Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-11-03

and has made the only concrete. tam
gible, visible effort at the re-csta5-
lishment of an American merchant
marine. Would Mr.. Hughes, in Il c
interest of the foreign shippers and
owners of vessels, have yielded to
the monopolists and thus have re
fused to enact legislation in the III
terest of an American merchant ma
rine? And would he have yelled to
the monopolists and lobbyists assem-
bled in Washington to do all in
their power to prevent merchant ma
rine legislation from being passed by
congress? Is he in sympathy with
the foreign ship owners, who are try
ing to prevent this government from
entering into the shipping business?
Would Mr.. Hughes have prevented
legislation looking 20 the cstabI- h
ment of a tariff board: The tariff
! ought to be taken out of politics.
No partisan politician can cast 2 sin.
/ cere vote on the subject so long as
the tariff is in politics. The tariff
/ is a business question involving loca.
! interests, and must be viewed from
commercial, sane and philosophical
viewpoint, and, therefore, ought to
/ be in the hands of a disinteres ed,
! nonpartisan tariff board. | belieJa
such a board ought tc have rate
making power This administration
says the tariff ought to be taken out
OF politics Has Mr.. Hughes any bet
ter plan than a scientific, non-palti-
san tariff board9 Why multiply ar
guments? You CAM give a sane,
| logical answer or reason why you
would elect Mr.. Hughes instead of
Mr.. Wilson. Mr. Hughes doesn't
promise to do any better; he only
hopes to do as well. He vouldn
dare say he would prevent legislation
looking to the tetterment of the peo-
pie. Would Mr.. Hughes have taken
any different attitude, or would he
have done any better in his foreign
relationships and negotiations The
partisan politician says the fo,cign
policy of this administ' alton i 5 weak.
In what is it weak? Wherein ia it
weak?
1t is certainly the universal opin-
ion of the people of this country that
America should live in peace with
the world. Mr.. Wilson has won ey-
cry diplomatic controversy He has
made even Germany yield. The men
who complain, many of them, are
pro-English; but, they never criticise
Mr.. Wilson for being patient with
ical violations of international Gus
toms in dealing with the mails and
trade of America. They are willing
| for him to be patient with a power
| in which they are personally interest
ed. They criticise his foreign polics
| because he has been patient and far
! sighted in his dealings with Ger
many. This nation is absolutely neu-
! trail so far as it's heart, its spirit, and
| it's mind are concerned. We ought to
! be just as lenient with Germany as
we have been with England. Both
must be treated alike. The fact that
| Mr.. Wilson has won all of his diplo-
matte controversies, and even made
Germany yield what she considered
great weapon of defense, is to mis-
credit. He has won. He has won.
not by the force of arms, but by the
force of logic, by the power of JUS
! tice, humanity and righteousness. No
/ nation has confronted the delicate
! situations ours has in the last two
! years. No president has ever CON
! fronted the complications Mr.. Will
! son has been forced to handle and
adjust. He has guided this nation
| through a field mined with crises,
/ but he has brought it to a place of
comparative safety and at peace with
! the world.
/ Could Mr.. Hughes have done
, more? Would he have plunged us
into war? Is he sorry that we are
at peace? Does he seek the presi-
dency in order that he may show
the bombastic spirit, raise the mill
itary flag, and perhaps sacrifice the
flower of America upon a useless
battlefield? What better work could
he have done than Mr.. Wilson to
keep peace? Then, why change?
Then, why Mr.. Hughes?
Mr.. Wilson believes in a sane,
/ sound, permanent, patriotic Ameri-
can preparedness. Does Mr.. Hughes
believe in less? Does Mr.. Hughes
believe in more? Does Mr.. Hughes
propose to do anything un-Ameri-
can? Does he propose to yield to the
Infamous money-loving, munition-
manufacturing, military gods, and
plunge this nation into an un-Ameri-