Evening star., 1916-08-20
URGES SQUARE DEAL
ASBUS|NESS RULE
Mr.. Hughes Says Wrong Can
Be Righted Without Destroy
ing the Good.
BELIEVES IN FOSTERING
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE

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of Speeches as Wind-Up Of San ,
Francisco Program.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.-
Charles E. Hughes today told audiences
here and in Oakland that the govern
ment of the United States could not
properly be conducted by mixing poll
| tics with business. with preparedness
with the maintenance of international
honor or with other administrative
functions of government.
When you start out to be military
be military and not political, Mr.
Hughes told an audience in Oakland.
II do not believe we can run this gov
ernment by mixing business and poll
of business men here, short time be-
fore the Oakland meeting. At Oakland
Mr.. Hughes repeated his declaration
that he favored fostering honorable
American achievements in business and
adjusting difficulties by finding the
facts and acting upon them.
You can break down your prosper
ity by prostituting yourself in the face
Of an unjust popular demand. Mr.
Hughes said 'I shall never do that
And the unjust popular demand is only
unjust because the facts are not under
stood. The only thing 1 am afraid of In
this country is the dark. When we get
things out into the light of day and see
the actual facts we generally find out
where the truth and justice lie.
Some people live in dreamland," Mr..
Hughes continued, in speaking of the
need for military and commercial pre-
paredness. They do not understand
the actual world we live in."
Discusses "Federal Commissions"
The nominee spoke of federal COM
missions to Investigate various situa-
tions.
I'VE have developed commissions of
investigation" he said. What do they
amount to unless we have expert COM
missioners? Commissions are nothing
except as they are dominated by good
sense, inspired by loyalty and patriot
ism and controlled by the facts and
the justice of the case before them.
Il believe we can put down what is
wrong without destroying what is good.
In wedding out gardens we do not
want to pull up the useful plants. We
do not desire in correcting abuses to
destroy the opportunities of success.
We are competent, If we go about it
In the right way, to destroy abuses, to
secure open and fair dealing, and at
the same time make possible honest
enterprise.
- We cannot 70 forward unless we
more than ever understand that ma :
tfonal powers are to be exercised and
that national prosperity can be gained
only by the potency Of our national or
ganiZation."
Mr.. Hughes declared himself opposed
to invisible government
Il want" he said. visible govern
ment. competent administration, not
only by those elected by the people, but
by appointees OF elected officials who
represent the competence, the intel1i.
gence and the talent of the nation. We
are entitled to that"
Speaks to Business Men.
In his address to business men of San
Francisco at the Commercial Club Mr..
Hughes spoke, in part. as follows:
we come to constructive period, a
difficult period, a period in which
America must look forward with
greater confidence in the soundness of
our life than she has hitherto had We
have had an abundant surgery No.
body can live by surgery alone, how
ever necessary it may be-
We have got to have hygienic treat
ment. The system of the patient must
be built up by abundant exercise. by
lresh air and abundant nutrition l am
glad to think that we are ready for
that forward movement, and now I
think we can be sure that we can con-
troll monopolistic parties. and that we
can prevent unjust discrimination. We
can secure square deal. and yet we
can foster enterprise, build UP and not
destroy. encourage and not fetter, and
make the honorable man of business
feel that he has free avenue TO an
honest success.
III We cannot so judge the United
States. then our future is a troublous
one. and we will fail as great nations
OF the past have failed. We are but
young people. We are only an ex-
pertinent. Nations several times our
age have prospered. and left but scant
memorials. We have. as l say. very
quires constant study and attention on
the part Of those who know. The man
who knows is the man l want to talk
to about every department of life.
Il do not believe II is necessary to
prostitute national business in order to
have the confidence of the electorate;
think that is great mistake. What
we need In this country, as / have said.
Would Protect American Enterprise.
This Is a non-partisan gathering; l
do not want to abuse it by talking in a
partisan way but / should be unjust to
myself If 1 did rot say that as prin-
ciple-as a p: nciple which. of course.
must be carefully and prodently applied
we must have the idea OF protecting
American enterprise against the competi-
ton of other natior-S acting upon and
under their production on different basis
in respect to wages and standards of liv-
ing from what we have. we must not be
id Of nerfect cooperation.
"Eyerywhere along the line from this
time on we have got to consider, not
what each one can do in a haphazard
way. but what is the best way to do
things. in order to achieve things in
the future. For example, the practice
is only comparatively recent of keeping
properIy the items of cost so that you
can get from the manufacturer a real
cost sheet. How many realize now
what can be done and where improve
ments can be made?
II have talked with many along that
line, and ! believe. without doing you
gentlemen any injustice. that there is
a great deal that we have yet to learn
| in this country in order that we NAV
| hold our own with the better organized
nations abroad.
1--WE have a world yet to do in this
country. We are loose. We are dis
1ointed and we are unorsanized l want
to see fair cooperation on a proper
basis with such supervision as NAV be
| that we can go forward and advance
our foreign trade throughout the
world.
Advocates Business Methods.
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