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find in the antitrust laws will be re
moved. I was a lawyer once myself
before I reformed and I ran divide a
hair ’twixt north and northeast side,
but I do not think it is worth while,
and I do not think that statutes are
the places for ingenuity. A statute
is intended to lay down a broad and
comprehensive and national policy,
and it ought to be read in that light.
But there would be no fun in punctua
tion if you had to read it that way!
The function of legislation in the im
mediate future In this country is go
ing to be to remove all ingenious con
etructions and make it perfectly
clear what the liberties as weli as
the restraints of trade are in this
country.
Weed of Merchant Marine
"And then there must be co-opera
tion, not only between the govern
ment and the business man, but be
tween the business men. Shippers
must co-operate and they ought to
be studying right now how to co
operate. Ttere are a great many gen
tlemen in other countries who can
show them how, and they ought to
look forward, particularly to caring
for this matter, that they have vehi
cles in which to carry their goods. We
must address ourselves immediately
And as. rapidly as possible So the re
creation of a great American merchant
marine. Our present situation is very
Itke this: Suppose that a man who
' had a great department store did not
have any delivery wagons and de
pended on his competitors in the same
market to deliver his goods te his cus
tomers You know what would hap
pen. They would deliver their own
goods first and they would deliver
yours only if yours were to be de-
Myered upon the routes followed by
their wagons. That is an exact pic
ture of what is taking place in our
foreign trade at this minute. Foreign
vessels carry our goods where they,
the foreign vessels, happen to be go
ing, and they carry them only if they
have room in addition to what they
are parrying for other people. You
cannot conduct trade that way. Thais
is conducting trade Oli sufferance. That
is conducting trade on a 'if you please.'
That is conducting trade on the basis
of service, the point of view of which
is not your advantage. Therefore we
eaiinot lose any tame in getting de
livery wagons.
"There has been a good deal of dis
cussion about this recently, and it
has beer, said 'the government must,
not take any direct part m this. You!
must let private capital do it’ and the:
reply was. ‘all right, go ahead.’ ‘Oh.
but we will not go ahead unless you
help us.’ We said, ‘very well, then.!
we Will go ahead, but we will not need j
your help because we do mot want to
.coihpete where you are already doing
the carrying business, but where you
are not doing the carrying business
,and it has to be done for some time
At a.Joss. We Will undertake to do it
at a loss until that route is established ’
and wa will give piece to private
capital whenever private capital is
ready to take the place.’ That sounds
like a very reasonable proposition.
‘We will carry your goods one way
when we have to come back empty
the other way and lose money on the
voyage and when there are cargoes
both ways and it is profitable to carry
them we shall not insist upon carry
ing them any longer.’
‘'And it is absoltuely necessary now
t<? make good our new : connectiois.
Our new connections are with the
great and rich republics to the south
of us. For the first time in my rec
ollecticn they are beginning to trust
and believe in us and want us, and
one of my chief concerns has been
to see that nothing was done that did
not show friendship and good faith on
our part. You know that it used to
be the cate that if you wanted to
travel comfortably from New York to
’ a South American port you had to
go by way of England or else stow
' jWiWßelf away in some uncomfortable
fashion in a ship that took almost as
long as you go straight and within
whose bowels you got in such a tem
per before you got there that you
did not care whether she got there or
not. The great interesting geograph
ical fact to me is that by the opening
of the Panama canal there is a
straight line south from New York
through the canal to the western
coast of South America, which hither
to has been one of the most remote
coasts in the world, so far as we were
concerned; and that the west coast
of South America is now nearer to us
than the eastern coast of South Amer
ica ever was to us. so that we have
the open Atlantic upon which to ap
proach the east coast.”
• "America has stood in the years pas*
for that sort of political understanding
/among men which would Ipt every
man feel that his rights were the
• same as those of another and as good
as those of another and the mission
•of America in the field of the world's
commerce is to be the same, that
when an American comes into that
competition he comes without any
'arms that would enable him to con
quer by force, but only with those
peaceful influences of intelligence, a
••desire to serve. a knowledge of what
'.he is about before which everything
softens and yields and renders itself
subject. That is the mission of Amer- i
ica and my Interest, so far as my small
part is concerned, is to lend every
bit'of Intelligence I have to this in
teresting. Shis vital, all-important mat
ter of releasing the intelligence of
America for the service of mankind.”
. WILL APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN
. President Will Make Address at
Shadow Lawn
' President Wilson, it was announced
•In New York last week, will address
members of the -oung men’s demo
cratic league at Shadow Lawn. Long
•Branch. N. J., on the 30tli, which has
been designated by the democratic na
tional committee as "young men's
day.” The president, it was said,
would make a special appeal for the
support of all young met throughout
the country. According to the nation
a! committee the young men’s demo
: cratic league has organisations in 40
states.
• It was indicated Wednesday night
that continued reference by Charles
. E. Hughes, the republican nominee, to
the settlement by the president of
the recently threatened railroad strike
has led Mr Wilson to determine to
devote much of his attention in his
forthcoming speeches to this subject.
• Officials said he plans to repeat his
belief that society has sanctioned the
eight-hour day and to point to Ms
'' program of legislation recommended
■ to Congress as the best possible meth
od of avoiding railroad strikes in the
• future.
President Wilson also plans to at
tack the republicans for bringing sec
’ tlonabam into the campaign, It was
•aid by officials. This attack will be
, based on the reference of republican
, speakers to the number of committee
dhalrmanshlps in Congress held by
southern senators and representa-
; oy XJQUQR issue
Assertion Made in California That
’ President Opposes Prohibition
' Whether President Wilson Is op-
I posed to prohibition became an Issue
In California's heated wet and dry
fight at San Francisco, Cal., test week
with the return to
the state of the coast-to-coast pro
hibition campaign train. Asser
tions made in a “wet” pamphlet free
ly distributed at the prohlbltoh meet
ings along the San Joaquin valley yes
terday that the president is among 11
widely-known Americans, including
former President Taft and Cardinal
Gibbons, who "favor temperance but
oppose prohibition" was questioned by
Dr Ira Landrith, the prohibition vice
presidential candidate. Later last night
Oliver W. Stewart, national campaign
manager for the prohibitionists, tele
graphed the president, asking if the
“wets” in California were misrepre
senting his attitude.
“The president will not defy the suf
frage lightnings of the 19 dry states'
wrath,” said Landrith. “by confirm
ing the accusation that he is opposed to
prohibition in any state. Let him make
such a proliquor declaration and his
defeat is as sure as his friends now
believe his election is certain. But
this official change that he is an anti
prohibitionist must now be disclaimed
or his silence will be interpreted as
assent."
PRESIDENT ELATED
He Predicts Success of National
Ticket in New York
Victory for the democratic ticket in
New York state in the November elec
tions was predicted by President Wil
son at Long Branch. N. J.,
last week Wednesday, following the
receipt of returns from the primaries
held Tuesday. The president indi
cated his belief that progressive vot
ers in New York will support the
democrats.
Taking his first active part in the |
campaign. Mr Wilson sent telegrams
of congratulation to William F. Mc-
Combs, the democratic nominee for
the United States Senate, and to Judge
Samuel Seabury, the nominee for gov
ernor. The massage to Mr McCombs
follows: "I congratulate you most
warmly on your nomination by the
democrats of New York for the United
States Senate. A united body of pro
gressive voters will be behind you.”
PRESIDENT NOT GOING
!He Abandons Proposed Visit to
Elephant Butte Dam
i Andrieus A. Jones, first assistant
I secretary of the interior at Wasfiing
' ton. has been designated by President
• Wilson as his special representative
t at the dedication of the great govern
ment dam at Elephant Butte. N. M..
[on October 14. The president had ex
pected to attend in person, but is un
; derstood to have abandoned the plan.
Secretary Lane, who also had planned
to be present, does not expect to be
able to go because of the prolonged
sessions of the Mexican-American
commission of which he is a member.
“Pennsylvania Day" at Shadow Lawn
Soon
Vance C. McCormick, chairman of
the democratic national committee,
notified the democratic state commit
tee at Philadelphia Saturday that
President Wilson lias fixed Saturday.
October 14. as Pennsylvania day at
Shadow Lawn, his summer home.
The committee is planning to send
delegations from all parts of Penn
sylvania to Shadow Lawn that day. A
feature of the gathering, which will
be addressed by the president, will
be a reunion of the delegates to the
Baltimore convention of 1912.
MURDOCK STANDS BY WILSON
His Paper Declares That the Presi
dent Was Right in Strike Set
tlement
Victor Murdock, editor of the
Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, and a pioneer
and leader of the progressive move
ment in the West, has declared un
qualifiedly in favor of President Wil
son’s course in averting a nation-wide
railroad strike. Referring to Candi
date Hughes’s opposition to the eight
hour bill and his insistence that arbi
tration should have been compelled
Mr Murdock’s newspaper says in
part: “But Mr Hughes, like the re
publican newspapers, failed to noint
out how this could have been done.
The railroad men took the position
that the eight-hour day was not arbi
trable. They refused flatly to arbi
trate. Under the circumstances, then
unless the eight-hour day was grant
ed. a Strike would have been in
evitable. Would Mr Hughes have
preferrd a strike, with its inevitable
burnings and disorder, its bloodshed
and prostration of industry, its stir
ring of class hatreds and suffering of
millions of people, to the settlement
that Mr Wilson effected; for the
strike of 1894 gives a faint idea of
what might have been expected in
1911) if the president, following Mr
Cleveland’s precedent, had attempted
to settle it by force.
"The great mass of people will un
doubtedly feel that Mr Wilson was
wiserln his generation than Mr Cleve
land. or than Mr Hughes. The
Adamson bill does not effect a perma
nent settlement. Further measures
are necessary and should be adopted,
as the president has recommended.
"As to the 'surrender' of the presi
dent of tne demand for an eight-hour
day, progressives demanded that
measure of social justice four years
ago, and it certainly ill becomes any
one who supported that platform to
rail at the president for helping to
secure for the railroad men a meas
ure so manifestly just to labor.’-’
STONE DEFENDS WILSON
Missouri Senator Praises President
for Action in Bailroad Matter
“A word about the so-called eight
hour law as related to railroad oper
atives," by William J. Stone, United
States senator from Missouri, was is
sued by the western national demo
cratic headquarters at Chicago last
week. Accompanying the statement
was an assertion that Senator Stone
was representing the thought of the
administration on the subject. The
statement said in part: —
“Messrs Hughes, Roosevelt. Root.
Lodge. Penrosej Crane, Pierpont Mor
gan, George W. Perkins and that en
tire genus maintain that the presi
dent and Congress surrendered to
force and thereby discredited public
authority and weakened the founda
tions of our governmental institution.
One weakness about this charge is that
it is false. Nobody threatened the
president or Congress: Nobody de
manded anything of them. There was
no controversy between the govern
ment and the railroad employes nor
between the government and the rail
road managements. The controversy
was purely industrial, waged between
several hundred thousand men who
actually operate trains on the one.
hand and the managers of the rail
roads on the other."
The statement then points out that
while the crisis existed senators and
representatives and members of tfie
administration were receiving com
munications from all sections of the
country indicating that the public sen -
timent almost universally favored any
reasonable means of averting this ca-
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916
tastrophe. The senator pointed out
the possible effects of a strike on the
fruit growers of the far West, farm
ers shipping grain on contracts, man
ufacturers of steel and textiles under
contract to be shipped, on the fuel
supply of the country and on the min
ing and timber industries and their
allied interests and dependents.
“The fact is.” He continued, "the
very threat of this nation-wide lock
up caused a big jump in the prices of
food, coal and all the necessities of
life and industry, and it is worthy of
note that when the danger was past the
prices went back to normal. These
are the things the president faced and
such the calamity he bravely, patient
ly. patriotically sought to avert. Who
blames him? Mr Hughes says he
should have investigated the questions
at Issue before acting. They seem to
think that although the house was on
fire the president should have inquired
into the cause of the fire before put
ting it out. instead of first putting it
out and investigating the cause.
“I can understand this argument
when made by men like J. Pierpont
Morgan. George W. Perkins and oth
ers of that type, but I am amazed that
Justice Hughes should adopt it. I am
amazed that he would ally himself
with Morgan—multimillionaire prince
of Wall street, maker and wrecker of
railroads, lord of the British ex
chequer in America. Is that really
the issue Mr Hughes presents to the
judgment of the American people? Fo>-
myself I proclaim this achievement,
considered in its immediate and patent
blessings, as one of the greatest in
the history of the republic."
PENNSYLVANIA DEBATABLE
That is Belief of Democratic
Leaders, According to McCor
mick
Leaders of the democratic national
campaign now believe that Pennsyl
vania is ; debatable and that there is
a chance to secure the electoral vote
of the state for President Wilson, ac
cording to Vance C. McCormick, the
national chairman, and A. Mitchell
Palmer, national committeeman from
Pennsylvania, who conferred at Phil
adelphia Thursday with prominent
democrats from all sections of the
state. At a similar conference held,
there less than a month ago Mr Pal- i
mer announced that the campaign in i
Pennsylvania w-otild be centered on an ।
effort to increase the congressional I
representation, but at yesterday's I
meeting it was announced every effort.
.would be made to carry the state for I
the whole ticket. The large num-i
her of railroad employes and others
who favor the eight-hour law passed
by Congress are among the reasons
Mr Palmer advanced for believing
that the state may swing to the demo
cratic column.
WILSON LEADS HUGHES
The Straw Tote Conducted by the
Independent Announced
The Independent of New York,
which Is incorporated with Harper’s I
Weekly, is conducting a nation-wide
poll among its readers, "a small, but
select, straw vote,” as it says. "The
letters are in from. 42 states, and all
but two from voters,” says the Inde- j
pendent. "Here’s the roll: Wilson’
leads with 146 votes —64 per cent ofi
the total: Hughes has only 61. Han
ley. the. prohibitionist, Benson, social
i Ist, and several disgusted voters who
i don't state their choice, make up
i the total df 229 letters." Commenting
I upon the poll, the paper continues:
I "President Wilson's biggest bid for
re-election, in the minds of Inde
pendent readers, is the legislative rec
ord of his party.”
The Independent cglls attention to i
the letter of Mrs A. C. Hindman ofi
Boise, Idaho, who stated in three sen-,
fence's her reasons why President I
Wilson should be re-elected, as fol-1
lows: "He kept us out of war. Hei
kept us out of war. He kept us out i
of war.”
J. C. George of Walla Walla.’
Wash., in his letter says he is sup
porting President Wilson “for great,
humanitarianism and proven abil- j
Ity. He is laying the foundation for’
permanent prosperity for all of the ’
people, all of the time.”
Edwin R. Bentley, superintendent'
of schools in Alpine, which is' near!
Boquillas. in the Big Bend country of I
Texas, which has been once raided by i
Mexican bandits, is for President ’
Wilson because he "has put the com- i
plicated border situation under con-I
trol without a costly war which the I
jingoes wanted.”
The Independent, analyzing the rea- I
sons assigned by those writing let-'
ters for Mr Hughes, says the strengthl
of the ‘TOO per cent candidate" looks
something like this: Personality and
record 33 per cent, down with Wilson
32 per cent, G. O. P. 20 per cent,
policies 15 per cent; total, 100 per
cent. ________
REED ANSWERS HUGHES
Missouri Senator Says Congress
Was Not Held Up by Labor ■
Unions
United States Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri in a speech at
Springfield, 111. Thursday at a state
democratic rally, replied to the at
tacks of Charles E. Hughes on the
Adamson railroad law, declaring that
Hughes generally had supported the
railroads and that “if Hughes had had
his way we would have been at this
moment engulfed In a catastrophe' so
enormous as to appal the imagina
tion."
Senator Reed charged Mr Hughes
with declaring "in substance and effect
that union labor, like a highwayman
with a pistol, approached Congress and
compelled it to enact an eight-hour
law and that Congress in a cowardly
and truculent manner surrendered the
dignity of the nasion to the unlawful
and violent demand of labor. Natural
ly Mr Hughes takes this view. It is
the assertion of at least some of the
railway presidents. It is not the first
time Mr Hughes has taken the side
of the railroads."
Senator Reed then cited instances
in which Mr Hughes, he said, when
governor of New York, had vetoed ;
a two-cent fare bill, a full crew bill,
and a five-cent street car fare bill.
After reading Mr Hughes's statement
that the Adamson law does not pro
vide an eight-hour day, but regulates
wages, Senator Reed charged that
the republican presidential candidate,
“when he delivered this utterance
might well have been accused of
plagiarism, for the same speech in
almost identical language was deliv
ered on the floor of the United States
Senate by such champions of the peo
ple as Reed Smoot of Utah. Jacob H.
Gallinger of New Hampshire and
Boles Penrose of Pensylvania.”
He reviewed the steps leading up to
the passage of the Adamson law and
declared that Congress did not yield
’ to the demands of either union labor
or the railroads. “Neither the rall
' way presidents nor the railway em
• ployes ever came to Congress or the
president with a demand of any kind
whatsoever. What would Mr Hughes
have done if he had been president
in this crisis?" asked Senator Reed.
“Mr Hughes does not dare denounce
the eight-hour law. Accordingly -he
seeks to avoid it by saying that Con
gress only provided that the men
should receive a full day's pay for
eight hours! and that as a matter of
fact the bill passed was simply a Bill
to increase the pay of the railroad
men.”
Senator Reed spoke in Coliseum hall
at the state fairground from the plat
form occupied by Mr Hughes 48 hours
before.
Senator Reed, when informed while
speaking that Hughes had condemned
the entire list of democratic legisla
tion in a speech at Milwaukee in
formed the audience of the news and
declared: “Why. if Hughes stands
on that, he won’t carry a township in
the United States unless they are pop
ulated by the people who belong in
lunatic asylums.”
Comment was general on the en- ।
thusiasm apparent in contrast tyith
the relatively-quiet reception, of
Candidate Hughes on his recent visit
there. William F. Kelly, a Springfield
sportsman, announced that he has
wagered S4OO with another sport that
Wilson will carry more states in Jthc
presidential election than Hughes;
SSOO to S4OO that Wilson will be the
next president.
DEFENDS CHILD LABOR LAW
Senator Cummins Says Republican
Attacks Are Unjustified
Falsity and nartisan 'unfairness in
the recent republican attacks upon
the child labor law participated in by
Candidate Hughes as well as by his
campaign manager, is charged in a
signed statement of Albert B. Cum
mins, republican. United' States sen
ator of ‘lowa, made public Monday.'
Characterizing the alleged discovery
by Chairman Wilcox of the republican
national committee of a “joker" in, the
child labor law as “without any foun
dation whatsoever,” and stigmatizing
the persons who have been giving
them publicity as “either Insincere or
incompetent," Senator Cummins rid
dles the preposterous claltos of both
Mr Hughes and his campaign man
ager. and declares the chiid labor law
as enacted by Congress at.d signed by
President Wilson is certain to “ef
fectuate the humane purposes toward
which the friends of child'labor leg
islation have for a long time been
striving.”
Senator Cummins's views are set
forth in a letter to Owen R, Lovejoy,
general secretary of the national
child labor committee, written on the
23d. The letter follows:—'
“I have just read your letter of
the 20th inst, suggesting that certain
critics of the recently enacted child
labor law claim to have discovered a
joker or jokers In the act which re
flect upon either the integrity or in
telligence of those who are respon
sible for its passage. These , criti
cisms are without any foundation
whatsoever and the persons who are
giving them publicity are either in
sincere or incompetent.
“The child labor .law received in
the Senate committee and on tne floor
of the Senate the most exhaustive con
sideration and those of us who wer®
for it employed the utmost care, to
exclude every possible objection ta.its
validity consistent with Its effective
ness. All of us underhand that, there
was in the bill a serious .eonstito
tional question which could • ntft he
avoided and which could be .answered
conclusively only by the supreme
court of Hie United States, bqt in oth
er respects the act is, I b^lldvc, with
out flaw. . „ '
"If republicans are making any such
charge against the law in order to
discredit the administration, the effort
is disreputable and must react upon
those who are foolish. enough to give
currency to the charge. If democrats
are endeavoring to impeach the good
faith of the republicans who helped to
compose and nass the oil!, they are
guilty of a flagrant offense against
public morals.
“Assuming that the supreme court
decides, if the question ever reaches
that tribunal, that Congress can reg
ulate interstate commerce in this way.
the act will be f >und so effective that
it will end for all time the employ
ment of children under conditions for
bidden fn the statute. The .claim, if.
it is'made. that the prohibition of the
statute can be evaded by retaining the
output of a mine, quarry, mill, can-/
nery. workshop, factory or manufac
turing establishment for o 0 days after
children have been employed, and that
then the output may be snipped from'
the state of production to some other
state, is not worthy of consideration.
With rare exceptions these industrial'
establishments are continuous in their
operation, and the notion that they*
can be so organized as to employ chil
dren in a prohibited work one month
and then dismiss them and run a
month without children, after which;
the output of the previous month will
be shipped, and then re-eqiploy chil
dren for another month and So On ad
infinitum, is supremely ludicrous r ,
“It is absolutely necessary to fix a
time. Otherwise a chilu once Im
' properly employed in any establish
ment would end forever (he right of'
the establishment to ship its output
beyond the state. Even the seasonal
establishments, such as canneries,
cannot hold their output 30 days after
I the season closes. I venture the pre
diction that np industrial concern will
ever attempt to evade the law in this
respect.
"I understand from your letter that,
it has also been claimed that the pro
ducer in any state could sell, either
absolutely or nominally, to a leaier
in the state, and that after 30 .days
the dealer could ship the product’ln
Interstate commerce. This is not true
for the dealer in the state of produc
tion must have a certificate fron^ the
producer or manufacture, that chil
dren have not been employed by the
producer under prohibited condi.ions;
and if the certificate is false, while
the dealer cannot be prosecuted, the
producer can oe.
“It is not less absurd to claim that
the producer can use a warehouse. tn
evade the law. In order to aopom
plish any such evasion ‘.he producer
must hold the goods in the mill, work
shop or factory for 30 days aftei the
employment of children has ceaaed, at
which time there will be no necessity
for using a Warehouse inasmuch as
the goods could then be shipped di
rectly.
“I have reviewed again the entire
subject and am thoroughly persuaded
that the act will effectuate the hu
mane purposes toward which the
friends of child labor legislation have
for a long time been striving."
CHALLENGE IS ACCEPTED
Hughes and Wilson College Leagues
Will Hold Debates
The challenge of the national Wopd
row Wilson college men's league ,for
a series of debates on the issues' ot
the present national uohtical cam
paign has been accepted bytthe
Hughes national college league. 're
publlcan national headquarters:'(an
nounced at New York last weelW'The
Hughes league has appointed a com
mittee to meet a committee of.'th#
Wilson league to arrange details.
AMERICAN RIGHTS
APPEAL OF HUGHES
' , A ’•'..J
CHEERED IN MILWAUKEE
Claims of Democratic Achievements
Refuted—Shipping Bill a
“Menace"
Charles E. Hughes,"‘before a-cheer
ing audience that filled the big audi
torium‘at Milwaukee last wCftk Wed
nesday. outlined his attitude toward
the protection of American" rights as
I follows:—
"I propose that we shall protect
and enforce American righto oh land
and sea without fear and unflinching
ly with respect to American lives,
American property and American
commerce. We have no unstated pol
icies. no secret understandings, no in
trigues, We stand ■ four-Squared to
the world, representing the United
States and its . interests’alone, first,
last and-all the time." "
Mr Hughes's reference -to American
.rights ’.was contained .to . a dpddch in
which he made reply one -by one to
whab'-he termed democratic claims for
haying aided businfess. arid outlined
the republican pbdgrajp In ‘.sb' doing
he dealt chiefly . with. ■ subjects .dis
cussed in President Wilson’s speech-of
acceptance. ■
The eMff.ung bill was characterized
as ''a'mercire. the sooner- removed the
bette^.’.’ ,‘‘Tli,e '.Uh'derwopd “tariff he
called ■a..-measure .“tiiat .must, be .Un
done if we are.' to have a sure basis
of prosperity iq' thi^ country." 'He
repeated . that j#®. antitrust Idw, in
stead qfcbeiqg eiapified.’by’ definition
had Weft 'made '(more uncertain.”
Tl^e -thte' hoihlnse
said... ■ tor ’ from . ieing ’, a ’,, ileipper'atic
measure, pure and simple, was. taken
in' great l dart -from- -material supplied
by a republican commission and . a
draft pf a republican bilL “Whatever
salvation from panic \ve have had
thus far was due to the enlightened
foresight, of ^gpublicap party,”
Mr FlUghessHM Ari-’ebnheßtfoh with
the extension of the Aldrich act dur
ing. the -threatened; fipapcial,. depress
sion in thp .eariy. days, of the' European
war. o
The child labor law. Mr Hughes
said, failed to protect' hundreds of
thousands of‘children lit w'ork'ih Vari
ous states tender democratic ddmiflls
trations. “Our Opponents claim "to
have emancipated children,” he said.
"They have not emancipated children.
Call. the. rqil of , states. and, you,. will
find that, thfl ■ Mates. -where, children
afe q;naaejp^tgd, ) iCroru,.ip9 early,' liihpr
are republican ~«Wtgs; ap4„ that' t tbe
states where child, labor..still,.exists
are under democratic, control’.'!,, H ... j
■ ;•■' —: — '
UPHOLD AMERICAN RIGHTS
CT. ■ ■
Hughes Speaks -at ; Lafayette,
. . Ind, _ " '
Cljaries. E;.k Hughes. ;*addr>essuj«; his
second audience of the day tn the
open-air at Lafayette, Iqd„ Thursday,
outlined , the ^policies,,fqr he
stands mid - delved , ,iw we® ted
<tp see,.. iw Jhe. JJmtad »,States- ,4^^at
.driving, iorep,.of patr^qtfe? s^njimgnt
which would furnish the motive pow.er
for progress. “I wart American
rights protected throughout ’ the
world,” Mr Hughes said; "I desire to
see a ’great' driving l fdree of 'spalmbCic
sentimehf Which will give 'Us the ■mo
tive poWer of' progress. We cannot
have progress-‘unless we have that
loyalty and loye of pur country which
will enable! us to get up'steam to sup
ply ..enor#y. jlAuiß tS£ft^A>rii we
may have that I say thei American
rights must t>ie protected throughout,
the*'world With'‘reltfect' tir' jftnattdan
lives’,'’property”Start bommeree with re
■spect.to. all..nat/Pnsi,of .Jhe world.”
OUSTING OF HUERTA
CS''.'. : U '. ■
Candidate Says President Insisted
on RegigiiaMbn of Mexican Chief
Tnstrucitjpna.-s^
-by. RreaWent Wilson’'to. John Xihd,' l»is
personal rtrpreserltative in,Mexico dur
ing Huertti’s 'tftfve, - were cited 'ln'
speeches by Char^es’E. ¥liigheS at Fort i
Wayne ^Thursday ail'd in Richnionfl.
Ind.. last night In support' bf 'Mr
Hughes's 'denial' t'hat the" adniliilStta-;
Hqs sought tp'jteit states
in Vie same spirlt-aa wlth, large states..
TI have only •. recently , rece’ived this
authentic . information, of. the. actual,
instructions that were given with .re
spect to the governmeite M^teo/
such as Mexico then had.” Mr Hughes
• said. “John Lind was authorized by
the executivg'to state 1 this proposition;
to a minister of another, government^
Mimr'y. ‘Huerta, will be put'out if he.
doesn’t get out. That it is the pref
erence of the president,that it.should
fr>e accomplished ,by domestic means,
if possible, hut that-if it cannot -be 1
done by domestic means other means
adequate for the purpose will be re-,
sorted to.’ r ’
“There is no basis for that in the
recognition of snaall. p states,” M
Hughie? . gddeij. I‘There no basis
for that in the .recognition of the
sovereignty of our neighbor. There
is no basis for 'that in a true and cpr
rect American policy. We departed
frbm an American policy and left our
citizens to suffer from the barbarity
which resulted when all government
was destroyed and anarchy was su
preme in Ntexfdo. It Is a deplorable
recital.” 1 '' '
In' his discussion of the adminis
trating's Mexican policy, Mr'Hughes
repeated that the question was not
one of recognition of Huerta, or of
his noh-recognition. “That is a mat
ter which presents a false issue,” he
said. “We have been told In .recent
days that small, states should have
the respect that great states enjoy.
We were told' by the administration
only a few days ago that our influence
on this hemisphere > eally depended
on our proving, demonstrating to our
neighbors. that we had no desire
officiously to meddle fn their affairs
or control their internal administra
tion. . It was said that wq must have
a demonstration of our absolute good
faith in dealing with the neighboring
nations. > '• •; ; ■
"Yet- the truth is that we did med
dle with their affairs- th w kvay which
forfeited to us the esteem -we should
have’enjoydd. and'finally resulted in
leaving ' Mexico • to- the ravages of
revoMftion without- prbt'setibn: oof apy
other country: ' Wc-fett them to" a*
anarchy which was indescribable ahd
to atrocities which will not bear repeti
tion in polite society," . k v
, SPEECHES IN INDIANA
Doctor Sprays Throat Between
Talks—Democratic Extravagance
. Charles E. Hughes reached ^mjth
Bend Friday night, at the far end of
his busiest day, almost with his voice.
He spent it in 12 speeches along the
way and talked to his audience at
South Bend Ind., last night at times
in a hoarse whisper. Utterly weary,
travel-stained, worn by the day’s ex
actions, which included shaking thou
sands of Indiana hands, the nominee
faced there a large audience in his
chief speech of the day.
During the day he took the program
into his own hands and fashioned a
anew, tb make it include a'speech at
every stopping place. At most of
these places it had been arranged that
ho would say only a few words, but
the big crowds that greeted him with
cheers and applause every few miles
heartened him, and he talked. His
doctor stood. beside him at almost ev
ery station 'ahd applied throat sprays
freely between talks, but his voice
.was flayed and ragged long before he
■reached South Bend.
When he reached South Bend Friday
,n|gbt Mr Hughes went at once to
‘the meeting place—his train was half
ah ‘hour late—and there dismissed the
Adamson law, the Mexican situation,
the protective tariff policy, prepared
ness. Americanism, protection of
American rights and extravagance of
administration methods. ‘The recent
session, which constituted only one
half' of the 64th Congress,” he said,
"appropriated in Cash $1,626,439,200
and. specifically authorized the addi
tional , expenditure of $231,945,275,
making li grand total of $1,858,384,-
484. The 63d Congress, which was
democratic-in all its branches, appro
priated $2,231,055,150. This was dur
ing the first half of the administra
tion. Deduct the special appropria
tion for preparedness from the total
.appropriations for the army and navy
son, the fiscal _year 1917 and the total
rewajns $1,217,336.619, an increase
over. , the appropriations of the pre
ceding session of $102,398,607, and an
Increase over the appropriations of
the record republican session of 1910
of $232,933,762.” Some of this money,
Mr Hughes said, had been wasted in
rivers and harbors appropriations “on
rivers that had little water” to recom
mend them to. commerce.
HEADS TWO-MILE PARADE
Nominee Says Aldrich-Vreeland
Act Prevented a Panic in 1913
' Indianapolis put on a red and yel
• low dress of fire Saturday night to wel
come Charles E. Hughes. His special
rolled into the station half an hour
■ahead of scheduled time, and the cele
bration upon which Indianapolis re
,PUbhcans have spent days-of prepara
tion was on.
They met him with a bedlam of
cheers, yells, factory whistles and au
tomobile sirens. They lighted their
firgworkg.. and plastered a patch of
figging red bd'the Indiana'sky.- They
fetopd by the"tens of thousands in the
streets'and ‘cheered Him jalong the
Way. ' Most’of the time .they, could not
see him through- the smoke,' but they
knew he was there, with Charles W.
Fairbanks. .sci& rurming, mete, in one
of the' first'autbmoDilwsl and rhey ehot
up more rockets and burned more ted
fire and-.madq ipore^mo^e ^ipd cljeerpd
some more. '
Spores of flag-bedecked automobiles
.swung.into Jine behind the nominee's
car for the , parade through . the city
,to .Tomlinson hall. Remind the cars
cSme ' thousands of forelMieo-flng
twareffiei^ Republican .feaders who
staged the big demonstraUon said that
the line extended for ■ more. than .two
miles. Long after the nominee had
started to speak the marchers were
still weaving their way .through the
streets. . •
” l Mr Hughes’s voice was almost gone
when he reached the city. ■ He had
been husbanding it all day. delivering
mqager little address to the crowds
which turned out to see h*m at sta
tions along the way from South Bend.
His throat Was not. helped by ,the
speech- at Gary, Ind., in the .open air
With.a- raw wind from Lake Michi
gan. He was hoarse Saturday, but
the hoarseness, his doctor said, was
a poor indication of the strain to
•which his vocal cords had. been sub
lected There was a possibility', the
physician said; that they-might cease
suddenly at any time to do.J heir work
without a period of rest.
'The red fire, the cheers of the
crowds, the marching thousands, how
ever." acted as a tonic. Mr Hughes
was smiling from the time he left the
I train. He sp'eHt most of the time
during the parade standing up in his-'
'car waving his .hat ip acknowledg
ment.
When introducing Mr. . Hughes.-
Cttattea W<- Fairbanks, the. chairinah
•of the meeting, said of him: —
■ “We' recognize in him. a man who
is" "in sympathy -with our highest
('deals—the advocate of every good
iiauset the sincere and helpful friend
'of the- great body of wage-earners in
Ameftea. He stands for policies
which mean better wages for more
people, ’and for more of the .time, than
'do the policies of the democratic
party. , , .
'‘Able, straightforward, unafraid m
every responsibility; able as governor
of the great Empire state: the enemy
' of graft and grafters everywhere—l
present to vou a man who is a pro
found student-of the problems of our
government, who wIH act in every
exigency when he has mastered the
truth." •» - , - •
It was 8.40 o’clock, more than an
hour after be arrived, before Mr
Hughes addressed the crowd. The
big audience had waited patiently
from' " o’clock. Many had stood the
entire time. Thousands were turned
aw. unable to get into the hall.
“This great demonstration , seems, to
me.” Mr Hughes said, ‘.a sincere, cor
dial and enthusiastic manifestation of
■an Intense desire for the success, of
the republican ticket in November.
I consider It a happy augury of suc
cess In state and nation.”
The din of blaring bands, horns,
cowbells and the shouts of the march
ers outside drifted into a hall, a dis
cordant medley. Now and then the
roar of exploding rockets blotted out
the nominee’s voice. The noise from
the street was so' great it hampered
taeriousty the candidate’s speaking.
Mr Hughes again reviewed ropubt
heart' 'legislation of the • past. .a«s«iled
the administration for what he termed
broken 'pledges and - extravagant
claims,;and outlined cepuWcan polu;ipy
®f the caanpalgn. He..dwelt, at length,
upon, the doctrine of the protective
• tariff. -, -H' —; - ju.. „
I 1 “The only thing.” he >said v "thfit.
t stands more-than anything cis* ns a
I menace to ths prosperity ci thie^oun,,
(tryAs a continwunce.of n dMaq-teattc.
,I administration In Bower.” u
Il Mr Hughes read the following ex-
qerpt, froqi. resident TjVjlSop’s jpeecp
of, acceptance,: p-
“ ‘We-have prqfcssed to jieUeve that
every peoqk. has the right to order its
own- Institutions an it will and we
must live up to. that profession in our
actions ,in absolute, -good faith.'
“J. deeply deplore.” Mr Hughes add
ed, '“that that nrihclple, St/eloquently
stated dWrsd IrripOrtant ‘in* bur rela
tions -With Other "nations Ip this
hemisphere, was net ‘regarded.in qur
dealings with Mexico."
“How about 1907?” asked a man In
the balcony when Mr Hugues assailed
the democratic party for the business
depression of 1913.
“How about 1907?” tie nominee
quickly repeated, pointing his finger
at the questioner. "We had a mone
tary condition In 1907-which the. re
publican part,y the- very next year
rectified by 4he Aldrich-Vreeland bill,
whieh saved, this -country from panic
in 1913." The crowd y^lkd.
Jlr Hughes' read again what ha said
tvas a st'a’tcp'ient 'that TS'esldent Wil
,son , "before , April,”. 1914.” antficrizeil
.John Lind.tp rpake "jo a minister from
an important, power.” saying that
“Huerta must get out, iy domestic
means if possible, bj’ pfher means If
necessary.”
“That was unjustifiable.” Mr
Hughes said. 'That meant ’interven
tion.” ■■ ■ ...
HUGHES TAKES SUNDAY’REST
Spends Day In Fairbanks’ Home at
' Ifidianapolis
Charles E. Hughes at. Indianapolis
Sunday followed his usual procedure
of resting on Sunday, He spent the
day at tihe home of Charles W. Fair
banks, "his running-mate, slept Sun
day night in his private car in the
railroad yards.
' "’With Mi's Hughes 'and Mr Fair
banks the nominfee went to church
Sunday morning and Took a motor
ride in the afternoon. ..There was also
an informal reception late . Sunday
at the Fairbanks home, -w-here Mr
Hughes met many of Mr Fairbanks’s
neighbors. - -
8-HOUR DAY ARBITRABLE
Republican Candidate, Asserts
That There Is No Analogy Wjth
Court Action on Net? Laws
. Charles E, Hughes, addressing- an
audience iu Memorial hall at,-Davpon,
0.., Monday replied ,to statements in
President Wilson’s speech of Saturday,
4n connection with the,, passage of tpe
AdaHisen law. Nr- Hughes character
ized: as- '.‘most .regrettable’.’ .the xefyr
ertefes made by President Wilson to
the 80-ccnt gas’tn New York as arr in-
Btasice’ where the coilrts had refused
so declare h rate -fixing law Constitu
tional in advance of determining- how
it would operate. “ -•--
"It has been sought to dPa wan anal
ogy,” Mr Hughes said, "between such
a case and legislation in advance of
I inquiry. The courts have nothing to
db With the question ,of the Wisdom Of
1 policy of legislation. Questions of Con
stitutionality come before the courts:
after the Legislature has acted,' pre
sumably with knowledge of the'facts
and upon careful inquiry.”
President Wilson’d declaration that
‘lib cbnsldered the eliiit'-'hbUr' day: as
■a principl'e that Was’ riot 'arbitrable,
•was cbmmented on as •' follows
.‘,Tt is said that the principle - was
. not 4 arbitrable. It Is a Very ex
tfafirdinary statement:'- for tB ‘years
'Ago, 1 Yefieve'. Jh tht- passage erf 'the
'■abt"’to pt-onWtfe 'bbwSliittonh- add
ATffifmtidri With--respect to- disputes
between ' interstate commerce em
' plos’bs "and Cafrietd; there was: pro
vision' mfede r tor arbitration - with
respect to hours of- labm-j conditions of
employment, as well as-wages/ And.'
ip a bill which. I- believe, was-‘Signed
:auffng this' adm*nfstration,- tn July. ।
WS; the same provision,“ln, T be-1
lieve: substantially the safne language ;
was re-enacted in the law providing .
for ’arbitration with respect to wages,
conditions- of employment" and hours
of labor. ..r -• ■
"Of course, the question whether in
a particular case that conditiori ex
.ists which should provide for a cer
tain number of hours of labor is a
question requiring the most earnest
consideration. But no one; in this -con
troversy to which I am -now- referring,
had attj’ Idea of dStaffliSMh^’Sn eight
hour Voik-'day. The principle of the
eight-hour work day is not in ahy way
iuvolycd.
"I protest against any* endeavor to
'ccaifude the thought of 'America-yby
talking about an eight-houb work day
when nothing ,f the sb'ft' has beed en
acted. nothing' of the Sort’ ha'S been
proposed, and the only thing that'tfaS'
proposed or enacted was'rr'chtfnge ln
the schedule of wages.- If thflpe is l
anything more remarkable or regret^
table than the effort to have Jt ap
pear that an eight-hour work day' is
involved, it is an attempt to 'draw an
analogy between the Case of legisla
tioin of that description and the ac
tion of bdr courts in dealing wlth rrtte'
cases.” ■ ■ “ ' ’
“it has been stated, for example,
that whbn a rate Is’fixed‘by law-, as'
.a' railrbad rate, ir asi telephone rate,
and it:is httaeked as uncbnstltutionar
because confiscatory, that the; supreme
court of the United States has stated
that it woulcfnot declare the measure
unconstitutional until the effect of
the' operation of’ the rate had been
disclosed. It has been sought to draw
an analogy between such a case and
legislation in advance ,pf .inquiry. 1
"Questions of constitutionality come
befdre the courts after the Legislature’
has acted, presumably with knowledge ;
of the facts and upon careful inquiry i
The question that comes before tWi
court is whether after a- Legislator" I
has presumably dime its, full duty ini
examining the faets. dealing with, the I
faots according to its judgment, the
act of the Legislature should .be de
clared void because it exceeded legis
lative power. , The question before the
court Is whetlieif it should be de
clared.null because it was against the
constitution of the state or an act of
Congress or against the constitution
of the United States.
"When anyone conies into court
charging that a rate' act is contrary, to
the constitution of the state or of the
United Statte-S, what does the court
say to him?, it .says:’ ‘Before we will
peilorm' this extraordinary function
of declaring a legislative act void and
of no effect." because .unconstitutional,
we insist thbt yoiL 'the plalntiffs fn
thU case, shall prove yoiir case beybnd
liny peradventure of doubt.’
“What has that to do. that sound
"rule of judicial action. With the ques
tion whether the Legislature Shall
make toe acts without any inquiry at
all? That proposition only, needs, to
be stated to receive its proper con
demnation. An Illustration was put
forward of the 80-cent gas rate In
New York.' It wits suggested that the
supreme, .court . the. IJnlted State?
‘wnerf'the SOrcerit gas rate ’tome’be
fore 'itoSd/tipittet, ^ouid hot' interfere
until the ra?B nHd'beeti tested; Is that
a precedent for ItglsTativa atWon-'wito-
Mut iiMfutey? • ■
.“Whx< l,WLy° u nfel .for,a commit
tee of .the New, Yorjc Lp^lsigtoto which
inves.tl|;at«L^ tor weeks W
Wrote .ap eXh»U^ix<i report on the cost
Thihk of’that being cited as a prece
dent.
"When we have legislation attacked
in the courts, we have no principle of
judicial action. When we have .propo-
SlUon< submitted, to the LeßisliatUr*.
we have a principle of legislative ac
tion. Let no one confuse the American
mind as to the principle of legislative
action. It has been the same since
t-eiislatu!ro« ?flrit .began so sit, Tn
deed, if it is abandoned you might as
well wind up your republic and ap
point a dictator.”'
Mr Hughes assailed the administra
tion for "broken pledges and extrava
gant claims,” especially with reference
to having aided business. He repeat
ed that instead of clarifying the anti
trust law by definition, the adminfb
tion had added “vague phrases,”
making the law more uncertain.
“I have long .stood, for proper defi
niteness In legislation," Mr Hughes
said. “I think it is an ideal'that we
should endeavor to obtain. There has
been too much —and there has been a
great deal of it—in this administration
of compromise phrases 1n the statutes
apparently intended to mean one thing
to, ope get of men to get thfelr votes,
and another thing td another set of
men to allay their fears.”
WEEKS ASSAILS WILSON
Senator Charges President With
Being a Virtual Dictator
An attack on 'President Wilson ‘aS
"a" dictator,” who is in effect more
powerful under present conditions
than any other ‘ rilieP in the world?'
was made by United States Senator
Weeks of Massachusetts at the annual
dinner of the Middlesex, club in Bos
ton Monday night. Senatoi- Weeks
charg’ed President Wilson with "abam
ddning his- party principles without
consultation.” ,-"He had nardly be
come president,’’, said the senator, “be
fore he Substantially gave up all com
httinicatibii with Uis pdrty leaders, and
even his political family, the cabinet;
Withdrew :hlmsfjf from public yiew.
and during the past two years has
. praclipally dictated' wha.t Congress
.should .ap'd shpuld- not, .do.
Hi» epurse has' been in effect a de
struction of representative goyern 1 -
ment.”,, , . . , „
Referring to the recent railroad
labor crisife, Senator Weifeksi said that
thfe only" result of the Adamson elght
'hbur, bill was “an'increase of -sohte
$59,000,000 In-' the cost of operation
ofralfrtsids by basing pay on a.
'schedule ‘bf 10 hours pay for eight
.hours vVork.' -Replying to a state
ment made by President Wilson in
his speech accepting the democratic
uptnina^ioh tt)at he understood there
hail ’been a conference of republican
senators which decided' that the
Adajhdon, bill should not be opposed
Sbpatori We^ks sditf: "Where he ob
tained this Iritbim.itfon I-de not-know
for ,no. sqch copferehce was held. The
only qqds'tibn wliidh- republican : sen
ators had to deal with tvas that es
attempting.to kill 'the bill by filibuster,
.‘and thereby taking the responsibility
pt a Strike ,qr making an appeal to
reason agaipst the bill and then vot
-1 Ing against it. The latter course was
- followed,” "
; Former Senator Beveridge of In-
I diaria, progressive - party leader, made
' what wks announced as his first ap
pearance" ill behalf of the candidacy
of CharJfes Ei Hughds. He also scored
the Adamson bill, u “Better suffer a
ptrike thary,.see, Jie government ab
dicate," he declared. Mil. Beveridge
I eaid,he ;<aqujd nqt -agree with' those
l-who denwneed Mr Wilson as Knavish
rand :qnpaieiotiq, >^‘Ts fie. Jl'flt merely
Che familiar, pace of a good'man In the
wrong place-r-jqst as an octagbtial
peg. to a square, hold?" /The speaker
,4nqjjirjed. . Continuing, fib s M d t? l9
■fight was against, “the .government.of
terrorism"! which had “usurped the
functions of the representatives of the
people,”. .- ‘t to - . . ■'
’ SCORES WILSON AND HUGHES
A. L. Benson, Socialist Candidate
Says Both Are of Capitalist Class
President Wiisoh and Charles E.
Hughes were characterized as “candi
! dates of the capitalist class” by Allan
;L. Benson, nominee ’of the socialist
: party stir president, at a meetihg held
in Madison Square garden, New York,
Sunday. . .Mr Benson arid his'. Tun
ning mate, G. R. Kirkpatrick, can
didate for vice-president, as well as
other socialist nominees, were ap
plajulgd by a. largp, crowd which gath
ered for-.the formal ratification of the
party's candidates.
• Mr Bdnson attacked both the dem
ocratic ahd republican parties for
.."favorjng militarisnfi” and declaring
that -hpd the socialist party been in
power, during the past four years "it
would have seiged the industries of
this country .and operated . them, for
the benefit of the public.”
"It-would not have permitted this
country,” he. added, "to increase its
wealth by $41,000.0(10.000 unless the
workers iiad their full share in it. It
vmuld not have -permitted $600.000.000
Worth'of food to go out of the coun
ty- and thus make the cost of living
’higher. Nor would it have passed a
drift law.-"
Ms Ben Son asserted that the Hay-
Chamberlain army reorganization bill
was "a draft .law containing a provi
sion through -which the president has
power to draft every able-bodied citi
zen between the ages of 18 and 45
I into the army.”.. He charged that the
f draft section had been "smuggled
■ into” the bill by .a conference commit
tee of Seven senators.
! Mb Kirkpatrick declared that both
iTrasident .Wilsoh and Mr Hughes are
i Willing to co-operate .with the repre
-1 sentatlyes of capital. in "giving shlo
‘ reform, to. the working people pt the
United States." , ■ -.
CHALLENGE BY MARSHALL
Vice-President Asks What Hughes
Would Have Done
Vice-President Th'ofaas R. Marshall
In an address at Richmond. Ind., Fri
day, issued a ' challenge of Charles
E. Hughes, the republican candidate
for president, who spoke there Thurs
day night, to say what he would do
under thb same conditions that con
fronted the democratic administration.
He also asserted .that Mr Hughes’s
election would mean control of the
government by what he 'called “the
stand-patters.” He said:—
“The election of Mr. Hughes will put
the government- under the control of
the 'stand-patters’ foj the rule of sen
iority in the Senate' will confer the
important chairmanships of the Sen
ate, committees upon such men as
.Boles Renrpse of Pennsylvania, Reed
Smooth, of. U,tab, Wat Ten of Wyqmlng
and Lodge of Massachusetts.” The
vice-president denied that labor had
injiired the''country in pressing the
passage of. the eight-,hour bilL
Theodore Roosevelt and William H.
Taft, it was'announced at New York
-Thursday night, have accepted invita
tions to attend,a reception in hphor of
.Ctn Alas E,, Hughes at tfte’, TTrilon
. Lpagub club' there on: October & EUhu
Root, president' of .the Club, 'Will' pre-