The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-21
Country Is Absolutely Without Leadership Cummings Asserts In Keynote Speech To Democrats Assembled In Hartford Meeting

dare to be great, to remember that American is part of the world ans not apart from the world, to rea11ze that life is the common adventure or all mankind, and to realize that the intimate contacts of modern civ1l1za- ton have made it. also. a common destiny. Our course for time seem ed manifest. It was clear ana glor- ious to lead, to redeem, help and sue cor. American power and prestige and honor and statemanshlp have never in the entire history. of our country reached the heights that they did under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson.
 Then came the Congressional cleo tions of 1918. For reasons which it is not now necessary to detail, the
 of the roads. There was an oppor- tunity in the Presidential election Of 1920 to retrace these false steps but the people preferred to continue the
 course which they had chosen. This
 was their privilege. It is one of the fundamentals of democracy that the people have the right to, make their | own mistakes. It was 8 numerical
 overthrow. Since these two elections, | conditions have grown steadily worse. Our people abandoned a fruitful lead ership for barren isolation.
 The soundness of the policies of the Democratic administration is increas- l ingly apparent. The bitter lessons of | experience are biting deeper and deeper into the public conscience. It Of rededication.
 Tn present Secretary of State in dealing with Mexico and China, in dis cussing the cable lines at Nap, in considering the Russian situation and the Colombian treaty and in present | ing American claims relative to Meso- potamia, speaks the language and proclatns the policies of his Demo- cratic nrPdQPnqgnr The Pact, insofar as it is meritorious is | but pale reflection of the larger purposes of Woodrow Wilson. The l leaders of the Republican party are
 not vibrant with hope and they have no spirit of jubilation. The average Republican of intelligence is both dis 1 turbed and apologetic. The whole country seems to be aware that some thing is an1iss.
 Failures of the Administration Nor has the Republican admins | tratton been happy in it's dealings with
 matters of routine. Having earnestly l assured the country of the high char acter of it's prospective appointees, it sends the impossible Riley to bedevil the affairs of Porto Rico and to bring humiliation upon his countrymen. It sends the unspeakahle Harvey to the Court of St. James, where he seizes the first opportunity to misrepresent the spirit of America. and to vulgarize the cause for which our soldiers died MT. Daugherty finds his way into the Cabinet as Attorney General On ac- count Of his connection with the Morse case, Republican papers clamor for his resignation; and because of his attitude, toward the recent strike in l Junction, Republican member of Congress presents papers of impeach-
 ment. An inexcusable raid has been
 made upon the civil service employees | in the Treasury Department and, un- | der Presidential proclamation, the civil service rules in the Post Offlce
 mockery. In Congress the admins | tratfon is not supported by any cohe- sive body of men.
 The Congress is broken up into
 administration still retains in certain | quarters g1assy eyed newspaper
 support which. perhaps, is the only
 thing that stands between the party
 half a dozen states the administra-
 tion leaders have been overthrow
 and former Progressives are takins
 up again the fight for the regeneration | minds which were supposed to guide
 the Republican party seem to be eel. lebrat1ng but feebly.
 | Shipping Board
 During the war, an enormous mum.
 Der of ships were built by our gov. ernment and it was supposed tha1 these ships would be available afte1
 the war as @ magnificent merchant
 marine. It was expected that WI would retain the great shipping in.
 terests which developed during tn, Democratic administration. When the | Republican party came into power
 and cut our country aloof from asso. | citation with it's former Allies. ou1
 foreign trade was prostrated and ou, ships were idle,
 Chairman Lasker, of the Shfppins | Board, whose knowledge of shippins
 matters was acquired entirely after his appointment and which are very
 limited in any event, has just com pleted remarkable transaction by | Which several hundred American
 ships, costing many hundred million dollars, have been sold for a ridicu- lously insignificant sum. One enter
 tripsing statistician has calculated that the amount realized, when Estimated | in percentages, is less than the per
 centage of alcoholic content perrnitted
 in beer.
 It is a pity to see this great fleet
 dismant1ed because we have not the
 wit to find a use for it.
 Newberry Case
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