The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-17
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SAY / WANT WAR;"
SAYS MIR. HUGHES


ton in connection with foreign affairs,
Mr. Hughes said, I'VE are told that We
must desire war A more bankrupt JUS
LITIGATION cannot imagine. A more pre-
posterous suggestion I cannot conceived
1t is said and proclaimed as though the
American electorate could be deceived
by such words that vote for me means
a vote for war. Why, I am devoted and
my whole life has been devoted to the
institutions of peace.
ut is perfectly idle to suppose that we
have known rights under international
law to advance them in a firm and con-
vincing way means war. 1t means self
respect, it means the esteem of foreign
nations, it means prestige and interna-
tional influence. We cannot serve hui
mainly if we sacrifice our own dignity,
if we degrade our own citizenship, if we
forfeit our own rights. I say. stand for
American rights; stand for peace; stand
for security, erect before the world; and
then you serve humanity
"MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCES"
Mr. Hughes at the auditorium tonight,
said:
1.-THE present administration has been
in large measure an administration of I'M
official spokesman, of mysterious influ-
ences.
'And 1 can say in entire good humor
that I desire government through two
houses and not three"
Mr. Hughes assailed the administration
more vigorously than he has done be-
fore for the enactment of the Adamson
law.
President Wilson's reference to "un-
shackled business made in the same
hall on the Presidents recent visit here.
was answered with the declaration that
there had been no Qualification of the
antitrust act and by the nominees as
sertion that he was amazed a, any such
claim as there had been put forward"
Someone told me today Mr.. Hughes
said land it seems at times to be the
case, that the motto of the present adj
ministration is A problem avoided is a
problem solved"
The nominee faced house that gave
him a three-minute cheer of welcome.
Every seat was taken and all the stand
ing room in the rear of the hall was
crowded many deep, In the galleries at
the far end Of the hall there were at
times confusion and interruptions. which
the nominee took, in one instance, to
mean an attempt to heckle him on the
Adamson law.
There has been a whisper back there
in the gallery" Mr.. Hughes said OF some
one, think, who wants to know my
views on the Adamson law. I don't pro.
pose to leave here until ! tell him.
ADDED OBSCURE PHRASE
Mr.. Hughes said what was done by the
administration ITO unshackle business
was the addition of phrase to the law
the content of which no lawyer knows.
81 refer to the phrase, Unfair COMPETE
ton, which has been introduced into the
law through the federal trade commission
bill.
THE federal trade commission cannot
define its own powers or the legal mean
ing of the terms which confer those pow
ers. What has been accomplished by
the introduction of this fake phrase is
the invitation to years of litigation in
order that in some way we may find out
what it means.
The real attitude of the administration
toward business. Mr.. Hughes said, was
disclosed by its attitude discouraging the
Chimes loan, "a legitimate basis for the
extension of American enterprise
Mr.. Hughes left here late tonight for
pOintS in South Dakota,