Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-13
LINCOLN CLUB
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approaches it hy the shortest route.
He invariably hits the line ana hits
it hard
"At any given moment a political
party is turning to the public a face
which is Il fairly accurate index Of
what is going on inside. The Repub-
/ lican party is responsible for its own
face at fifty. AS we Republicans
seek popular confidence by proclaim
ing ourselves the sons of Lincoln. our
party face ought to be the reflection
of policies that are straightforward
and strong.
Our objective. like Lincoln's, is to
preserve the Union.
This is no mere figure of speech.
II class is TO be arrayed against class
and section against section ana race
against race and creed against creed,
the will of the American people to be
one people may be weakened to the
breaking point.
IF the states are to he submerged,
their initiative and self reliance lost
and an overwhelming central organ
iZation developed which takes over
and operates the instrumentalities of
our social and commercial life. our
union quickly becomes an unWieldiy
aggregate whose very strength is its
weakness.
'The prea mble of our constitution
declares that we formed the Union
to insure domestic tranquility. If
we amend it so as to set ourselves the
task Of insuring foreign tranquility as
well. our well meant effort may burst
us asunder.
America will be happiest and
therefore the Union most secure if
our governmental policies are such
as to encourage individual initiative
and self development. if our govern
mental machinery is simplilied and
operated at minimum cost and if we
strike the note of service to Z suf-
ferirg world but resolutely decline to
enter intcrnational combinations
likely to involve us in war"
Senator Pepper said railways and
ships must be privately owned and
privately controlled. also that the
consolidation of railways must take
place in the public interest, but that
rates and service must be subject to
reasonable regulation.
I'm foreign relations" he said. Eve
must never hesitate to act when a
definite course is disclosed which we
can usefully and hopefully take. In
1916 such Il course was disclosed.
Today no such course is disclosed
and the test of wisdom is refusal to
be stampeded by those who clamor
for action for the sake of action with
no clear idea of what should be done,
or what the consequences of action
would be.
"France was lately III a position,
which, as she saw it, she must either
act or lose both her reparations and
her self Prospect. She acted; and
while opinions may differ as to the
wisdom of her action. 1 am one of
those who maintain that any other
course was for her a political and
psychological impossibility.'
The settlement of The British debt.
he said, on the terms proposed by the
president, seems an obvious duty to
be quickly discharged.
Mrs. Mccormick said the women
were tired of licking the stamps,
| arranging the entertainments and
doing the chorse during political
campaigns and wanted to play a
real part in national political life.
She declared the women are better
organizers than the men, as they
proved in winning the ballot.
She declared that neither the Re-
| publicans nor the Democrats gave
the women the vote. They enfran-
! chised themselves.
! Not q single man. down deep in
| his heart. wanted u.s." she asserted.
She said the women are going to be
| better sports than the men
| thought. The women want to get
| INTO municipal politics and help pick
the candidates. she announced.
congressman Carroll L. Beedy in
| 2 briet address referred to Senator
Pepper as one of 1.-The intellectuals
or the Senate A wire from Rob-
ert Lincoln, son of the emancipator,