Arizona republican., 1916-10-14
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 JOPLIN, Mo, Oct 13.-Charles F. hughes today took his campaign to Missouri. the fourth of the states that skirt the so-caIled solid south" to be visited on his present trip. Save for one stop, at Springfield. Mo. the entire day was spent travelling. The nominee reached Joplin tonight and addressed an audience in a big tent, making his chief theme the protective tariff
 MT. Hughes told the crowd that the present prosperity of the country was built on sand, that the intoxicated fancy may indulge happy dreams but the sober thought of the country is directed to the day when this stimu- lant-the European War-wil be no longer available
 He referred to those who are seek ing to make political capital out of our present war prosperity" DOT trayed in detail. conditions as he viewed them in the United States when the war shall end, and assailed the democratic tariff policy as a policy which means idle plants and impoverished workmen.''
 At Springfield and again here to- night MT. Hughes assailed the ad- ministration for the enaction of the Adamson law. What are real laws ," he asked. Real laws are passed aft CT injury with some understanding of the justice of the case. with some idea of what is involved and ought to be done. Shall laws be passed under duress. l am opposed in the interest of labor to government by holdup and 1 am for government by reason and fairness.
 No thoughtful American can view our present economic condition with out serious apprehension. We are | under the unhealthy stimulus of the l European war. Hopes are raised which cannot be fulfilled. Our pres ent prosperity is built on sand. Our trade is not determined by conditions of normal competition, but of an abnormal European want.
 Munitions of war are but a frac- tion of those suddenly expanded eX- lports. Everything we produce, food stuffs, metals manufactured articles of every sort. Europe put forth her hand to fill the void created by her extremity The resulting employment 1 of labor on an unprecedented scale and increased purchasing power stim- ulate trade throughout the country 1 The intoxicated fancy may indulge in | happy dreams but the sober thought ' ! when this stimulant will be no longer available.
 ] You cannot have our exports sud denly jump hundreds per cent in some cases, thousands per cent, and i ignore either the cause or the effect of it's removal.
 What will be our condition when i the war is over?" In the first place 1 a large amount of labor employed at high wages will lose that employ ment. The demand which it is now | supplying will cease. The mere stop 1 page of the manufacture of munitions l will mean in itself a serious change l in the opportunities of labor. When the millions of men in the trenches 1 return to production, our exports oT manifold products will fall off tre- menduously, even as they have risen 1 tremendously.
 Think of the percentage of Ameri- can labor now profitably employed in making EurOpe's necessities creat- l ed by the war. What will occur when these necessities no longer eN- ist? The labor now devoted to that abnormal demand must compete with the labor satisfying the normal op- portunities of American trade. The change will be reflected in diminished Dul BCNNA-
 T do not desire to exaggerate There is enough to give us serious thought without eXaggeration. Amer ica with Europe at peace will not i have the opportunity with Europe al
 war. And the difference will be most | keenly felt.
 "Ws shall not simply lose oppor- tunities for labor. We shall have the active competition resulting from the resumption of foreign produc- tion. That production will be more
 skinful; more intelligent; better or | ganized in every one of the foreign nations now at war than it ever has been before. Nations will not only seek to protect. so far as possible their economic independence, balt they Will seek our markets. It IS fatuous to suppose that the wastes of the wal
 will incapacitate them for efficient production.
 Despite the losses of war, I be- lieve that each of the belligerent
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