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Show i AHACK IS MADE I ONMRJOGIS If Assistant Secretary of War 9 Tells What Hughes' Atti-3j Atti-3j tude Would Have Been. ; 11 Naples, Maine, August 26. -Wil-iiam M. Ingraham, assistant secretary I of war, In a speech here tonight, de- I 1 dared uiai president Wilson's admin " I istratlon has given the country the I best army bill that has ever been passed. Ho said that the measure rc-1 rc-1 centl' passed by congress and signed 1 by the president was the beginning of i legislation of a character that means . in a comparatively short time the Unl. i ted States will have an army adequate i for defense in anj- emergency. Mr. Ingraham, who Is a native or. i Maine, returned today to make a , Eerlcs of speeches In behalf of the 1 Democratic state ticket. . j "It is a struggle" he said In part, j "between a party that has been tried and not found wanting and a party -i (hat seeks to gain power by means of general criticism, and can not offer ;- ', any constructive plan of legislation to ' i- supplant that which It seeks to de- : stroy." Discusses Preparedness. ! Mr. Ingraham discussed the subject ' of preparedness. He said: : "The Republican candidate is do- Iing all he can to make politics out of the Mexican situation. The trouble in C-: i that country started during the ad-t! ad-t! ministration of President Taft, and IS? , was consequently handed down as a legacy to the present administration. $ ' The policy that Judge Hughes now M I criticises is a perfectly natural one !3 1 to navo fIlov;ert in the face of events fU i as they occurred in Mexico. II ; "This administration wants to do if the right tiling In protecting ItB clti- H ) zens and its honor, but it is not going Bj ; to get itself involved prematurely. If W ; re were now at war with Mexico, I tell you what you would be hearing. B Charles E. Hughes would be going H ! around the country telling the people B ;' that there as no need of any war; that B ': the whole country of Mexico was not B ;, worth it; that the lives and treasure B being spent was the result of too hasty B J action and entirely needless; that If E '! we had given the Mexicans time, B ) they would have settled their own B i troubles; that we had no just cause B J tor a conflict; that no great principles B irere involved, and so forth." B Country's Prosperity. B . Mr. Ingraham continued: B 'The prosperity of today is the re- B ?ult of the wise, liberal and progres- ' I sive legislation- enacted by the Demo- cratic party during the three and one's one-'s half years it has been in power. If I the administration passed only that j one great piece of legislation, name-i name-i ly, the federal reserve act, it would I have been worth while to have had the Democrats In power for that alone. j If the Republicans had passed such ' an act in the beginning of the Roose-1 Roose-1 relt administration, the panic of 1907 j would have been averted. ) "You don't hear the bankers com. plaining now; all seem satisfied. I ' often think of the courage it took to j pass an act like this one. I remember ; how the American Bankers' assocla- J tion were practically unanimous 5 against it at the beginning. It took I the wisdom, foresight and courage of our great president to insist on the I passage of this beneficial legislation." |