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Show TELLING TARIFF POINTS Let these telling points on tariff and protection In tho speech by Charles Hvnns Hughes, tho Republican Republic-an candidate for President, delivered last Thursday evening In tho Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed permanently permanent-ly In your mind and memory during ,tho remainder of tho campaign: We aro desirous of having strong nnd BUro tho foundations of our 'national 'na-tional greatness In this pursuit of competition among the nations which Is suro to follow tho cessation of the present struggle. I propose that tho Ilepubllcan party par-ty as the national party, according to tho constitution of the United States, within the national Bphere, shall proceed wherever It Is practicable, practic-able, to build up and foster and encourage en-courage American enterprise, and open op-en tho doors wide for honest American Ameri-can achievement. Then catno tho Underwood tarift bill itself. What was tho result? Kn-tcrprlsu Kn-tcrprlsu halted and there was a contraction con-traction of trado throughout tho land, and America, Instead of going ahead, stoppod. That Is what liupponcd. Threo hundred thousand were unum-i ployed In the city of New York. There was not n city In this land, where tho jobless man anxious nnd nblo to work did not walk the street. They were fed by our charitable organizations, or-ganizations, which were taxed to the utmost limit to provide for those for whom American enterprise could no longer niako provision. It wns a sai spectacle Americans hnvo not for-fotten for-fotten it. It Is not forgotten here or anywhere. It cannot be forgotten, it Is too recent. If you aro going to have the basis for prosperity In this country; if you aro going to protect tho American wago scalo; If you are going to havo American enterprise nblo to meet the competition which will follow tho ending of this wnr, you must have an honestly devised, wisely framed tariff law to protect American industry. indus-try. No, tho Democratic party will not be saved by the European war. If you would know what our condition will bo when thnt war ends, think of what our condition was beforo that wnr began, If you think thepe nations na-tions aro so impoverished that thoy cannot again turn to work. Those millions of men now lighting aro bettor bet-tor able to work than over beforo In tholr lives. . . . Their factories aro thoro; their plants aro there; thoy know themselves better than ever beforo. be-foro. They aro better disciplined, more alert, keener, stronger, bettor physically than ever beforo In the main,- nnd they are ready to turn great national energies into tho pur-huUs pur-huUs of pence to pay, their war bills, to produce up to the limit, to send their goods throughout the world. fproposs that wo shall study this out, applying a principle that wc believe be-lieve In, and secure intelligently and honestly adequate protection to American Am-erican Industries In overy part of this land. Herald Ilepubllcan. |