Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1916 — THE MAIN ISSUES SUMMARIZED [ARTICLE]

THE MAIN ISSUES SUMMARIZED

WILSON AND MEXICO. Wilson says Mexico should be left to work out its own destiny. Yet he overthrew the established and recognized government in Mexico, invaded the country twice and by- manipulating che embargo on arms favored first this and then that, bandit chief. RURAL CREDITS. The democrats are appealing to the farmers on account of their new rural credit laws. Experts of all political parties who have studied it condemn it. The law was framed to help the southern plantation owners, not the farmers of the north, east and west. It is so drawn that the wealthy farmer can get plenty of money which he doesn’t need, but the poor one, trying to get a start, is as bad off as ever.

DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. The democrats in 1912 promised economy in government. Their pork barrels have been the biggest on record, providing for improvement of southern streams which a child can jump across, and government buildings in southern towns of 1,500. Hundreds of jobs have been created for “deserving democrats.” The present congress is a three billion dollar congress.

UNDERWOOD PROSPERITY. The democrats claim that the Underwood law is responsible for our present prosperity, confined chiefly to the munitions belt. Yet in 1914 there were thousands bf expty box cars an the side tracks of the country, hundreds of thousands of idle men, bread and soup lines in the big cities, all under the Underwood law. It was only after Europe began to' demand the products of our factories that we were rescued from stagnation and disaster, and at a fearful cost of blood and horror in Europe.

I PREPAREDNESS. 1 The say they are in favor of preparedness, though Wilson says we proud to fight. The principal reason they want preparedness seems to be so they can have excuse, for levying taxes to make up the Underwood deficits. The republicans favor preparedness and they- want it • scientifically and economically done. • This means doing it under a republican business administration and not through the precepts of Wilson psyi chology.

KEEPING US OUT OF WAR.

The democrats say Wilson*kept us out of war. Yet we stormed and captured Vera Cruz, invaded Mexico, engaging in many battles, lost scores of ’ men in a massacre at Carizal, have had one American town invaded and ravaged, and have accomplished nothing except sending thousands of boys to the border to bake in the sand and fight tarantulas. And we have had .a war tax, too, and a war :n Haiti, which country seems to be about Wilson’s size. And if the present- weak and wabbling international policies are continued we will inevitably drift into war, not out of it.

WILSON VS. HUGHES. The republicans are not ashamed to compare presidential candidates. Wilson is an academic theorist, a web spinner and note writer, an egoist who would say with King Louis, T am the state,” reducing congress to an abejet .slave. He has earned for us the derision and contempt of the other nations of the world. Hughes is a lawyer, a jurist, and a statesman. Everybody remembers his fine record as governor of New York. Every holder of a life insurance policy in th 4 United States owes Hughes a vote and a personal debt of gratitude. “By their fruits shall ye know theip.” Think it over.

THE, COST OF LIVING. | Democrats in 1912 promised to reduce the cost of living. They closed , the factories in 1913 and ’914 but didn’t reduce the cost-of living. Are two dollar potatoes, fourteen cent beans, ten dollar flour and forty cent bacon, evidences of reducing the cost of living?

GETTING THE REVENUE. The Underwood tariff law is not even a tariff for revenue. It has failed to produce, and even the income tax could not make up the deficit. The democrats had to levy a war tax in time of peace, making us a nation of stamp lickers. The stamp law was repealed two months after election. If Wilson is re-elected the stamps will come again, together with bond ‘issues.

ADAMSON WAGE LAW. On the basis of the Adamson wage law, which is not an eight hour law in any sense of the term, democrats are claiming that they are the special friends of toiler, and that the campaign is a battle between labor and capital. Yet the Adamson law is clearly unconstitutional, and the date of its operations were postponed until after the election in order to hide this fact. Its provisions, moreover, were withheld from hundreds of thousands of workers in interstate commerce to whom congress might with" equal propriety have given relief. The real feeling of Wilson and the democratic party for the wage workers us shown in Wilson’s strong utterances against labor as a college professor, and in the state of legislation in southern states, where the democratic party has long been in power, and where social justice and labor legislation lag half a century behind the republican states north of the Ohio.