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Show SOCIALIST NOMINEE PREDICTS DISASTER PASADENA. Cab. 0 t. 17. "Both Republican Re-publican ana1 Democratic parties confess a desire to establish our foreign trade so :is t" absorb tiie production of American factories." declared Allan !. Benson, Socialist, So-cialist, nominee for president, at a meet-mtr meet-mtr here tonight. "I have said again and again the draft law President Wilson signed and our unparalleled un-paralleled military appropriations have ''iitcine purpose." be continued, "and that is ''he holding of foreign trade Knropean capitalists lost. All nations of Europe will combine against us at (lie end of the war to get It back. Why should American capitalists be permitted to plunge the nation na-tion Into war. when America's true policy is to promote domestic consumption. Late today Mr. Benson met George K. KirUpatrick, his running male on the Socialist So-cialist ticket, for the lirst time since their notification. Mr. Benson will speak in Los Angeles tomorrow night. j |