Show A 44 Necessity After the WI War ar HUGHES has mado made free tree use GOVERNOR G of or all aU tho the Issues of or tho the campaign in his swing about tho the circle circle circie but to none of ot them ha has ho given hen more prominence than the necessity sib for the restoration of or protective tariffs The nominee Is a Q t Republican and he recognizes protection to to bo be tho the ti first t and foremost basic doctrine of or the Republican part party Without it ft it national and individual prosperity never ne has endured and never can It Is la tho the prime essential to tho the progress progress re ress of or Industrial America But one method clan can prevent tho termination termination tion of or existing ng American prosperity at ot tho close cloo of or the war and that method 1 Is Is' tho the protective pro pro- tariff The Time marl market et tho the American pro producer is enjoying In Jn Europe will be taken from him b by tho European producer who I will apply appl to the pursuits of or peace tho I same organized mobilized efficiency he Is now applying applying applying ap ap- ap- ap plying to the tho pursuits of or war What Europe is now buying from Crom the United States Europe Eu- Eu ropo rope will then produce and in such surplus surilus las as will immediately react upon unon the time American I market unless the protective o tariff bars the way So plain is this truth that it has even cven swept tho the Democratic party from Its traditional traditional traditional basis in firm opposition to protective doctrine Under the party whip a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic Congress Congre has enacted a n. law Jaw which alms aims to prevent tho the dumping of or cheap foreign foreIgn for for- eign goods upon tho the American market after the war That law Is tho the Democratic method of or conceding In principle the necessity of or ortho tho the protective tariff but denying it In practice tice It seeks to employ the criminal courts to effect what a protective tariff would automatically au au- effect effect- without either spies or policemen and Is Js In tho the last analysis unworkable unworkable unworkable un un- un- un workable as Governor Hughes who may fairly be said to know something about law emphatically lb states Democratic tariff methods metho s proved themselves themselves them them- selves an utter failure before the time war just justas justI as thc they are arc certain to prove provo themselves so I after alter the thc war var The Tho Underwood law not only failed Called to Justify Itself as a a. revenue measure I but it operated economically in a aVa Va way that In ten months converted a favorable foreign for for- eign olga tra trade c balance f Into an m unfavorable balance of For tho first time In tho the history of oC tho the republic specIal special cial taxes proper only Iii Iri time of or war were Imp Imposed upon a P people o Ile at peace Thc They were called war taxes cs merely merelY mere mere- ly lt because because the tho war war seemed to furnish an excuse although It could not to ho cited as asa asa asa a reason for tor them But for tot tho the war war tho the Wilson rD Democratic administration would have ha followed the example set act by the Clove Clove- i land Democratic administration and have Issued bonds to raise mise mone money to pa pay ordinary p running expenses expense of or the government A pro prosperous people is not Inclined to Inquire closely Into the tho sources of or prosperity ro To the tho superficial it Jt hike liko lookin looking look look- in lag ing a gift horse In tho the mouth a proverbially unspeakable it species of or ingratitude The fact that prosperity exists suffices them and they I are content the future shall shaH bo be on the knees of of tho the gods But the tho government erected by these prosperous people must bear the re responsibility re- re of looking forward of ot determining lag inS what ought to bo be d done don n to meet a situation situa tion which may arise arIe antI and which now be because because because be- be cause a a. war is going forward and must sonic some someday day terminates terminate is certain to arise 1 l I vu vu 1 LX- LX Uc De as conditions con con- before the war What Europe may los lose in aggregate of or production because of or orthe the he hundreds of thou thousands n s of or workmen killed nn ami the additional thousands of or f Workmen workmen workmen work work- men injured beyond possibility of ot complete completo recovery Europe will gain sain in increased All the time belligerents have been learnIng learning learn- learn Ing ng that mobilized Industry is necessary to waging successful warfare they will be bo less than ban Intelligent ent if It they do not apply the les los lessons lesions sons ions of ot war to the problems of or peace pence The They p will fight the United States Industrially and commerCially Just as the they now are fighting one another mother with arms in their hands Industrial and commercial America must be prepared for Cor tho the struggle The American producer and manufacturer will need every assistance and encouragement th r government government govern govern- ment mont can give them Tho The American work- work Ins share In the benefits A protective pro- pro tariff alone will solve th the problem which the close clofe of or the war will wilt present and that Governor Hu Hughes hes and the tho party he represents proposes tho the country shall have Ambassador Elkus who is replacing at Constantinople Democratic statesman stateman who came camo home to raise rase funds fund's for tor Mr Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's re-election re campaign announces that he finds ample provisions both in Berlin and Vienna One of tho the es essentials of ot a dIplomat dip dIp- lomat is to see much and sa say little which leads heads us to believe that Mr Ir Elkins while an excellent Democrat is a poor diplomat Notwithstanding the conspicuous failure of or tho the Atlantic City police to control the brevity of or bathing suits suit and the tho absence of ot stockings the school board o of Kansas City Is Js resolved to compel the tho high school girls to wear a uniform evidencing c that ono one may b bo elected to a a. school board an and still sun re remain romain romain ro- ro main a hopeless dullard Commissioner lone m Scheid tho or discovering ering the tho character of or tho the rooming houses in Commercial street treet Is roundabout a n. trifle tri trl- tb flo tedious and ma may require some somo time but bUl there appears no reason why It should hould not prove provo efficacious Italy Itah hayn decided to adopt tho the blacklist blacklist blacklist black black- list It Is 15 not quite possible to determine whether Ital Italy 1 Is at war like Great Britain which Invented the blacklist or at peace like tho the United States which adopted It An American ranchman named Louis has just been 1 killed hilled In Mexico doubtless tor tho sole purpose of ot embarrassing embarrassing embar embar- r rassing ln the administration The news headline Germans Confiscate Belgian Bank Danle Funds suggests that burglary under any other name would smell as sweet r r 4 I |