Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-06

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~. than a ''boom"-a platform for his
~ IN this city in the campaign for
Mayor
a sfter Representative j. Hampton
,.ss.,s w speech before the Kensington
poard Of Trade.
Not in long time had the ''human
.-..r,ot of Congress unbosomed himself
!, the tenets of his political faith SO
..sastiv and exhaustively in speech
y M city as he did last night at the
e,sanbouse Hotel, where he was the
n,ss, ~ the business men of the North
east.
.an he said. And there was indeed great
slgnlacance, many remarked, in the in
-sslon Of a. forum of political happenings
4 central Philadelphia by the leading
nan NJ a section that has in the past kept
a. ,he most part to it's own wards its
.otlvItles in determining the course of
civic events.
M Moore took broad enough national
,roi,nd TO put Senator Penrose, who sat
sn the other side of the chairman. in di-
,sct accord with everything he said. But
N
Endorsement of the Congressman's may
oralty boom, and his face was a study
n TACT and restraint when the guest of
honor took the bull by the horns and
heartily demonstrated that he was very
dshnitely in the forefront of the active
factors in the Republican campaign for
the executive office.
II the manufacturing interests of Ken
,nrton and the rest of the country have
nj been utterly crushed by the Under
wood tariff by this time, 1t is only be-
eause of the artificial barrier against
foreign importations which the great war
has raised--an unforeseen catastrophe
which had been the salvation of Presi-
, dent wilson's and the Democratic ma
jority's prestige-Mr. Moore and Mr. PEN
rose devoutly agreed.
But II Europe's cheap goods are cut
off, said the Congressman, Japan's are
not. for the Pacific is far from the war
zone Waving on high crisp trade
pamphlet from Kobe, Japan, Mr.. Moore
made his point in clarion tones that rang
through the banquet room as If in the
marble halls of Congress.
Forty shipyards," he cried, Sin the
prefecture In which Kobe lies A district
cnly two or three times this city's pop
ulaton And here on the Clyde of
America we have three shipyards and
are indeed a great shipbuilding centre.
But 10 shipyards, as this book shows,
In one Japanese centre! Does that not
prove the seriousness of the situation
that we are confronting? Can we rest
on our laurels with this tremendous
eonpetition preparing to launch itself
at the throat OF our trade, out there In
Tapan7
THE COTTON SITUATION.
Down South there is that cotton.
They cannot see why we should want a
protective tariff up here in the North.
NO, because we cannot impose a tax on
exports, and the cotton of the South can
% poured into Japan, to come back in
iinished goods at San Francisco. low
priced goods made by low-priced labor, to
arIYe our American workmen on to the
streets and close our mills, because the
AliH II you please, was reduced.
And then. on top of that. this South,
With its Democratic President and ma
lority In Congress. wants to go a step
iaftner and put It's hand into our pockets
and make us buy ships for them to send
ihelr cotton out of the country to Japan,
or anywhere else where things are made
below an American living wage. and
aAks US to finish the process of cutting
our own throats.
WHEN WAR is OVER.
When those millions on the battlefelds
o. Europe return to the mills, at smaller
wages taan ever because they will have
% Keep from starving; when the mastery
u lne seas by any Power is over and the
seas are free for trade. then prepare
yourselves for the rush of imports under
shls Underwood tariff that will be catas-
uephe for this country. Preparedness
asainst foreign foe? Yes, we must have
mat but be YOU also prepared. business
Henl for this other invasion of our shores
siat VIII come the moment peace is de-
siAfed. nay, that will begin even when
psaee Is first talked of. and return Re-
ta9nean President and a Republican ma
lorlty to Washington.
ne faetional fight In the MayoraIty
of 1911 here was felt all over the
soahtry The party was split and as a
szsan the party In the State was split,
4n1 THIS was a leading factor in the
sHnstlng OF the Republican party through
w me Union There Is a group of men
y power IN this city now that think city
ssaaes ssllsl can be divorced from national
But it can't.
mere. IN city as big as 80 States, we
- Strike the first blow for the re-
-. - 7. and personal local interests to as
7sfE themselves.
i aid not have my speech prepared by
.als Fenrosa or by Mr.. McNiehol or by
as wares No. I come to speak for a
ss4ssr issue. for the nationalizing Of
,a.l.laaeiphia, I. for the salvation OF this
ION Industry nom the threatened dis
sF that Is awaiting US the moment
as var stops.
cont care to make any announce
~ myself IN regard to the Mayoralty.
siah come here with a swelled head |
~ m not going away with one. l |
- prefer 70 see some one else come |
.s4fa ana say. Here. or here. Is the /
sA % nationalist Philadelphia.
sAlqas the 800 guests were men who /
s1 national flavor 10 the spirit Of the /
s9i- Leaders IN two other States 1
s Democrat. Mayor Donnelly. Of Tren- /
- ana Governor Miller. of Delaware, i
s1 70 the CenEfessmanss value 10 /
+. 9antfy ana his requirements for any /
= = q me people to whien he might as
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