Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-02-16
tBy Associated Press.)

10y Assocatcu iressD
ALBANY. n. y, Feb. l6-The policies of
President Wilson and the democratic ad-
minIstration toward the international
situations arising out of the European war
and the Mexican disturbances, and, as re-
lating Ia domestic conditions, toward the
tariff. were attacked by former United
States Senator Ehhu Root today in his ad
dress n temporary chairman Of the New
York State Republican Convention, in as
se1nbly here.
No other presidential election since 1864
has been so fraught with consequences so
vital to national life as the one now APP
preaching, Mr.. Root said and all ordinary
considerations which play so great a part
in presidential campaigns care and ought
to be dwarfcd into insigniicancc." He
promised that If the republican party II re-
turned 10 power the people may expect n
foreign policy which will leave "no doubt
anywhere in the world Of Americas pur-
pose and courage 10 protect and defend
her independence, her territory and the
lives and just rights of her citizens under
the laws of nations;" and that the people
may ipect. also, that "the government will
stand for full and adequate preparation
by the American people for their own de-
Tense"
Mr.. Root charged the present admins
tration with ''thc lack Of foresight to make
timely provision for hacking up Of Amcri-
can diplomacy by actual or assured mill
tary force" with 'the forfeiture Of the
g
by pursuing the policy of making threats
and of failing to make them good" and
with "a loss of the moral forces Of the
civilized world through failure to truly in
terprct to the world the spirit Of the Amer
lean democracy in it, attitude towards the
terrible events which accompanied the
early stages of the war" These. said Mr..
Root, were the administrations thrcc fun
damental errors The temporary chair
man said in part:
"For the first time in twenty years we
enter the field as the party of opposition.
and indeed IL is n much longer time, for in
1890, in all respects save the tariff, the
real opposition 10 the sturdy and patriotic
course Of President Cleveland was 10 bc
Bryan. II J. our duty a. the opposition ID
bring the democratic party ID the bar of
public judgment. 10 put II upon it, defense
20 far ~ We see just and substantial
grounds to criticise it, conduct. and to AK
the voters Of the country to decide whether
that party, organized ~ il is, represented
as II has been since IL came into power. has
shown itself competent TO govern the coun-
try, as IL should be governed, and whether
it, spirit, it, policies, and its performance
are the best that the American people can
do in the way of popular government
| Discussing the domestic situation before
the European war began, Mr.. Root de-
cIarcd that during the eighteen months ~
democratic control there had been 20
steady decrease in American production, m
exports and in revenues, and steady IN
crease in imports and expenditures" En-
terprise had halted, he asserted, and new
undertakings no longer made their appear
ancc, and the country's productive indus
tries "were laboring under misfit tariff
devised BY the democratic party in d spirit
of suspicion. distrust and hostility towards
American business enterprise and trans
portation and commerce had become "irl
and respondent" The tariff commission
created under republican legislation % as
certain tire facts upon which tariff laws
should be based, Mr.. Root said, had been
driven ont of business and no substitute
provided. AT Washington, he declsr d.
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