and later the na- tions were drawn into closer and closer communication with each other for the purpose of mutual protection. Right here in this hemisphere we have one of the most beautiful exam ples of this power of mutual associa- tion. I refer. to the Monroe Doc
 
 ment by President Monroe that this country of ours would regard it as an unfriendly act if any other nation attempted to trespass upon the po- litical independence of territorial in- tegrity of any other country in this hemisphere.
 Doctrine until it is impressed upon all the world. and that is all that the League of Nations was ever in- tended to accomplish (Applause).
 Speaking of the League of Nations MT. Cummings said: Unfortunately at that great period in public affairs we fell into disorder among our selves Partizanship intervened and enemies arose and Americas oppor- tunity for action was practically de- stroyed. We drifted on and on un- til we come to this Washington con- ference.
 q say that the conference at faces of men. (Applause). It must be made to succeed. The pow of America must be put behind this great project. I know there are diff faculties, and I know some of the tre- mendous problems that must be over come.
 "I realize that the sister Republic of France has proved to be somewhat difficult to manage in this difficult situation, but I know of the costly sacrifices that France has placed upon the altar of freedom and don't blame them entirely.
 You cannot expect France to dis. arm unless France has guarantees of peace and integrity. Then by the same old circle we get back to the fundamental problem that we cant have peace until we get mutual se- curity and we can't have mutual se- curity unless the nations of the world learn to stand together against the common enemy of mankind.
 'The path to peace has been mark ed out by all great thinkers, leaders and students. I was reading only 8 day or two ago the Nobel Peace Prize address delivered by Roosevelt in 1910, when he very properly said that the world must urge disarmament, and that 1t could not urge disarma- ment or settled peace without the common pressure of the peace-loving nations of the world.
 Wilson's Trip Across
 .It was this great principle that took Woodrow Wilson to Europe for tbe purpose of securing peace by