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Show CHAIRMAN HILLES ON THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Hi- "The Claims of Root, Weeks, Bo- B rah and Others Reviewed By B t . . a Practical Party Man He , The next president of the Unl- Hpi ted SUitcfl must be a nennoned B ' statesman, n mnn of clear, sound Hf' jufiHicnt, equipped by experi- 'l exec in public nffnirs to dcnl Hf ! with the grave problems which H li wiM be presented with the Euro- iHJ pout war on its termination, and B$ cnouB" force and breadth of vision to correct the lamentable lament-able economic errors of tho present pres-ent administration. The next president should be a man who is self reliant without with-out being self sufficient, who is not onlycapable himself but big enough, and broad enough to neck and take advice front those moat competent to give it. He should be a mnn who regards liimaclf as neither omnipotent nor infallible and who realizes , thai a conscientious and effi- Hit cicnt president must be under Bjf and not above the law. H The next administration will Hgj be epoch making in tho history 3 of the nation. If then the Euro- Hl pcan war shall have ended, this H& country will bo confronted by a Hjfj very serious economic and dip- Htft lomatic situation. And if the Hrl war still continues, the United Hk States will be called upon to Hf conduct its diplomatic affairs ji witlt n delicacy and skill not HI hcrcloforo displayed. A kind Hl providence lias saved us thus far B1 from the momentous conscqucn- Hl ccs .of certain diplomatic blun- fl dcrn but as the war endures and HR the nerves of foreign statesmen H become worn and frayed, a repc- 1 titioH.of that amnteui'lsh swag- 1 Keritig v.'hich earlier character- H bed tho conduct of our foreign relations by this administration j -would inevitably drag the Unl- H ted Stales into war. How near- H ly tliese blunders have already H involved us in tho European con- H flkt is a facl which is gradually Hfl permeating the public : while tho 1 j4f4orable conduct of our rela- Hjj "TJbw with Mexico, including tho Hl Qixotic invasion of Vera Cruz, 1 should have no repetition in the "history of our nation. H Kiitd of Man Needed. H! TJtu United States is a great Hf commercial and agricultural na- Mj tkm. For its chief executive it H needs n mnn whoso pre-eminent H qualification is executive ability, H that quality which makes for H nucccas in all great enterprises, Hj -which enables one to select the B -wisest and most competent as- H Kocintcs. to delegate rcspoiiBiblU H ily to them and to hold them to HHj a strict accountability for the H results. Ho should no more be H hfu own secretary of state than H ho should bo hla own attorney H jrenernl. This is an age of ape. 1 cialization and a wiso chief ox- Hl ccutivo need experience no dif ficulty in procuring men peculiarly pecul-iarly competent each to deal with the problems of his ow department and to perform the duties assigned to him, A president pres-ident who undertakes to administer admin-ister the complex affairs of tho nation under tho inspiration of silent nnd interior contemplation contempla-tion nnd then stand out pre-eni incnt against the background of mediocrity which ho has created crea-ted will not only mnko a failure himself but -will bring upon his country disaster of unparalleled proportions. Only tho European war has saved tho United States from a period of finnncinl depression as much greater than those which have marked previous democratic democrat-ic administrations as tho country coun-try is larger than it was when those administrations existed. With greatly increased imports the revenue produced by tho democratic tariff, including the income tax, is woefully Insufficient. Insuffi-cient. Tho treasury is empty and already new forms of taxation taxa-tion are being considered by tho democratic leaders. In numerous numer-ous localities business has been prostrated by tho foreign competition com-petition mado possible by the Underwood bill, nnd in all others the story would have been the snino had not tho war temporarily temporar-ily paralyzed tho productive activity ac-tivity of the greatest manufacturing manufac-turing and agricultural nations of Europe. The War Was a Savior. The steel industry is booming now, but why? Simply because of tho extraordinary demand for steel products occasioned by tho war and because competition from Canadian industries has been suspended while Canada is engaged in supplying the war's needs. Soon after tho Underwood Under-wood bill was passed tho Canadian Cana-dian manufacturer of steel rails invaded our market and sold rails at prices which could not be met by American mills without a Boverc cut in wages. Sixty-five Sixty-five per cent of tho men engaged in tho steel industry in tho United Uni-ted States were thrown out of work. Thcso conditions would obtain today were it not for tho war and the demands has mado on tho Canadian nnd American Am-erican mills alike, and they will obtain ngnin when tho war is over unless those duties which heretofore prevented unfair competition of foreign mado rails are restored. Canada maintains main-tains a high protectivo wall so that we cannot counter her competition. com-petition. In the West tho removal of tho tariff on lumber and shingles shin-gles has paralyzed that important impor-tant industry. Canadian pro- Juccrs, employing Mongolian and East Indian labor at $1.50 md less per day, havo taken the business, nnd their shipments Of lumber into tho United States havo increased 800 per cent since the Underwood bill went into effect. Half tho lumber mills in the state of Washington stood idle in 19M, thousands of men were thrown out of employment, and tho loss to labor engaged in thnt industry in that state alone was estimated at $1,260,000 in 1914. Tho most noticeable characteristic charac-teristic of our democrat friends is that they never learn by experience. ex-perience. Democratic history is replcto with wholesome warnings warn-ings As far back as 1837 the president, Van Uuren, found himself confronted with-the necessity nec-essity of bringing to tho attention atten-tion of congress tho deplorable condition in which the Jackson administration hnd loft the nation's na-tion's finances. President Buchanan writing to congress nine month: after tho passage of the "Progressive Free Trade Act," declared that the crops were bountiful nnd that manufacturing wns flourishing, flour-ishing, and yet he wjis compelled to describe tho nation's financial affairs as "in a deplorable condition." con-dition." President Cleveland wns elected elec-ted on a platform promising a radical downward revision of the tariff. Four months after his inauguration he waH compelled to advise congress thnt "the di ! trust and apprehension co'iccm-ing co'iccm-ing the financial situation which pervade all business circles have already caused great loss and damage to our people, and threaten to cripple our mediants, me-diants, stop the wheels of mnnu facture, bring distress nnd nri-vntion nri-vntion to our farmers, and withhold with-hold from our workmen the wage of Inbor." And President Wilson, wore ho equnlly frank, would use tho Mime words In his next message to congress, adding add-ing only the phrase, "except where tho European war, by stopping foreign production, has proved an antidote to the democratic demo-cratic tariff bill." When Work Is Resumed. The European war may long endure, but it may stop at any moment. When it does stop, the millions of men now fighting fight-ing in thn trenches and on the battlefields of Europe will return re-turn to their normal vocation. Then Europe will flood tlif.4 country with cheap products in nn effort to get real money to rcgnin tho great quantities of gold which the belligerent nations na-tions arc now compelled to send hero to pay for supplies and munitions mu-nitions of war. Unless tho democratic dem-ocratic tariff bill shall have been rcplnced with an intelligent and consistent tariff law, there will bo disaster throughout the land. To safeguard against such calamity cal-amity our next president must be sound on the subject of protection, pro-tection, keenly alive to tho requirements re-quirements of business, commanding com-manding tho respect of the people peo-ple nnd heedful alike of tho needs of tho consumer and producers, pro-ducers, a constructive executive, so competent to lend that he need not drive, inspired by higher ambitions than n desire to subjugate a co-ordlnnto part of the government to his will, caring more for tho substance of performance than for beauty of well turned phrases. All thnt Van Huron nnd Hu-channn Hu-channn and Cleveland were compelled com-pelled to say regarding tho "deplorable" "de-plorable" financial conditions into in-to which democratic incompetence incompe-tence had plunged tho nffairs of tho country npplies with even greater force to the record of this administration. Finding in the treasury a balance of $73,-000,000, $73,-000,000, the present administration administra-tion has converted it into a deficit. def-icit. Tho shortage for last year was approximately $00,000,000, and for tho first hundred dnys of this fiscal year it amounts to $32,500,000, as against $16,500,-000 $16,500,-000 for the like period of tho last fiscal year. Tho country needs a president and a congress who know how to conduct the nffairs of tho nation without creating' such deficits and imposing im-posing upon tho people nn inordinate inor-dinate burden of taxation. In a vain effort to conceal the eollosal failure of the Underwood Under-wood tariff law as a revenue producing measure and to deceive de-ceive tho public as to the facts, democratic orators arc going about tho country asserting that tho loss of revenue Is solely duo to the European war and completely com-pletely disregarding the fact that despite the European wnr tho Imports during the Inst fiscal fis-cal year exceeded those of the lastyear of the Payne tariff bill by 21,000,000, rind those of the year ending with June, 1911, by $150,000,000. it is a startling start-ling fact that the average rate of duty this calendar year on all Importations, free nnd dutiable, Is less thnn 11 per cent. The valuations of Importations in July nnd August wns $281,97'!,-375; $281,97'!,-375; tho duties received were $30,7GG,183, which averages 10.71. In June the average was 11.39; May, 11.93; April, 9.97; and Mnrch, 12.-1. Under the last democratic tariff bill, when duties du-ties were so low that disaster followed, the average rate on nil importations wns 21.9 per cent. This was the average for the thirty-five months of the existence of the Wilson-Gorham bill. Tho rates fixed in the Wll-son-Gorhnm tariff law, if applied ap-plied to the importations under the present democratic tariff law, would havo produced double tho revenue. Under the present law a further reduction of forty-five forty-five millions will bo occasioned next year by tho removal of the duty on sugnr. This will pull the average 2.2 points lower, so thnt it will fall to less than 8.5 per cent. Great Pritain, which Is known as n free trade country, collected an average duty of 7 per cent prior to the wnr. She has increased her duties enormously, enor-mously, particularly on coffee nnd sugnr. It is believed that her nvcrage is now higher thnn ours; certainly much higher than ours will be unless tho democratic dem-ocratic administration admits its folly and repeals at the next session of congress the provision directed at the sugar producer. Tho democrats havo imposed not nlono an Incomo tnx, which they supposed would make up Tor a deficiency in the revenue duo to tho Underwood bill, but thoy have also imposed and collected col-lected for n year a special "war tax," despite tho fact that the United States has not been at war if wo except the ridiculous affair with Mexico and dospite the fact that the European wnr has not prevented a steady growth in tho imports to this country. Under those circumstances circum-stances it is hardly surprising that there Is a widespread demand de-mand for a president of sufficient suffi-cient economic sngaclty to -conduct the fiscal affairs of government govern-ment along business lines. Avnilable Timber. You may think I havo painted paint-ed a dismal pictue, and so it is but like all clouds it has its silver lining. Tho horizqn.is bright because all tho indications point to a restoration to power of the republican party. But the situation situ-ation of tho country reminds one of the negro frightened within nn inch of his life by tho Charleston Char-leston earthquake, who fell upon his knees in the field nnd implored im-plored the Almighty to come down and quiet tho quivering earth. And then ho ndded: "An' 0 Lord, (loan you send your Son, but come down yourself, for dls nlnt no child's job." The men who nre being most discussed as probable republican candidates for the presidency are men who have public records which arc as an open book. There nre among them, for In-stnnce In-stnnce ex-Senators Hoot and Knox, both of whom havo seen service In the cabinet as well as in the Bcnnte; ex-Scnntor Fairbanks, Fair-banks, who also served as vice presldont; ex-Scnntor Burton, who has to his credit a long and distinguished public career; Senators Sen-ators Sherman, Cummins, Borah, Bor-ah, Curtis, Smith and Weeks, still members of tho upper house; Justice Hughes, who made an admirable record as governor of the Empire State, and Governors Whitman of New York, and Willis of Ohio, nnd the Hon. Jnmes R.Iann, minority minor-ity floor lender of tho house of representatives. Democrats Wiped Out. Fortunately the republican party hns an abundnnco of presidential presi-dential timber from which to choose. And perhaps it is just as fortunate that up to this time no one man nppears to be far in the lead, for tho prospects are that tho next republican convention conven-tion will be such in the true sense of tho word, a convdntion at which tho will of the voters will be freely exprossed and thnt man chosen who in the compos-to compos-to judgment of the people enn best serve his country in its hour of need. As straws show which way the wind blows, so do the primaries nnd minor elections elec-tions thus far held point to the success of tho republican candidate. candi-date. Take for instnnce the registration reg-istration for the September primaries pri-maries in Pittsburg, where, by tho way, such transient prosperity pros-perity as results from wnr orders or-ders hns been especially notlce-nblo. notlce-nblo. Out of the totnl registration registra-tion of 79,500, the republicans numbered 07,500 as against 7,-900 7,-900 domocrats, loss than eeven hundred progressives, thirteen hundred socialists, the lest scnt- ,ft "K ' 1912 gave Wilson 'vol? Mnft ?3'002 nnd Roofle-volt Roofle-volt 30,000 votes. Tho members 01 the progressive party are cooperating co-operating and coalescing with , he republicans in every state! lew of them are thcro who In the nation's welfare for another an-other four yonrs to a party tint 'has once more proven that It Son nl ?uccwe invariably Sft0dKor t0 thorsy |