Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-26
YOUNG AMERICA
is APPEALED TO
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once more restored we shall contribute
to it's maintenance by doing our proper
share to secure practicable and ef-
fective international organization in
the interest of peace.
Fourth, Young America wants gov
ernment in the open, by visible Con-
stitudonal instruments, not by unoffi-
cial spokesmen or invisible authority.
He also wants a government not sec
tional, but truly national.
Fifth, Young America wants in
dustrial preparedness"
Mr.. Hughes left New York this
morning on the last trip of his presi-
dental campaign. His program called
for three speeches to-day, at Hartford,
Providence and Boston, where there
will be an evening meeting.
Mr. Hughes will not return to New
York city until November 8. His
itinerary calls for four days in New
York State, exclusive of Sunday, one
day in Ohio and two days in Indiana.
Party of Progress
Mr.. Hughes prefaced his remarks
by saying that he spoke for a re-
united Republican party. He then
encountered the great achievements
of the party since its birth, and sara:
ut has now recovered from the di-
vision of four years ago and is ready
once more to serve. l have always
been a Republican and I have always
been a progressive. We are facing
the future as the party of progress
'"Timidity, weakness and changing
purpose are feeble custodians either
of a nations honor or of a nation S
peace. Yet we have seen the lives of
American men. women and children
ruthlessly destroyed on the high seas,
our citizens killed and their properties
destroyed in Mexico, our commerce
seriously interrupted, while Ameri-
can government has seemed to mean
naught but impotence and unavail-
ing words.
What can Young America think
of this course? Can one doubt that
it's continuance spells disaster and de-
struction of our peace and security
If we do not protect our trade it will
be constantly menaced and shackled.
If the lives of our citizens are not
safeguarded there will be continued
invitation to slaughter by those whose
contempt we have evoked.
War Threat Prepostcrous
"It is said that the alternative of
the administrations policy means war.
What a preposterous assertion! There
is no promise of peace in decadence.
We are a peaceful pevr~e, devoted to
the Ideals OF peace. We wish only to
maintain American rights. The coun-
try, I believe, is not willing to sur
render them"
In citing his second reason Mr..
Hughes assailed the administration
for lack of preparedness, referred to
manifest defects" in the Army Re-
organization bill, declared that the
Navy Department had incapable
leadership" and touched on a recon-
mendation by Secretary Garrison in
June, 1914. that the regular army
be filled to it's full strength" a
recommendation. Mr.. Hughes said.
that had been ignored.
Watchword, Efficiency
AS to the industrial preparedness
which young America wants in the
future, Mr.. Hughes said:
1T is idle to talk of improvement in
living conditions unless we have ex-
panding opportunities for profitable
activity in industry and trade. We
are at present in an unhealthy con-
dition. We have an abnormal pros
perity stimulated by the European
war"