Arizona republican., 1916-10-13
LUSITANIA NEED
 NOT HAVE BEEN
 SUNK HE SAYS
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.S eEnNE84u4Iksx11 U l LlSHED with respect to the action threatened, would have made it f known in terms unequivocabIe and un- mistakable that we should not tolerate a continuance of friendly relations through the ordinary diplomatic chan nels if that action were taken.
 And the lusitanis, sir, would never have been sunk"
 The audience applauded long and loudly.
 Charles E. Hughes went through the | mountains of Kentucky today, new campaign field for presidential nomi i nees, outlining his views on the main i tenance of American rights, and ended , his days tour of the state with meet | ing here tonight in which he declared 1 that the new freedom" advocated by President Wilson four years ago had been transmitted in one respect to the new slavery"
 MT Hughes spoke in six towns to- day to audiences that had come, for the most part, for miles to hear him. | They came down from the mountains, men and women, on foot, on horseback, and on muleback Some of the mounts had saddles some had none, and many of the women that came to hear him came wearing their faded sunbonnets 1 and smoked their clay pipes. At Pike ville the first stop of the day, hundreds had journeyed since sun up. A special ! train from Marrowdone, crowded to | capacity, swelled the crowd.
 At several stops the nominees spe- cial train was backed down spur | track and he spoke to audiences in the | open fields. They sat on their horses and mules and in their farm wagons to listen. Some brought their families along and there were several hundred 1 children, including babies in their | mothers arms, in each of these audi l ences.
 | In his speech in Phoenix Hill hall here tonight. MT. Hughes devoted much 1 of his attention to the protective tariff and to what he termed the new slav- cry
 We have heard much of the new | freedom" he said. Tt seems to have a surprising and deplorable range It has meant freedom to sacrifice the l principles of the merit system which | our opponents pledged themselves to | enforce. Thousands of offices have been created with the provision that i they might be filled without reference to the requirements of the civil service 1 act. It has meant freedom to embark the government in novel enterprises in | competition with private business as in | the case of the government shipping bill. FraSx# l Ut has meant freedom to depart from l the principles of international law to conduct a personal diplomacy to satisfy i personal vindictiveness. It has meant | freedom to wage war not to protect | American rights but to dislodge a dis liked ruler and to leave our citizens and | their property to anarchy and revo- l lution.
 Tt means freedom to subvert the l principles of government by yielding authority to the demands of force. In i this vast phase, instead of the new l freedom we have the new slavery ! What are the characteristics of this new slavery? It is the use of the forms of free institutions to tyrannize the | public to impose demands without in quiry as to their justice.
 "The new slavery is government by hold-up It is terrorized government 1 or the rule of politics assuming terror as an excuse for submission. The eX- ecutive is chosen to defend the citadel of constitutional government. Instead l he surrenders il. Where shall this | stop?
 These innovations are serious blows ] to American business. IL is said that these laws stood in need of definition; that men spoke of them as shackles and the administration seems to wish to create the impression that il has l unsha ~kled business.
 "A most extraordinary claim! They say that they supplied the needed def ! milton. They have done nothing of l the sort. They have added d vague | phrase to the law. the phrase unfair ] competition. The content of this they have not defined. No phrase more in definite was ever put into statute
 Usually words are used in a salute l with some reference to their meaning I in the law. But the phrase unfair competition is evidently not used in it's ordinary legal sense. That refers to the palming off of one mans goods | as those of another through misleading 1 descriptions, labels. cartons and the like. There were and are abundant remedies for that sort of thing, as every | well informed merchant knows
 This phrase as used in the new law was evidently intended to have wider meaning than that What is it's mean ing? No lawyer knows. It will have to be worked out through years of litigation and by the decisions of courts, for the federal trade commis- sion cannot settle the legal meaning of the statute which confers it's authority.
 Pet the administration complacently speaks of aiding business by defining the evils aimed at by the antitrust acts. Not only does the federal trade commission act not define what it means by unfair competition. but it leaves the anti trust act in full effect as before"
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