Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — HIGH POINTS1 HIT BY GLYNN IN KEYNOTE ADDRESS [ARTICLE]

HIGH POINTS 1 HIT BY GLYNN IN KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Americanism- and peace, preparedness and prosperity—are the issues upon which the Democratic party stands, and the heart of the Democratic party swells with pride that is more than a pride of party, as it hails the man who has asserted this Americanism, assured this peace, advocated this preparedness and produced this; prosperity. We have entered this hall as Democrats; we shall deliberate as Americans. ... It took Washington and his successors 80 years of endless negotiation to win the recognition of American neutrality. And this SO years of struggle wove the doctrine of neutrality so closely into the warp and woof of our national existence that to tear it out now would unravel the very threads of our existence. What the people of the United States must determine through their suffrage is whether the course the country has pursued through this crucial period is to be continued; whether the principles that have been asserted as our national policy shall be indorsed cr withdrawn. This is the paramount issue. No lesser issue must cloud it, no unrelated problem must Confuse it. IHe (the President) stands where Washington stood when he prayed that this country would never unsheath the sword except in self-de-fense so long as justice and our es-

sential rights could be preserved without it. Neutrality is the. policy which has kept us at peace while Europe has been driving the nails of war through the hands and feet of a crucified humanity. When Grant was'President, during the war between Spain and the Spanish West Indies, a Spanish gunboat seized the vessel Virginus flying the American flag and a Spanish commandant in cold blood shot the captain of the Virginus, 36 members of the crew and 16 of the passengers. But we didn't go to war. Grant settled our troubles by negotiations j ust as th i - President of the United States i? trying to do today. This pohcy may not satisfy those who revel in destruction and find pleasure in despair. It may not satisfy the fire eater or the swashbuckler. But it does satisfy those who worship at the altar of the God of Peace. It does satisfy the mothers of the land at whose hearth and fireside no jingoistic war has placed an empty chair. We have been carried too close to the rocks of war during the past two years not to believe that those rocks do not exist. And looking into flic future we can perceive that if our sovereignty is not challeneged ...... it will only be because the world knows that we are strong enough to defend ourselves from every foe. The Democratic party advocates and seeks preparedness, but it is preparedness for defense, not preparedness for aggression. The Underwood tariff enacted by this administration has banished greed from the gates of our ports, and written justice in our tariff schedules. By the Underwood law this administration has taken the tariff out of politics; by the new tariff commission it proposes to take politics out of the tariff.