New Britain herald., 1924-09-13


 the genius of our institutions and to our national temper. We wish to live at peace with ourselves and with all men. We have no ear for any who preach different doctrine.
 We shall make a mistake more- over If we think of defense solely In terms Of our land armament, That Is necessary, no one will deny. But guared as we are, by the oceans and shielded by. our mountains the defense of America lies first of all upon the sea.
 50 song as .an adequate navy guards our coasts we need not fear the coming of any invader. And his- tory gshows that no navy has ever threatened the liberties of a coun- try or become the tool of revolution on the one hand or repression on the other.
 "At the Washington conference on disarmament we accepted definite ratio in the matter of capital hat tleships of 5-5-3. as between Great Britain, America and Japan. II startled an American to learn from the lips of the Secretary of the Navy himself that those in power have permitted America's actual strength in battleships to fall to the figure of four or below.
 When that conference ended the public. think. gathered the impres. sion that equality in naval equip. ment between Great Britain and America was assured, and American superiority over Japan at the ratio of five to three was fixed for the next ten years. I do not charge that thi, impression was the result of any in. tentional misrepresentation, but tho American public Is entitled 10 know that that conference dealt in no wa, with modern cruisers, with subma rines or the auxiliaries of a fleet and that against forty-four moderr cruisers owned by Great Britain ant twenty-fiye by Japan the United States has but ten. and that in ocean going submarines and airplane car riers our position is still more dis advantageous. We must not le praise for the good intent that la! behind the Washington conferenc, blind us to the partial and made quate character of its scope and re suits.
 Wants Preparedness for Peace. We will make poor use also O this day and the lessons that 1 teaches if we think only in terms o national defense And preparedness for war. It is more important ia that we should prepare for peace This generation of man has had 1t lesson surely concerning war and thu countless losses that follow in it train. It knows the draft it make on human lives and human happi ness and the burdens that it leave on the shoulders of men and womel around the world. It knows als what vast unnamed horrors lie hid den in the future If war should com again. Surely we have as much o vision. of effort and of courage t contribute to the prevention of wa as to its successful conduct when comes. | Make no nlistake-war canno be prevented by the good will of an single power, no matter how just c how generous. It cannot, as we hay seen and learned, be warded of b any armament, however larg Neither can it be destroyed merel by outlawing certain of its imple ments or lessening martial eauir ment. It can be banished from tn life of nations only by concerted et fort.
 "The duty and the interest c America alike demand exertion i the cause of peace no less courag ous than valor in time of war"
 A double argument for the leagu of nations and~against a high pro tective tariff was made by M, \ Davis in parable he used to illus trate the desirability of relievin the farmer by extending his foreig markets through the participatio of the United States in the re mobilization of Europe.
 Uses Parable on the Tariff
 Let me in simple terms imitat the greatest of all teachers an speak to you in a parable" he saic Suppose the Atlantic ocean were { shrink and become a mere threa of water between two great tract inhabited by human beings. An on one side, there are great whea and great corn fields, and gres herds of cattle and of swine, s much indeed that those who live on that side of the river had fe themselves and all their countr, men, and still had vast surplu crowding their granaries an thronging through their fields.
 And on the other side of tn tiny strip of water their live other millions of people, industr ous; hardworking, needy, underfe, by the hundreds of millions under fed, and some of them actual starving.
 And they came to this watersid and said to the farmer with h surplus, We are hungry for yor bread And he answered, 'Wh, have you to give? And they ss Nothing but the labor of ol hands, we have no money. Thi has long since perished in pap, that is worthless even to ourselve We have no gold. You have a most two-thrds of all the gold the world on your side of tf stream. We have nothing but tl things our daily labor can produc and these we bring to you and V beg you to accept them for vol benefit and for our nhySicat SalV,