Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-07-21
MYRON 7. HEBRICk
Governor Herrick In Fulton County
Serious Questions That Demand The
Careful Consideration of American
Citizens Presented by a Typical
American.

At the invitation of the Fulton
County Herrick Voters League, Ex-
Governor Myron T. Herrick spent
Monday of this week in Fulton coun-
ty meeting the citizens and speaking
to groups of the people at k'ayette,
Archbold, Pettisville, Delta and Swan
ton and closing strenuous day with
an address at the court house in Wau-
seon Monday evening. Mr.. Hereick
impressed the, peoplewhom he met in
Fulton county with his sincere un-
selnsh patriotism and his grasp of the
world situation at the present time
particularly the relation of our own
nation to the conditions that exist or
are likely to exist in the future.
One thing that Mr.. Herrick had
very little TO say about, was his own
candidacy for nomination as candi-
date for U S. Senator on the Repub-
han ticket. Members of the Herrick
Voters League had expected that Mr..
herricks nam purpose in coming into
the county would be to present his
claims upon the consideration of the
voters, but Mr.. Herrick left that for
others to do, ii they felt so disposed
and devoted his time to presenting
various phases of some of the many
serious questions now before the
American people for solution.
Mr.. Hernck motored through from
Toledo Monday morning accompanied
by his son, Mr.. Parmalee Herrick and
a secretary, Mr.. Koppes: Escorted by
members OF the Herrick Voters League
Mr.. Herrick drove to Fayette, Arch
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speaking to groups that gathered in.
the various places, except in Arch
bold and Pettisville where he spent
hrs time in meeting and eonversing
with as many as possible but did not
attempt any speech making. Every
where people seemed to be intensely
interested in what Mr.. Herrick had to
say and unwilling to have him stop
talking: At Wauseon the WauseOn
Band played several selections preced-
ing the meeting at the court house and
the court room was comfortably well
filed with people when Mr.. Herrick
began speaking at about $3.50. His
address was worthy of publication in
full but unfortunately we are unable
to do that in this issue, however we
give herewith extracts from his ad-
dresses in the county Monday that
seem TO be of special importance at
this time and in another column we
print in full Mr.. Herricks remarks in
regard to American Neutrality:
OF the many issues that press upon
the minds and hearts of Americans,
that Of first Importance is the deter
mintion of the attitude of the United
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under the new conditions disclosed or
created by the European War. Shall
we make our army and navy adequate
to the protection Of American inter
ests, strong enough to uphold our
country in that place of international
power which circumstances are forc-
ing upon us?
D l have seen something Of the terrible
waste and desolation that war has
wrought in Europe, and l would be
loath indeed to see this nation at war.
Yet in the last two years we have seen
forces that we had thought were long
since tanned break into open conflicts;
navies which we had pictured as mere
policemen of the worlds highways and
armies that we had imagined were
only guardians of internal order are
now engaged in the greatest war of
all time. However much we desire
peace, yet in the midst of world at
war we cannot close our eyes to the
fact that war may be forced upon US.
We ought not to invite attack by be-
ing unready.
In domestic affairs as well as in
foreign policy we have our serious
problems. Every man who knows
anything about the internal affairs of
this country realizes that our pres
ent prosperity is based on the war in
Europe, and that it has come not be-
cause of but in spite of the Under
wood tariff law. That law, in the nine
months it was in force before the war
began, had started US on the sure
road to industrial breakdown and
financial disaster. But the war in
Europe has made our chief competi-
tors into our best customers for a
time. We are selling war products to
them at the rate of $300,000,000 a
month, and, the imports that normally
come from Europe have been checked
more effectually than any tariff could
check them. The war is the explana-
ton, and the only explanation, for
such prosperity as we have.
The ending Of the war will put our
industrial capacity to a new test.
When Lloyd George, the great English
leader, was in France in the early
months of the war, learned from
him that England and France, realiz-