Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Telling Tariff Points [ARTICLE]

Telling Tariff Points

Let these telling pbints on tariff and protection in the speech by Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate for President, delivered In the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed permanently in your mind and memory during the remainder of the campaign: We are desirous of having strong and sure the foundations of our national greatness in. this pursuit of competition among the nations which is sure to follow the cessation of the present struggle.

I propose that the Republican party as the national party, according to the constitution of the United States, within the national sphere, shall proceed wherever it is practicable to build up and foster and encourage American enterprise and open the doors wide for honest American achievement.

Then came the Underwood tariff bill itself. What was the result? Enterprise halted and there was a contraction of trade throughout the land, and America, instead of going ahead, stopped. That is what happened. Three hundred thousand were unemployed in the city of New York. There was not a city in this land where the jobless ru£n anxious and able to work did not walk the street They were fed by our charitable organizations, which were taxed to the utmost limit to provide for those for whom American enterprise could no longer make provision. It was a sad spectacle. Americans have not forgotten it. It is not forgotten here or anywhere. It cannot be forgotten. It is too recent

If you are gping to have the basis for prosperity in this country, if you are going to protect the American wage scale, if you are going to have American enterprise able to meet the competition which will follow the ending of this war, you must have jan honestly devised, wisely framed tariff law to protect American Industry. No; the Democratic party will not be saved by the European war. If you would know what our condition will be when that war ends think of what our condition was before that war began if you think these nations are so impoverished that they cannot again turn to work. Those millions of men now fighting are better able to work than-evet-before-Jm their- lives,— *—*- Their factories are there; their plants are there; they know themselves better than ever before. They are better disciplined, more alert, keener, stronger, better physically, than ever before in the main, and they are ready to turn great national energies into the pursuits of peace to pay their war bills, to produce up to the limit, to send their goods throughout the world.

I propose that we shall study this out, applying a principle that we believein, and secure Intelligently and honestly adequate protection to American industries in every part of this land.