South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-18
Nation S Prosperity
Is Not the Result
Of War Business

tons OF Candidate Hughes for after
the war. Jonn A. NJ Adair dem
ocratic candidate for governor.
points out that less than three per-
cent OF our enormous export trade
! is described as war orders" or
placed in the munition class.
The insinuation OF the Hughes
speeches. and those of lesser lights
among the Indiana office seekers,
is that all our foreign commerce to-
DAY is confined 10 war orders That
after the war closes and these or
ders cease. our foreign commerce
Will be nothing. save the great
European countries will deluge US
with cheap goods.
This stuff has been offered so
much and answered. that Mr.. Adair
s2ys If the republicans insist upon
insulting the intelligence Of Amer
lean citizens talking about the in
ability of America 10 compete with
the shot-to-pieces countries of
Europe, ne thinks the democratic
party ought not offer further insult
by answering. Simply because the
republicans dare not face and dis
cuss the accomplishments of the
| Wilson and Ralston administrations
and since they have no issue 10 talk
about. all they can do is TO rear a
scarecrow in the future and try to
I brighten someone.
L. 5. Can Compete.
IF we competed successfully in
| every country of Europe. placing our
manufactured goods in the open
markets of those countries at a pro-
tit, nobody is foolish enough TO say
we cannot compete in our own home
and against the same people" de
/ clares Mr.. Adair.
There is not a thing that we
can not manufacture here cheaper
than it can be made in any Euro
pean country. and still we pay the
limit of high wages.
Under the Underwood tariff. pre-
ceding the breaking out Of the
European war" says Mr. Adair. I'VE
/ had more revenue than the Payne
Aldrich tariff ever produced in the
same length of time. Why do Mr..
/ Hughes and Jim Watson, and Jim
Goodrich. and Jim Hemenway, and
/ Joe Healing. and Harry New, and
/ Charlie Fairbanks, and Joe Cannon,
and Boies Penrose. and Reed Smoot,
and Murray Crane, and all the rest
of that splendid bunch of progress
sive. self-sacrifcing Americans
spend all their time deploring the
fact that Woodrow Wilson has not
interviewed in Mexico, and complain
/ ing because Woodrow Wilson has
not sacrificed a few hundreds OF
thousands of young Americans that
tn. Mexican interests of Wall st
might be enhanced and the political
ambition of this same bunch OF Of
fee hungry patriots might be pro-
NOTED.
People Are Satisfied.
You can never convince me that
the American people will endorse
the TRADE of any candidate who
takes the side of foreign country
against his own when a serious dip
| lomatic controversy is pending. l do
not know how other people look at
il. but II strikes me that the Amer
! lean fathers and mothers and wives
and sisters are pretty we'll satisned
that we have our sons and our hus-
! bands and our brothers with us. We
have sacrificed nothing of honor
We have all our demands and con-
tentions conceded by other nations
We have accomplished all by diplo-
macy that the most bitter war the
world has ever seen could possibly
| bring.
we have not FIVE million wild
ows; we have not seven millions of
dead on the battle field and more
than twice that number wounded
and manned for life; we have not
p millions of fatherless children;
we have a nation of happy homes;
we have peace and prosperity and
| happiness. and unbroken family cir
/ cles; what has any European coun-
/ try as the result of the most dis
/ astrous war the world will ever
know. that we have not and that we
wish for?
AsSaiIed Wilson.
What can any European coun-
/ try have at the end of the war that