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. TTIE WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL Friday Morning, June 16, lli6 WIXSTON-SALK M MVFFOHD MARTIN Published by THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING COM-i PAN Y, Journal Building. 131-137 Main Street, Wlmrtoc-! Bfclem. N. C. every morning except Monday. j Foreign Advertising Representees: Bryant. Griffith and Fredrick. 2:5 Fifth Avenue, New York; People Gu Building, Chicago, and 2UI Devonshire Street, Boaton, tkukfiioxes Buatneaa Manager Manager Editor . . City Kdltor ... .", Society Editor Circulation Manager 8CBSTRHTHJN RvTtl On Copy, One Year Ona Copy, Sli Montha , Out Copy. Three Montha One Copy, On Month Una Copy. On eek . . . Sunday Only, One Year Look at the printed label on your paper. The date there on ahowa when the subscription expires. Forward your money In ample time for renewal. Notice date on label carefully and If not rorrect, please notify office at once. Bubacribera desiring the address of their paper changed will please Btnte In their communication both OLD and NEW uddrepses. 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JI NK BRILLIANTS Often the fear of one evil leads us Itoilcau. lie Is nil fault, who hiith no fault, ill Ho Is only fantastical that is not In And sweets grown common lose I Sliakespcarev Who bravely (lures must sometimes It Is part, of the cure to wish to lie WILSON'S KEYNOTE 'I'he country did riot need to be told that President Wilson had struck the keynote issue of his campaign when, in his Flag Day-address In Washington Wednesday, he declared that the Nation should not tolerate the efforts of foreign born citizens to force lids country to take sides with either of the warring Nations of Europe... The Presi dent was referring, of course, to certain leaders of the German-America n Alliance who are denouncing the Dem ocratic Administration for no other reason fhan ' t)iiit it has been strictly neutral and at every turn has success fully defeated the efforts of the Kaiser's agents in this country to force the Fnited States to abandon its neutral policy in the interest of the German government. Not all the members of this German-America n Al liance are in sympathy with its lenders in the movement which has been launched to force America to abandon the neutrality which President Wilson has so strictly ad hered to. Wo believe that there are thousands of -German' sympathizers rwho are just ns loyal Americans as r-ny of our citizens. Indeed there are no better citizens titan thousands of those of our citizens who were horn in Germany or whose ancestors came from Germany. The President was not referring to these. lie was referring ti those who think more of the German government than they do of the American government. It is these men - that should not be tolerated for a moment.- - And It Is these men, the lenders of the Cerniaii-Aineri- tim-AWnnco,. wlm han lsned mi nppenljn the members of the Alliance to knife" Wilson In the coming ('lection. It is these loaders that are supporting Mr. 'Hughes with - rreat enthusiiism. True, Mr. Hughes says that those who I are supporting him are supporting n man who believes in putting America first. lint the fact remains that thousands who do not put America first are rallying to the standard of Mr. Hughes hectiu.se they do not want a man in the White House like Woodrow Wilson who they l.r.ow by actual experience does put America first. Mr. Hughes may not want their aggressive and open support. He may even deplore their activities in his behalf. But as the New York World has so well said: "Circumstances have made Mr. : Hughes, splendid American that he is, the German candidate for 1 "resi lient in this campaign, just as circumstances have made him the Wall Street candidate, the trust candidate, flie tariff-monopoly candidate and the candidate of the mili tary extremists. The Germans, Big Business, Wall Street and Militarism are equally vociferous In their support: Without them lie would "not have "a ghost of a chance of election. The applause of the German-American Alliance Is "'mingled- with the (ipplauso of the-Steel Trust,- the-Beef Trust, the Munitions Trust, the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, and the monopoly-tariff rrowd. All the hy phenated elements are supporting Mr'" Hughes. All the reactionary elements are supporting Mm. Every Tory interest is back of him. All the jingoes except Roosevelt are back of him, and Roosevelt is expected soon. All of them are actuated by n unified nnd common .desire to beat President Wilson because they have been unable to control his Administration. "There Is no unfairness in saying that Mr, Hughes is -the hope of Germany in this campaign, or in saying that he is the hope of the predatory corporations or thnt he Is the hope of reactionary Toryism. He may insist that he is not for them, but he cannot deny that they are for him, and that they are supporting him not on ground'.! cf party regularity hut on'crounds of deep-seated antar onlsm to a President who has proved that he cannot l manipulated." JOUHXAL J5RYAVS .EDITOR has ul William Jennings ... IS , . .iV .. .838 .. .72 Cs 15 0,) 2 CU 1 -20 .45 .10 2.00 lie lore. He has different method pursue.! nihiivo Therefore. Hryan President to guide fact that he pursues l.oitv else's luethoils. While the Democratic resolutions committed was session in St, Louis . It committee that he had called on Mr if he would submit any planks for Va.; and Is on ' lorm and that Bryan had replied: offer, hut one, and what h' wants anil - N. C, FoBtoffice W In FRESH) il.i 1(1. l!tl. dlci willi .thai, iuio the statement which was quoted resolutions committee. till. Tennyson. fa.sliioii. Burton. heir dear delight.' ' The I'nion Journal spoke he refused to which he had of risk n full. Smollett cured. Seneca. three days without once intention to sit down on i ally to his standard. The -Republican; along with other followers of I-".. is naturally so ed for resenting this man whose to a political party ence is so shameful wore, his siiu'eros!..ailmirers. . .' The Republican ( 'olonel ' cannot therefore would a patriot rather per there is every support Hughes. named him as can newspaper of uiil not represent Roosevelt stood made by the Tribune the week before the Chic is seeking the support of the people iho Presidency are in line with the Colonel Roosevelt for more than a circumstances, if Roosevelt isn't a deserter of his and n traitor to his party what Is he? And drawing near her sofa "1 do not fJREAT FAITH IX WILSON 1 resident Wilson has .. i only won th' confidence of . rank and f.i .f the Demo- ratio party, which Jut-ti-i-s th-on in giving him a ri-noioination by acclamation. won tl e whole-hearted confidence of the man who some democrats Boaii. f-ar-d and ail Republicans hoped would give the Presi dent sti-iium trouble in the St. Louis convention. True, there was j time when Mr. Bryan's Confidence in the ability of Piesidetit Wilson to keep this country out of war was evidently shaken. If it had not been, the Com moner certainly would not h ive resigned from the Git bl uet. Hut Mr Bryan has learned much since his resigna tionmuch about Woodrow Wilson that he did not know seen the President, although pursuing a from that which Mr. F.ryan would have the result which P.ryan most desired has confidence in the ability of the (he Nation safely, notwithstanding the his own, rather than Rrvan's or a ny Wednesday a member informed the Brvan and asked him the Democratic plat 'I have no planks to that is the President's, his plank will lie mine. Determine expect to fore the people in his behalf on your report." Nobody has ever vet-accused Bryan of being an in ere '.man. His enemies have said many harsh thiifgs ut him. but tbev admit that Brvan has convictions of Ins own and follows them. If Bryan didn't believe deep down in his heart that Woodrow Wilson knows what is In st for this country, and is determiueil to act in acenrd- ..knowledge, be never would 'ha v' made from him before the WHAT IS HE? Republican feigns surprise because The Colonel Roosevelt as a deserter wh accept the nomination of the convention permitted to yi'll its lungs oupfor him for giving it an intimation of his it if the Republicans failed to II the Old Guard leadership of the G. O tickled over the Colonel's action th it is willing to forgive him for anything. It can't be blam even a statement of plain truth about ingratitude to loyal friends and disloyalty which he, himself, brought into exist and shocking to those who formerly to I apparently can see no rpnsnn wliv the conscientiously support Mr. Hughes and leave the impression that Roosevelt than a traitor when he refuses to enter the campaign against the ex-Justice. If Roosevelt' policies mean anything more to him than n scrap of pa reason why he cannot conscientiously Not a week before the Republicans their standard-hearer. Colonel Roosevelt publicly liranileil the ;. . ". nominee as a pussy footer." The -New ..York 'Tribune the leading Ropubli- the country, declared that Mr. Hughes In any way the policies which Colonel for and which made T. I!, the logical i.opiiiuioin cunuiilalc lor ("resident. Tins statement was igo con volition. The week after the convention the 'I'ribuuc ilo ' In res that both Roosevelt and his principles were, dor feated at Chicago "and Unit the principles for which Rouse-vett- KtnTlrt.T nrcmrt Hii'luded ..Jjlelj'le.pulillC(att.jdat.for.in ami they will not be found in the statement, issued by Mr." Hughes afler nomination." Continuing, the Tribune mpg- "iM'ftir, then, ns tfvjjse princn pies' are concerned. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wilson stand on the same ground." This being true, what 'earthly reason ran Roosevelt give for deserting his party except that, he feared defeat? What cause has he for supporting Mr. Hughes, when neither that gentleman nor the platform upon' which U in his campaign for policies stressed by year? Under such friends OMTICS IN TI1K PARLOR He found her bending o'er a houk A wrinkle on her brow. ske.l: What is the matter now"'" She turned to him a puzzled fa ""' A (id shTWIy shook -luir hoaii "Tho tariff question puzzles me, "I'm reading up," she said.. , , , ; like to seem so dull. And yet, although I try, ' T r MV mind will not the subject grasp Of tariff, low or high. You must explain to me the points .. Which my slow sense elude, ., And tell me on this vital theme What is your attitude?" Close to her side he sat him down. Placing the arm the while About her slender, supple waist. And said with simple guile, "Free trade in kisses 1 would have Between yourself and me. And yet, protection suits me. ton. And reciprocity " She blushed, but did not move from out The shelter or bis arm. "Will this protection e'er protect"" She asked in mock alarm. Then swore he that the stars should set. The sun his splendor pale, Fro he a faithless lover proved. So happy ends my tale , Lydia C. Tulloch in Home Friend Magazine SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. J. W. WESCOTT NOMINATING MR. WILSON FOR RE-ELECTION Chi'Tigo. June 15 Hon. John V. Wtscott of New .It-r-i v. in a speech nominating Wooiirow Wilson Presi dent of the I'nited plates for re-election, "at The tiemocrstie - convention here, said: Mr. Wewciu's Speec-li Prophecy is fulfilled. The eternal verities of righteousness have prevail ed. .UlUlisniaed by t lie calamities of war, unmoved by vituperation and vain declamation, hoi. ling to the pure altar of truth, the schoolmaster is statesman, the statesman financier, the financier emancipator, the eman cipator pacificator, the pacificator the moral leader of democracy. The Nation is at work. The Nation is at peace. The Nation is accomplish ing the destiny of Democracy. Four ye.ars ago the Nati"n was not at work. With resources ""Boundless", with a hundred million people eager to achieve and do. commerce languish ed, industries halted, -men were idle The country struggled in the toils of an inadequate linam ial system. Credit wiis at the , mercy of piracy. The small business man was hound hand j ml foot. Panic hung like a storm cloud over the business world. Now bursting granaries, teeming factories, crowded railways and over laden ships distribute wealth and comfort to uncounted millions the world over. Production outruns the means of distribution. The parallel of American prosperity is not found in industrial historv: nor is it cause- cm.') .accident, from Heaven It is ..... .... . . ....i . ' not one in me (ieasiiiiiuns OI a re vised tariff. It Is not the result of .b-s" rjictive legislation. It cannot be attributed to the manufacture of war in.ileri'.ils, constituting a bare live per ferituin of the volume of national business. War is destruction, not. production. War curtails international trade: War depresses industrial en ergy. When the L'uropcun cataclysm st nick the world, moratoria fell like, a blight upon many of the neutral Nations... but not upon the I'nited Slates. There stands the astounding pheno menon of American prosperity. What is its explanation? The FuClid of fin ancial theory worked to a demon stration, measures for the country's relief. He promptly put into effect the legislative expression of a grejit program. lie did not talk. He did things. Ho .dynamited the monetary dams anil let credit How to the re motest corners of the land, its spray dashing even upon foreign shores. He. released the Nation's resources and set the energies of all men free to exploit them, lie destroyed com mercial slavery. He struck off its shackles. The prosperity of the Na tion is the product of statesmanship and financial genius. American credit is- now limited onlv by its own hones ty and capacity. The cause being un disturbed, the effects must remain. The schoolmaster is statesman, the statesman is llnnix-ier, the financier is emancipator. -'With Lincoln, the emancipator of the chattel slave, he will live forever as the emancipator of the commercial slave. The Nation is at peace in. a world at war. America is confronted with appalling realities. It is not the part of wisdom to iilay with phantoms; dea.L.i.u ..I'iildl! K ' seek to entertain the national ijuagj niii mil with the le gerdemain of language. To build words mountain high as the throne of vanity and ambition should not be an American pastime. An attempt to catch the presidency by phrases is the work of folly. The function of a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal is not germane to the tragic conditions of the world. When the fate of millions is at stake, it is not i he part of any man to stack the cards. With civilization In peril, the sphinx becomes an anachronism. With the whole world tense and anxious, patriotic advice and sugges tion are of tiiore value thamabuse ."rnd" ilefa mat ion. Speculation . wilts In the blaze of truth. Abusive phraseol ogy shrivels before the relentless fact. Honesty is the commanding quality of a free and patriotic Ameri ca n . .What are the realities that face us? In Mexico exist the potentialities of civilization, in her wealth, her his tory, hi r schools, her religion, her needs, her very suffering and patrio tism lie the indestructible seeds of progress. . To have conquered Mexi co would have seated death . at the American fireside. If would have destroyed our prosperity and' added hundreds of millions of taxation to TTfe-hUTflenfr Trf- the Nation.- It- wohIiI have planted distrust and hatred of the I'nited States In every South American republic.1 It would have forfeited the respect of the world. It Vo.lULJiaye substituted the tenets of I in peria I ism for the " priiiiu TiTe's Tit Americanism. It would have prosti tuted the bravery and patriotism of American arms to t lie greed and ava rice of concessionaries. It would have robbed the I'nited States of ihe grandeur of her mission amongst the Nations of the earth. It would have made might right and repudiated the doctrines of Christianity. It would have iguoroil the fundamental con ceptions of moral progress and denied the right of fifteen millions of. people to govern themselves. Ambition and greisl were prepared to sacrifice merica and all that America stands for, in order to acquire the, wealth f Mexico. The diplomacy ofjjwatch- ful waiting" averted these calamities and preserved in their original purity the principles of American freedom and justice. "Watchful waiting" re pudiated Ihe brutal dictum of science that the weak must go down before thn strong. Help Mexico lest, over her. bloody grave are sown the drag- litis teeth or our own destruction. War with any Kuropean Nation wo'trtTl'IiavirsPt the world (lume-and .stopped the march of progress for oinlurv. Would anyone have had Tt--so-in ;rdee-4o.airu'ni, u, -"vh'ilti.Alucr-. 'ieanism"? Is a "virile Americanism" bloodshed, destruction, the horrors of war. and -its uncertainties? The substance of civilization is the ails, the sciences, literature, philosophy, industry, the' domestic virtues, free dom, ' religion and peace. But this is the substance of American nation alism. This is the virility of Amer icanism. It knows no national boun daries. It yet lives in the trenches and broken homes of Kurope and prevades its very thrones. Therefore, America lives in the trenches and broken homes of Kurope and its thrones. . The stupendous conflagra tion is consuming the errors of states men and dynasties; it is not consum ing the substance of civilization. Civilization is a unity. War with Ku rope would have cut asunder the moral forces that bind the Nations and left an age of darkness, anarchy, ami desnair. Standing on the immu table found, ilions of such Ameri canism, the schoolmaster and states man, with consummate skill, a skill that commands the admiration of the World, direct, the forces of civiliza lion. not with arms, but with reason and moral pressure against the e.v cesses of a belligerent world. With preternatural poise and clearness of vision, he is piloting America through the rushing storm. Who can deny the existence of a mural design in the universe? Who now con question its fulfillment? Who now can close his eves to the destiny of democracy to make the principles of civilization dominant, to bring the warring Na tions iif the earth together in lasting peace? The passions of men die. The truth lives. America has called to F.urope; Kurope is responding in terms of a revitalized civilization. The sublimest picture in civil history is that of a plain American citizen manoeuvring with the weapons of reason and humanity against the navies and armies of the contending Nations, and bringing them in ac cord .with the principles . of inter national law. The American standard of peace and justice now floats on the sea. It is unfurling over the trenches of the struggling Nations. From the vantage ground of imper ishable Americanism the match less craft of a real pacitist has not only avoided all war, but is leading the world into the ways of peace. What is peace but the assertion of moral progress? . What is the as sertion of moral progress but the in destructible civilization of Kurope and America? From the smouldering ruins of a thousand cities, over the graves of millions of brave men, out of the blackness of the battle smoke, arising from the obscurities of na- ! ":"!" Passions, already the peoples l'ic earth recognize the dim out lines, growing ever more distinct, of the composite soul of America in-4he patient and humane wisdom of the world's real pacificator. Of what avail all the wealth of our beloved land if it had been consumed in tho destructiveuoss of war? What avail the travail of human ' progress for ten thousand ycarshod not the soh. (l master and 'statesman been pacificator? His achievement is so vast that ambitious men are blind to its. reality, . Hut the plain millions, of all creeds and nationalities, recognize in it the imperishable glories of n Christian civilization. It glorifies the peasant and king alike. The school master is statesman, the statesman is financier, the financier is emancipa tor, the emancipator is the pacifica tor of the world. . . This is the Nation accomplishing the destiny of Democracy. The com manding fact of the modern' age is the spread of intelligence.! The school house bus conquered ignorance. The printing press has transformed the purposes and capacities of man. Kdu carion has qualified him for a bet ter existence. The Bible has made him a linorniist. Men know that the world ik big enough to support the human family in peace and com for. Men know that the great problem of peace and comfort Is not yet solved. They know thai it cannot be solved by the savagery of war, They know that its solution is obtainable 'only in conditions of peace, reason and a practical morality. This st.it-- of knowledge is the crowning ac'iiovn meiit of progress. The American experiment of self government has stood the test. 1 The achievements of the Amoriacn sys tem are known of ail men and felt throughout tho world, The -I'nited States is the world's asylum. Here (ill races, all conditions, all creeds arc assimilated, helped, elevated, and men are made into self-governing men. In America justice has made its greatest progress, because it is progress in which all men have a part. That form of government which affords the fullest opportunity for happiness and comfort is destined to be the universal form. Such is the resistless syllogism of progress. War cannot stop its inevitable inarch. The opinion of all men. is more potential than the opinion of one man. The best opinion of the hest men, by the force of example and mutuality of ' interest, becomes the opinion of' all men. . American opinion is. embodied in a man of peace. American opin ion is marching through the world. When the Imperialism of Kurope cast the iron dice of destiny. America threw Ihe moral dice of destine. There they stand in untarnished in tegrity in the gaze of a stricken world. The intelligence of men grasp the meaning of America. Her example will readjust the relations of men everywhere. The aspirations of men are for frepdnm: Men and wo men can and should rule themselves. The day when they rule themselves war will disappear. The hand of Di vinity f1;IK .-o wrtrteii it in the-nwds-and necessities of humanity made in Ws linauo. ,, j '' iiAmoi-lon, .prosperous, peaceful, blessed, is so because the inscrutable puroses-.j5f....GaxL..it!.endctl U The contrast between Kurope in flames and suffering and the I'nited States peaceful and prosperous Is the divine contrast. By saving the American system civilization is saved. The peace of America demonstrates the folly of war. The principles of De niocraey furnish the means of avoid ing and preventing war. The uni versal intelligence of men decrees that the; war now devastating Ku rope shall he the last war. Sons of America, keep unsullied the saered shrine of peace, through whose portals will yet pass arm in arm the crowned head and the humble peas ant in silent worship oT God. Out of the ruins and sufferings of the present conflict will arise a tem ple of justice whnsp dome will be the blue villi of Heaven; its ilium inants the eternal stars; its pillars the everluslintr hills: its ornaments Ihe woods and bountiful fields; its music the rippling rills, the song of birds, the laughter of happy child hood: its diapason the roar of mills and the hum of industry; its votaries the penpte-nf the earl h; its creed, on which hangs all the law and the pro phets, "Love thy, neighbor as thy-.-- I f, A I o vil. iu a 1 1 a rs. i n j i H : f f a c ca b 1 e color will live eternally the vision of Its artificer. Therefore, my fellow countrymen, not I, .but his deeds and achieve ments; not I, but the spirit and pur poses of America; not T. but the pray ers of bust men; not I, hut civiliza tion itself, nominates to succeed him self lo the presidency of the Fnited Slates, to the presidency of a hundred million free people, bound in im pregnable union, the scholar. the statesman, the financier, the emanci pator, the pacificator, the moral lead er of democracy, Woodrow Wilson, ALABAMA .XEC.UO IS SKXTFAC'KD TO IIF IIAXGFD (By The Associated Press) Mobile, Ala.. June 1.1. Mose Cun ningham, a negro, was found guilty of criminal assault here today and sentenced to he hanged. The Jury returned the verdict in six minutes. Cunningham attacked a well known white woninn of Toulminville, a su burb, on . May 17. Ho was captured ten days later ui Solum. I Box and Pound Papers We carry. a larpe" arid"" varied stock of Tablets, Envelopes, Pound Papers and Fancy Stationery. Prices lowest, quality consid ered. As cheap or as expensive as you do sire, but the best for the price always! BARBER'S PHONE 23 4 ABSTRACT OF ADDRESS OF SEN. JAMES AS CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC C0NVENTI0S (By The Associated Press) St. Louis. Mil, June 15. The achievements of the Wilson Admin istration ill enacting beneficial legisla tion and in keeping the country at peace without sacrifice of the national honor were pronounced epoch-making in American history by Senator Ollie M. .lames of Kentucky, in his address today as permanent chair man of the Democratic National Con vention . "During three years of its national control," said Senator-James, "De mocracy lias enacted into law more progressive remedial legislation than the Nation has ever had .written upon its statute books since its birth. In former national contests in the last two decades our party came as a pro phet. Today we come with (bed-, not words; with performance, noi promise. . . The Democratic parly has kept its word with the" American 'peo ple. We have made good." The chairman, reviewed at length the legislative record of tho Adminis tration and eulogized the President for his direction of foreign affairs. The Democrats, be said, bad enacted a tariff law under which iuonoulies were curbed and unexampled pros perity attained; a banking law taking the money control out of the hands of an oligarchy and making panics no longer possible; and many reforms measures of lesser importance. He declared President Wilson's Mexican policy and his course in pro tecting American rights against the encroachments of European belliger ents had shown all the world that the President neither bullies the weak nor fears the strong." In a concluding appeal for the tri umph of patriotism above polities, Senator James said the renoniinatlon of such a President in partisan con vention ought not to he necessary, and that to discredit him might palsy the hand that could write the peace treaty of the world. At. the outset the Senator referred briefly to President Wilson's ramnaign against the lobbying in Congress and pointed bill Ihrrt-iiuder-this Admin istration the constitution had been amended for the first time since the Civil War when "we freed the Senate from the control of the great Interests by making it elective by the people at the polls." He then eulogized the rndei'wood-SimJnons tariff act as one of which the party was justly proud. "Not a schedule in it fosters a mo nopoly." ho said. "Our Republican friends told ns it would close the fac tories, till the streets with idle men. produce a panic, create soup houses and distress would reign everywhere; but we rejoice today to point to an unexampled prosperity in the Nation with labor more generally employed, at higher rates, shorter, hours, and better conditions than ever before. Our Kepiibliean friends tell us (that after the war is over noor. stricken. prostrate, torn, bleeding Kurope will take our home market from us. I have no such fear. America is going to take the markets of the world. But we shall cut from them the lust hope of having even a false issue, for we shall pass a lull creating a tariff hoard to gather the facts created by new war conditions." Turning to the federal reserve law .-ifiiaior aames neciareo tnat it alone averted a panic at -tho-oHtbretik-of the European war. What would have been the result if the old Republican system had been in etliect .' he asked. "The slock ex cniine.es in. ..every city in the world were closed, huropc poured its vast uoiniiigs in pieinargic streams upon our shores. Who thinks that the old liepuhlican system of finance un der the guidance of those patriotic guardians would have been . aide to withstand this mighty cataclysm0 But what was Ihe result? Not a bank i Iosco us uoors; not a laborer was thrown out of employment; not : business was forced into bankninlcv: but there stood strong, serving tin masses of mankind, this great legisla tive achievement of the Democratic unity. A s the master acnievement of woodrow Wilson, to my mind, next to keeping a hundred million people at peace with the world, tho historian will record the federal reserve law." Declaring that "self defense and preparation for it is as necessary now ns ever before,"' the speaker pointed to the Administartion's preparedness program ns a proof that the party he lieved in "preparedness without mil itarism." "In Hind," he continued.""! attend ed the great peace conference hold in London. I thought that the mil irnitim of pence had come and such a -tliiug--the. world's- war was im possible; but that day when the Chris tian heart shall rule the world is not in sight. We must not mistake dis honor for peace, as we cannot mis-1 KENYON RAIN COATS Once again we must remind you how necessary it is that you have a good waterproof coat fo rsummer showers. We handle the genuine Kenyon Coat for men and boys. None better. 1 wBagby ADLERy ROCHESTER, CLOTHES PflOM 23 4 take oppression for peace. Wood row Wilson and the De.-noeratic party advocate an army big enough to make aggressors think the second time be fore they strike a blow. Democracy wants an army and a navy in keep ing with the dignity, preservation, nnd worth of this great Kepublic. We do not want a f lot of anybody else's soil, and. by the eternal God, they shall not take a foot of our." - "During ihis Administration wo have done more to build up an army and navy In-three years than the Re publican parly did in forty years of its existence. More has been . done to give the American people a navy and army in three months than Col. lioosevelt and Mr. Tiift did 111 eleven Vi Ill's." Senator. Janus spoke of the Repub lican j.liitfoiiii declaration for "a con ti minus,. ..jioiicV, :.. of national defense," declaring ihat only two propositions for a continuous policy ever had been made in .American history, one, by the general . board of the navy in I ft il.i, which was pigeon-holed by a Republican Secretary of the Navy, and the other by President Wilson in his address to CoiigresK last December. "But what happened when this mat ter was under comaderation in the naval affairs committee of th House?" continued the Senator. "Ev ery Republican member on the com mittee decided to oppose the Presi dent's 'continuous program' and would vote for no program longer than one year. After sixteen years of failure, even to let the public know of the 'continuous policy' proposed by naval experts, much less to carry out such a policy, and after the Republicans on the House Naval Affairs commit tee, in June, 191 fi, unanimously op posed the President's policy, they now say they favor the 'continuous pol icy.' " The Republican plank, declaring for "an effective system of rural credits as opposed to the ineffective law pro posed by the present Democratic Ad ministration," was assailed by Senator James, who declared that almost ev ery Republican in the House and Senate had voted for the Administra tion's rural credits bill and that none had charged that it was ineffective or had propose! a substitute. The Senator also replied to Repub lican criticism o? the lican criticism of the Administration's shipping bill which, he declared would have given the United States an adequate merchant marine by now had it not been killed at the last ses-, sion of Congress by a Republican fil ibuster.,, "For the first time in the history of our country," said Senator James, af ter reviewing briefly Democratic legis lation which he declared had made prosperity possible, "the United States leads the world in exports. We are more prosperous than ever, nnd mills which have not turned a spindle for years are now busy. All the laborers of the United States are employed as never before. With the world -war raging,, our country is the only neu tral one that is not in distress and the only one that has not declared a moratorium. Every' demand of tho stress of war, the Democratic party has met quickly. We have freed " business from the blackmail of the politician as we have emancipated it XiaiiiLtlie dutch of .-monopoly." Thn C.,,. fil. ..1 I,- 'r.i t.T!, son's '.Mexican policy to that of Lin coln, and quoted from a declaration of the latter to show , that he hud de clined to intervene when conditions weie' m'ui'h the same as now. "It is a perfectly easy thing," he continued, "ror the President of the. United States to plunge his country into war if he is a politician before ho is a patriot. He would seek his own reelection as he came upon horse back up the bloody highway of con tending armies. Of course our army could invade Mexico and march in triumph to its capital, but after the war was over other armies would march an army of widows and or- ' phans, an army of cripples and men broken in health, nn army of pen sioners, and an army of tax collectors gathering up the earnings of the peo ple to pay the great war debt." The President had acted quickly. the Senator said, when there was an invasion of American territory, and the punitive expedition was doing all that this country could do with honor in Mexico. "No President during the life of this republic," said the Senator "has ever had to deal with so many delicate and dangerous problems as those which have confronted President Wilson. With nrtire than hulf of the world : in. arms in. Europe, with Mexico in revolution at our uoroer, incse uimcuti and complicating problems have con- . - i (Continued on pngo Six) 8 -StqcktonS.
Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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