French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-07-13
NOT PRIMED BY REASON.

Judge Charles F. Hughes Republic
can nominee for PRESIDENT, in a tcle-
gram of what the New York World
Haptiy terms "the rump Progressive
Committee" said among other things:
"No intelligent man is deceived by the
temporary prosperity due to abnormal
conditions"
In making this remark Judge
Hughes tries to make political capital
against the Democratic party with q
statement which he is not able to
prove, his remark of the ipse dixit
kind which demagogues make in their
efforts to give evidence upon the un-
known. Indeed with the present cir
cumstances before us, why is there not
more reason to say that the present
prosperity is but a promise of the
prosperity which is to come, that
America, prosperous despite the war.
is now having the foundation for a
prosperity greater than can be imagin
ed.
AS the World correctly says, and
shows: IF the prosperity of the Unit
ed States is temporary it is the biggest
thing of the kind that the world mas
ever SEEN" Would Judge Hughes have
Us believe that with the Republican
party in power this temporary pros
! perity" would be greater? If he dared
so to declare it could well be pointed
out that but for the financial legisla-
ton which the Democracy has enacted
that with the beginning of the war in
Europe this country would have beer
thrown into a panic, for the unjust and
ineQuitable banking laws provided by
the Republican party made it so that a
panic would have been the natural
thing to expect.
But it did not materialize because
the Democracy had closed the door
upon the methods by which a little
group Of ~fnanciers could tie up the
country. Because Of this legislation
American finance, industry and trade
have been liberated from the thral-
dom Of monopoly and privilege OF
course sensible men recognize that in
part the prosperity OF the present has
come because Of the war, but as the
World shows, and as statistics prove
lin a much larger way they are of do
nestle growth" for the statistics show
that our interstate commerce exceeds
by many times our foreign commerce.
Judge Hughes would have the people
believe that the Republican high tariff
lcould juggle prosperity upon this coun-
try. We agree that it could come to
the few for that has been proven, but
not to the masses, for in the past years
it has been seen that they have been
ground down under the heel of mOnop-
olistic taxation imposed to give more
] privileges to special privilege. But
Judge Hughes is relying upon the old
stand pat worship of a Payne-Aldrich
tariff to get anywhere with his state
ment, there being an eutire absence Of
proof to sustain his position.
The American people are not going
to swallow such statements Of the
Hughes kind, for they are not primed
by reason. They have learned that
they are simply given out for campaign
| purposes, that behind them is the wink
to the special interests that all will be
right for them If the Republicans are
returned to power. They are declara-
tons which may we'll put the people
on their guard, for Republican success
would mean that the rule of the people
would become the rule of the few for
the benefit of the few.-News and OBJ
server.