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Show IS lEW'S FUTURE I ' BESTS WITH HUGHES I Promises Protective Tariff I 1 1 That Will Prevent Disaster I : After War Closes, fn ! Are we prepared for the blow that Hi f -v-ni result from the beginning of a J K business war? Can the American nail na-il tion, under Its present system of reg-illl reg-illl ulation for safeguarding business, I i withstand the crash that will take Jill place at the close of the armed strife Jj i in. Europe u Perhaps a lean larder will serve as a 1(111 remedy for the indigestion that will I it i follow gormandizing on the back flood 11 fl of many money fat from the Enroll Enro-ll n pean markets, but that condition will If not prevent suffering among the count-1 count-1 ij less number, who have profitted M J neither by the European brother's mis-ill mis-ill j fortune, nor the American manufac-il manufac-il 1 turer's fortune. Ij M The war has made a few rich rich-ffl rich-ffl ' cd and a few poor, poorer. Wages, I except In a few instances, have not I ; increased correspondingly with the 1 cost of living. We are living artlfi- N cially. Our respiration is artificial Ij j' pulse accelerated under the stimulus 1 (f of an artificial business, which, like fj the drug, after it runs Its course, will S3 leave the system in a worst condition ill than it was before it was adminis !fi tcrd-W tcrd-W Napoleon, the mighty conquerer, , reaped the harvest of indifference that Si attended success. "On with the JB dance." he said. Wellington, while the French command was drunken m with the feast of revelry, struck the death blow to a nation's ambition. The ij conqueror, forgetting momentarily l j that he was a human being with hu-fl hu-fl man limitations, soared into the in-i in-i J finite space. Like a venturesome birdman, he sailed into an atmosphere HJ of uncertainty and there met the force 111 he c6uld not overcome. Home fell fjj for a like reason. j! We are drunken with illusioned sue-II sue-II till ecss. We have lost control. Wo r.re a I following false leadership, swayed by M j false standards. It is time for the SH 111 j American people to awaken to true jl j conditions. Throw off the yoke that m r has been placed by the crown of in-fj in-fj Ij difference and gross error. We must m H actand act now. HJ With the return of better judg-1 i ment, the American peo)lo will not ij III I allow any set or coterie of men, rep-si rep-si resenting certain business principles, ill III I which have proved unsafe, to plunge If! U this nation into the ignomity or dis-jM dis-jM I aster of defeat before a foreign coni-jl coni-jl petitor. They will not permit history fl to repeat itself in the case of the j III American nation. I j To perpetuate the integrity and HI I safety of American business, proper safeguards against encroachment or V I destructive effects of underselling must jj be established. Mr. Hughes promises Ullll that with a protective tariff, and his I record shows that he is a man. of his word. The American voter has the I choice of two courses. His judgment llll 'will compel him to act wisely on clec-nj clec-nj tion day. mm Read what' Mr. Hughes said re- iljj garding a protective tariff: i We want abundant ipportuni-jRfjl ipportuni-jRfjl ties for work in this co'untry, the DUI nominee asserts. We can not Bill have them unless we foster Amcri-Bjrj Amcri-Bjrj can industry. I am glad to stand for the old Republican party, re-llll re-llll united, reconsccreatcd, since in , J this time of economic problems, that party has a peculiar rigm to serve the American people because be-cause it carries on its banner the words. "Protection to American . Industry." If our factories are going to be run full time, or run at all, if new enterprises are to bo started, wo must have reasonable protection against the. lower paid labor of other nations. The tirst thing that the workman work-man wants is work. There is no social Justice that can be erected on unemployment. There aro no opportunities for good wages and good hours in mere agitation, without enterprise and industry. You have got to keep your mill open before you can pay ! anything to anybody. You must have business increase before the opportunities of prosperity can be diffused. We had a little case awhile ago of the application of the doctrine doc-trine of a tariff for revenue only. It closed shops; it threw hundreds hun-dreds of thousands out of employment. employ-ment. Throughout our land men were walking the streets, looking look-ing for jobs. Does anybody suppose sup-pose that the American people have forgotten what happened only a little more thnn two years ago The tariff discussion of this day is not like some of the discussions discus-sions of years ago. This is a very . vital discussion. We aro going to see nations emerge from this war with a tremendous incentive to pav war bills by production to the extent of their ability. They are sing to emerge, despite the horrors and wastes of war, extraordinarily extra-ordinarily disciplined, extraordinarily extraordin-arily efficient, with a wonderful self-knowledge self-knowledge command of their resources. re-sources. They are going ahead to produce to the extent of their ability. abil-ity. And America must prepare in peace, by its talent and the wise exercise of governmental power, to protect itself in order that our products may be made according to our wage scale, in deference to our standard of living liv-ing instead of being flooded by products with which we cannot because of a lower wage scale and a different standard of living. That is good common sense. And if the time ever was in an American Ameri-can community when an outright free trader or a beliver in tariff for revenue only could explain his views plausibly to the . American electorate that time has gone by. We know in this country from actual experience what we need and we propose that the great producing states of this country shall have a fair show by the application ap-plication of sound American business busi-ness principles. |
