The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-08-10

4 rs we pIoullse or our iOrSign
trade could hardly be devised. II
mas well been asked: Does the Goy.
eminent intend to operate at nroet
or at loss? We need the encourage.
ment and protection of Government
for our shipping industry. but IL can
not afford to have the Government
as competitor.
/ Mr.. Hughes referred TO the inter.
national duties OF the United States
and the condition Of labor in this
country before the war, in the fol.
lowing words:
i If at the close of the present war
the nations are ready to undertake
practicable measures in .he common
interest in order to secure interna.
tional justice, we cannot fail to rec.
ognize our international duty. The
peace of the world is our interest as
well as the interest Of others. and
In developing the necessary agencies
]
be glad to have an appropriate share.
/ And our preparedness will have prop.
er relation to this end as well as to
our own immediate security.
When We contemplate industrial
and commercial conditions, we see
that we are living in fools para
disc. The temporary prosperity to
which our opponents point has been
created by the abnormal conditions
/ incident to the war. With the END
of the war there will be new con.
ditions determined by new Europe.
Millions Of men in the trenches will
! then return to work. The energies OF
each of the now belligerent nations,
highly trained, will then be turned to
/ production. These are days of ter.
( rible discipline for the nations at war
but it must not DE forgotten that
each is developing a national solid.
arity, a knowledge OF method, real
ization of capacity, hitherto unap'
preached In each the lessons of co.
operation now being learned will new.
err be forgotten. Friction and waste
have been reduced to minimum;
labor and capital have better under.
standing, business organization is
more highly developed and more in.
hafnrp
| We see in each OF these nations
marvellous national efficiency. Let 1t
rot be supposed that this efficiency
will not count when Europe, once
more at peace, pushes its productive
powers to the utmost limit.
On the other hand, in this country,
with the stoppage of the manufacture
OF munitions, host of men Will be
turned out of employment. We must
meet. the most severe competition IN
, industry. We are undisciplined, de-
tective in organization, loosely knit
industrially unprepared.
Our opponents promised to reduce
the cost of living. This they have
failed to do; but they did reduce the
opportunities Of making living. Let
as not forget the conditions which
existed in this country under the new
tariff prior to the outbreak of the
war. Production had decreased
|i..zi.s. $40, ,apguiching now enter.
prises we're not undertaken; instead
OF expansion there was curtailment,
and our streets were filled with the
unemployed. 1t was estimated that
in the City of New York over 5oo'0oU
were out of work Throughout the
country the jobless demanded relief.
The labor commissioners OF many
States and our municipal administra'
lions devoted themselves to the PROB
lem of unemployment, while the re
sources of our voluntary charithoie
organizations were most severely TAX
ed. What ground is there Tor expect
ing better conditions when the UNI
healthy stimulus of the war has spent
It's force and our industries and work
ing men are exposed to the compeu'
ton of an energized EuropeF
| II is plain that we must have pro
,ectivc upbuilding policies. IT Is iulo
TO look for relief to the DemocFauc
party, which as late as 1872 dec'are'
in it's platform that 1t was iuhua'
mental principle of the Democra'i'
partv that the Federal Government
under the Constitution, had no r'sh'
or power to impose or collect 'ar'"
duties except for the purpose OF rev.
enue," We are told in its present p'"'
form that there have been iho'hen'
tons changes" in the last two years
and hence, repudiating its former Nv
,itude the Democratic party nc" Wv
c,aras for n nonpartisan tarih COM
,,ssiop But have Lhe moueH'ou'