Show PHILIPPINE 1 ASSAILED BY HUGHES Argues for High Tariff and w Preparedness in War t and Commerce PORTLAND Ore Aug 17 Charles Carles Charles CharlesiE iE E Hughes left here early today on a hour thirty trip to San Francisco which he expected to make with only an af occasional break for platform plat plat- form addresses The official itinerary provided for no such addresses but It dyas understood that several might bernade be made during the day aThe The nominees nominee's Itinerary provides for I p 13 all day stay at at San Francisco Franciaco Sat Sat- before leaving for Los Angeles During the stay In San Francisco Mr Hughes expects to confer with West- West eWt fn leaders of the part party J ir PORTLAND Ore Aug 17 7 Charles E. E Hughes before a arge large rge a audience die ce in the ice rink here herel l last st night assailed the Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic party for its policy toward tire ilie Te Philippines We We cannot afford in this country Yo To to lose sight of national obligations Hughes said Our friends on theother thel the l other er side were almost ready to say we ive should abandon the Philip Phllip- ines That That was a matter of national Honor l nor We assumed obligations there 1 w which ich we are bound to discharge It is not so much a matter o of self interest I do not care so much with respect to the argument of self inter inter- interest interest j est But when this nation undertakes Before b fore the the- world a responsibility it it must discharge it a 6 And we wa ought not to consider the i suggestion of or scuttling out of f the Philippines to leave them in the predicament predicament predicament pre pre- which know perfectly well VeIl without my describing it I Efficiency Needed I IVIe We VIe need more of a sense of obligation obligation gation as individuals If we have the sense of national honor a dominant j I consciousness of national unity a proper policy of conserving the e. e opportunities of American enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise w we shall do well but we need still more We ne need d throughout our administrative departments ts high standards of public work We need efficiency in every department of American government Speaking of the tariff Hughes referred re reo re- re erred to a letter written he said gaid by an at an eminent Democrat on July 28 to toI I he president ot o. the Illinois Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' I association in which it was vas said that jt it ought to be possible to tomake tomake tomake make tho the question of duties merely a qU question stion of of progress and and- development develop develop- ment ment- I I. I don't dont care whether this letter letterIs Is is authentic or not Mr 1 Hughes said sald If U it t i is not riot authentic then the provision of law is little ittle more than a sham If It it i ks s authentic it does not represent th the sentiment of ot the Democratic party The nominee reiterated his arguments argo- argo rents ments for a protective tariff tor for commercial commercial com corn mercial preparation for tor operation co-operation with Europe after atter the war for tor reasonable reasonable rea rea I adequate preparedness and Repeated his declaration that the D Democratic party was opposed to progress Pl Graveyards Why hy if I were a me member ber of ot that r and and I speak with witt all good nature nature na na- na- na ture tOre because we we are threshing things ut here now now and and looked through the platforms of the past I should feel teel that I t was going through a cemetery richly Embellished with i j Hughes re referred to the number of Unemployed In 1914 du d be largely he Said to the Underwood tariff They knew why they were unemployed loyed he said Every one of ot them was a tariff expert erpert There were unemployed tariff experts in the of New York alone i You cant can't put American working I men men alongside working men of ot other I I countries who work at less wages and expect the American working men to survive You have got to get down to the common basis of ot competition It Is perfectly Idle to suppose you can have the American wage scale and the American standard of goods and l let t in goods made under a lower standard of ot living without hurting American enterprises enterprises enter enter- enterprises and American working men In reference to Alaska Hughes said I would not have much confidence In InH speaking of ot a new new spirit In American life Ufe if It I did not believe belleve In the integrity of ot the business men men of ot America I believe that we can do things right In this country and develop our resources You have got an empire In Alaska I want to see it developed I I want to I see it de developed loped right Must Be Sure of Ourselves I think the time has come when we have got to be sure of ot ourselves sure of ot our Integrity confident and equal to our emergencies I have had something to do in my Ut lit with correcting and preventing abuses In connection with public mat mat- I and I tell you now my friends that whether I speak of ot Alaska or whether I speak of ot the tariff no one is going to pull anything out at the public expense if It I can prevent It If I am charged with the high office for tor which I am candidate Hughes said in closing to put my principles to the test I am not afraid of ot the test I know what it means but my friends of ot Oregon Oregon you you who me and made me become a candidate at the primary against my will I will-I I have left the bench to undertake the active work of ot this campaign with but one ambition It is not an ambition to hold high office That has no illusions for me But I have the ambition to try so far as within me lies to have efficient American government worthy of ot Americas America's best capacity and Americas America's name honored throughout the world I The commercial problems which the country will face tace after atter the war j Hughes said will be greater than ever I TTe We We must save this country every every day it wont won't be saved by letting Jetting It I drift It wont won't be saved by taking everything for tor granted Its Industries wont won't be conserved by Indulging in I good wishes around the club table We have got to take account of ot the lessons learned on the other side and apply them We have got to consider honest business with the success and pride that It deserves and we have got to fearlessly condemn abuses Have Basis Dasis for Success We have got the blasts lasis for success For what we now n need ed is first the motive power of unswerving loyalty and a real consciousness of national unity which will fill us with a dominant domi domi- nant sense of ot patriotic loyalty to the United States I With that we want a conception of ot real government We want to be well welt prepared well organized commercially and Industrially We have got to match organization w with th organization preparedness preparedness preparedness pre pre- abroad with preparedness at home In all things In opening his address Hughes declared declared de do- dared that while he was speaking to toi the Portland Advertising club he was ce wasa a member of ot the Republican Advertising Adver Adver- club For the present I am spokesman of ot that organization he continued It was was' not ever thus After the laughter laughter laugh laugh- ter which greeted this sally had subsided subsIded subsided sub sub- sided the nominee continued w A short time ago I was long on silence and short on talk now I am long on talk and short on silence The reason Is that I was s in Oregon Praises Oregon People Hughes' Hughes reference to the action of of Oregon Republicans in Instructing their delegates to the Chicago convention for tor him was greeted with applause I Iwas Iwas Iwas was Intent on observing the obvious proprieties of ot the position that I held ho he said It was a place of great distinction dis die and power In which I was content to remain When suggestions came from Oregon th that t I should run In your primary I was very curt In re re- re fusing I had no desire to run ron I wanted to remain alone But they reckon ill ili who leave Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon out You listened and did what you pleased and for tor the first time in the history of the country a state court a federal judge In speaking of ot preparedness Hughes said Of I I desire to see lee the tho United States States States' i holding its Us head erect among the peoples peo peo- ples pies ot of the earth not trembling not blustering but ready for any emer emer- gency We have In this country opportunities that dazzle the Imagination I These said Hughes could best be developed under uder an efficient form of ot government in the hands of ot men who believed in protecting American indus indus- tries Indus |