The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-23

to retire him to private Life. Don't
forget that Mr.. Smith is supposed TO
represent 1--WE the People.
Because I do not favor Cash
and Garry Policy you accuse me OF
being projudiced. Mr.. Cipriano, I
am not prejudiced-you don't under
stand. place principles above
party politics. Let me explain:
STANDING on the field at Gettys-
burg while it was still damp with
the blood of the slain, Abraham Lin
coin delivered an eternal message
to the American people-'that we
here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that
this nation under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that gov
eminent of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people shall not perish
from the earth"
Nineteen hundred seventeen and
nineteen-Turn backward to the
memory Of men who dared fling
away their precious lives for some
thing they deemed yet more pre-
cious. Mr.. Cipriano you and I
honor these men. Because they
made the supreme sacrifice, we speak
their names in q low voice, because
we feel ourselves a little unworthy.
More than $4,000 Americans fell
beneath the scythe of war during
those dark days Of 1917-19. Have
these men died in vain? Unnum-
bered millions have borne hardship
and wounds; 1t is the fashion of to-
day Mr.. Cipriano to sheer at the
hidden motives and the furtive and
unworthy aims which, too often I'M
derlie q war. It Is natural to be
deeply cynical Of wars final re-
suits, for the past % years have
been years of deep disillusion. But
even such thoughts cannot tarnish
the memory of the dead. They
believed as we do 'They passed
beyond the mists that blind us
here, and they've reached the end
of the rainbow"
Many World War veterans re-
member the vision of a better,
cleaner world which was before the
men who were cut down in the Ar
gonne Woods. All honor to those
who sleep amidst the peoples. They
sacrificed their lives In the hope
that our liberty should not perish.
Their philosophy was founded, not
on the fiction that there would be
no more wars, it was not predicated
on the pagan principle OF famine
and poverty which today grips
world made safe for our so-called
democracy, but it was founded on
the doctrine that Christ preached
1900 years ago when he enunciatei,
'"rhat greater than this no man
hath, than he lay down his life for
his friend"
hold no luminosity because your
opinion differs from mine. Aftes a..
those who believe In the principles
Of Christian brotherhood and Amer
icanism are the future Americans.
was proud to see the Connecticut
mothers organize to outlaw war, the
curse of civilization. God bless them.
May they realize the high Chris
tian ideals which prompted them to
form such an organization. In their
hands lies the destiny OF America
and its free institutions. "Civiliza-
ton is nothing more than an end
less pact between the living and
the unborn" The dead have builded
the foundation Of our nation and
have handed to us the torch OF
truth. 1t is ours to keep 1t burning
amidst the stormy winds of passion
and Godlessness. To our Connecti-
cut mothers devolves the task Of
passing it down to future genera
tons.
With all due respect for your
opinion shall continue to circulate
petitions to oppose all attempts to
modify the Neutrality Act, because I
firmly believe that such procedure
Is necessary for the domestic tram
guilty Of our country. Therefore,
your pearls of wisdom on the bene-
Mt of a Cash and Garry rolicy. fall
on deaf ears.
GEORGE L. AYOTTE,
President. Citizens study Club.