| Show SUPPORT PRESIDENT PARAMOUNT ISS U E democratic keynote sounded by temporary chairman chaiem an glynn DEFENDS neutrality POLICY advocates defense preparedness and flouts militarism bugaboo discusses chuises por domestic nestle policies and eulogizes mr wilson st louis mo june 14 following IB 19 a condensed version of oc the address delivered at the opening of the democratic national convention today by temporary chairman martin H glynn former governor of new york gentlemen of the convention Conventi om the democratic party in this colv convention atlon assembled meets t to 0 perform a duty not to itself butto but to ithe the nation we have entered this hall ball as democrats we shall deliberate and act here as americans disregarding the divisions that mike make one man a tory and another a whig one man a republican and another a democrat americans will cast aside the tinsel ot of party emblems From tho great pulsing heart of the nation wilf will come a patriot command to crush partisanship and rebuke whatever Is mean or blind and when a century from now americas children come to re read adour our history we pray god that thai the history we are about to make may prove an inspiration to their loyalty in the attainment ot this ho hope pethe the utterance of this prayer we who gather liere here today have a responsibility that sobers our emotions as it strengthens our resolutions for two years the world has been afire abre that fire still burns but thus fir far the united states has held bold the flame at bay must support principles what the people of the united states must determine through their whether the principles th that at have been asserted as our notional nat lonal pd pol ol 01 icy shall be ba endorsed indorsed Indor sed or withdrawn thesis this is the paramount issue fo for r 2 00 years neutrality was a 9 theory america made its ita tact fact to win this priceless right of neutrality this nation had to undergo a long and painful struggle islo where to la the american hardy enough lo 10 to challenge a policy so firmly fixed in the nations traditions the president of the united states stands today wh where eres food the men who made america andl who saved caved america and made american neutrality a national creed it if washington was right it jeffer sod soa was right if hamilton was right if lf lincoln was was right then the president of the united states is rig right h t today tf if the republican beadi leaders ars ar are e right then lincoln was wrong and jefferson was wron wrong g and hamilton was wrong and washington gion was wrong in all the history of the world there Is no other national policy that aa justified itself so completely and entirely as the american policy of neutrality and isolation from the quarrels ot of european Europe aft powers neutral rights asserted no american who knows the facts can honestly oppose or criticise criticism critic ise the policy of neutrality which the present democratic administration has pur sued aued americas doctrine of neutrality never meant that this nation must rush headlong hea adlong into war at the first invasion of its neutral rights this does not mean that america will not resort to war when all other means ot of protecting lis it s neutral rights have failed but it does mean that america will exhaust every peaceful means of protecting those rights before it takes the step from which there Is no appeal the issue raised rals ed by chur our opponents of the vigor with which our neutrality has been enforced Is a comparative issue which can be decided only by comparative results when grant was president during the war between spain and the spanish west indies a spanish gunboat seized the vessel Virgin virgineus fus flying the american nag flag and a spanish commandant in cold blood shot the captain ot of the Virg lutus 36 of the crew and 16 of the passengers but we go to war grant settled our troubles by negotiation when benjaminn harrlson harrison was president the people of chill conceived a violent dislike to the united states one junior officer from the united states warship baltimore was killed outright in the streets of valparaiso and 16 of our sailors wound ed ea but we go to war harrison Harrt son settled our troubles by negotiation more historical facts when lincoln was president this count rys rights were violated on ev ery side england russia france and spain were guilty of flagrant violations but we go to war lincoln settled our troubles by negotiation when pierce pie ace was president the british minister in this country and three of hla hio consuls violated our neu tralley during the crimean war we gave these of great britain their passports and sent them home but we go to war pierce settled our troubles by y negotiation when van buren bure was vias president a detachment of canadian militia dur ing the In internal troubles li in canada i boarded the U S ship carolina carolin a in the american waters vaters ot of niagara river killed an american member ot of the ere crew w fi red fired tho the chip p wid nn d sent bent her adrift over niagara falls but bul 1 we lio go to war van buren settled our troubles by negotiation tia tion 11 when jefferson was president eng 1 land nd seized a hundreds of our ships and napoleon hundreds more but wo we go to war jefferson Jef lerson settled our troubles by negotiation when adams was waa president franco france preyed upon our commerce until she had piled up in ofir state department charges of over 2300 violations pt neutral itys law but we go to war adams settled our troubles by negotiation when washington was prest president dent and neutrality first declared doc lared war convulsed europe england and france seized of our ships and confiscated millions of dt dollars worth of olour our property but we go to war washington settled our troubles by negotiation tia tion in his policy of peaceful eions today the president of the united e d states follows the example set act him by the greatest presidents the democratic party and the greatest grea teat presidents the republican party ever gave this nation policy of negotiation to maintain our bur national honor by pe peace ace it if we can by war iffe must Is tte motto ot of the president of the united states submitting to io the chance and na misery sery of war true statesman la tie proposes to son and Justlee of negotiation to the abo testo test but say our critics this no one they mean tt it does not satisfy those who would map out a diw new and untried course tor for this nation to pursue V a all 1 4 I 1 temporary chairman glynn r t but they forget it does satisfy floso who believe the united states should live up to the principles principle ii it has pro fessel for a century and more mora i national honor in desperation fora for a slogan our opponents try to creato create an issue out of national honor now national honor Is not the whim ot of an individual mind national honor Is the composite sentiment the reason of a whole people feeling the emotions of 0 nature and following the dictates of 0 I 1 god and it Is for this reason that the power to declare war Is conferred by the constitution of the united states not on the individual will of president but on the composite reason reg the representative decision of the congress of the united states the genius of this country Is tor for peace there Is no danger of militarism we have built our great greatness nesson on the resources of nature and the peaceful toll of our people with us war has never been a choice it has always been a fate like the old mohawk chief who loved peace we would like to throw the tomahawk of war so high in the sky that no mans hand band could bould ever pull it down but when some other tribe among the races of men sends us a bundle of arrows wrapped in the skin of a rattlesnake we want to be in a position to send that rattlesnakes skin back stuffed with powder and with ball we deprecate the compulsion but we recognize the need of the policeman on the beat the safe in the bank and the watchdog on the tha farm the war across the seas has brought home to us the tear fear that so long as men are men and nations nations wars will continue for these reasons this administration has baa done more tor for our army and our navy than any administration in our history the party advocates and seeks prep preparedness aridness but it Is Is preparedness for defense not preparedness for aggression our national soul these then are the principles that have been asserted and followed by the president of the united states during the past two years years that thai the united states shall not embroil itself tn in european strife that the tha united states shall endeavor to maintain friendly and cordial relations ionn with every other nation and united i stites states shall firmly ass assort ert and maintain tain and be prepared to assert lad maintain its neutral rights against every b this convention must lakeit make lt plats plain that all divisions among the american people stop at the oceans ed ati over and above every other reason that the nation may have for upholding Us its president Is the necessity of 0 proving to the world that we aro ara a united people so long as the other nations of the tha earth realize that the millions under americas flag think as one believe as aa one and act as one in the face of oc foreign war we shall be free from foreign intrigue and all that it entails high ailigh above every other issue griat this convention offers to tho the american people we must therefore write a vindication of american loyalty our domestic policies four years ago the people of tola this country entrusted their govern government mont to a man and to io a party who promised that they would liberate the nation from the e chains of industrial who themselves to break down the barriers behind which special privilege s ajit t entrenched who engaged themselves to io emancipate business to throw wide the gato gate ot of lawful enterprise to restore to the men and women ot of america the paths of progress which had beon been choked and blocked by long years 0 of invisible government that promise has been kept that pledge has been redeemed we must content ourselves here with a brief consideration ot of 16 the great landmarks which chart the change from government tor for the fortunate few to an evenhanded government in the interest of all the first ot of thea is the federal reserve act which freed the business man and the farmer from the financial domination of the money changers and lifted the menace of panic from our industrial life hee in the same spirit and with the same motive that inspired the federal reserve act this administration has devoted itself to the stimulation of american industry agriculture and trade through all the agencies of government ern ment new moaning meaning to laws it has given a new meaning and a new force to the laws restraining big business from competition it has created a trade com commission mission to afford to business generally a more direct and prompt administration of the laws relating to business it has e established shed government representatives throughout the world whose sole duty Is to foster the expansion of american trade it has created a closer union ot of economic commercial and financial interests between the tha united states and the nations of south america it h has as d declared in language that no cou court rt a and nd no employer can compel his men to work tor him against their will it has freed the farmer from the chains of a financial system which was devised for business and not tor for farming I 1 cannot close this review of what the present administration has accomplished without adverting to its courageous and statesmanlike solution of the nations tariff problem of all the tariffs wa we ever enacted th this is la Is the fairest and the best by the underwood law this administration I 1 it ration has taken the tariff out ot of politics by the new tariff commission it proposes to take politics out of the tariff under the present administration the united states has enjoyed a wonderful era of good business and good times Flood tlde of prosperity the flood tide ot of our prosperity hits baa risen to such an unprecedented height that the only limit to trade Is our ability to make and transport the commodities modi ties demanded at home and abroad the purchasing power of our people Is greater than that of any other people on the globe never was there asmuth much money in our vaults as today nowhere else on earth Is there a more equitable distribution of whit what the energy of labor hammers into existence out of the material which capital places in its hand measured by every possible standard by the volume of 0 experts and imports bythe by the expansion of domestic trade by the condition of labor by the rate of 0 wages by the size of bank deposits and clearinghouse returns by the balance of 0 trade or by the amount of goldin gold in the country by any and all of these standards this country today Is enjoying prosperity such euch as aino no other country has over ever enjoyed before wilson the man americanism and peace pre preparedness pared and prosperity these are the issues upon which the democratic party stan stands ds and the heart ot of de dom M oc racy swells with pride that Is more than a pride of party as it halls the tha man who has asserted assorted athla abla americanism assured this peace advocated this preparedness and produced this prosperity the man who to Is president ot of the united states today has measured up to the best traditions of a gr great eat office and when the history of these days comes to be written arild aaa the children ot of tomorrow read their nat nations iblas story when time shall have dispelled all misconception and the years shall ha have ve rendered their impartial verdict one nanie name VI will 11 shine in ID golden splendor upon the yag page a that Is blackened with the tale ot of Eu ropes war one name will represent tb the triumph of american P principles over the hosts hosta of darkness and of death that name will be the name ot woodrow allson president and prest oat to be |
