Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-09
NEED NEW TARIFF
TO PREVENT RUIN
G. w. Fairbanks, in Address at
Seattle, Discusses After
War Trade Conditions.
LESSON OF TWO YEARS AGO

Uniy d Transient prosperity, DdSco
upon the temporary necessities Of
war and that with the end of the
European conflict stored goods from
European factories will come down
upon our industries "as the flood upon
Jamestown" was sounded by Charles
w. Fairbanks, republican candidate
for vice president. in an address here
tonight. Mr.. Fairbanks made a plea
for the election OF Charles Evans
Hughes and pledged a tariff that
would prevent ruin
The address was said by Mr.. Fair
banks associates to be the most i'm
portant OF his western tour. II was
called the big tariff speech" by mem
bers of the Fairbanks party.
Poindexter Presides.
Senator Miles Poindexter. repub-
lican nominee for senator, and for
mer progressive, presided over the
meeting and introduced Mr.. Fair.
banks. Henry c. Mcbride, republican
candidate for governor, and former
progressive leader, was one OF the
speakers. Prominent republicans OF
both wings of the party were on the
platform, and the meeting, it was an
nounced, marked the beginning OF a
campaign in this state by united
republican party.
Coming to an emphasized part Of
his address Mr.. Fairbanks declared.
"The republican party has always
believed that it is an essential to erect
barriers against commercial invasion
at the hands Of those who are armed
with the unfair weapon of a cheapened
human factor in production, as to pre-
pare FORTS fleets and armies against
possible foe possessing, in better
preparedness, an undue advantage in
combat
1.-THE republican party has realized
and exempted in legislation, the idea
that surrender to the foreign producer
OF the American home market, which,
, under republican policies has become
incomparably the richest in the
world, inevitably involves one OF two
things; the lowering Of our productive
costs, including labor costs, to the
European and oriental level. or the
extinction Of American industry.
How Parties Differ.
1.-THE essential difference between
the democratic and republican parties
today, as ii was In Lincoln's day, is
that Of their underlying attitude to-
ward productive enterprises and
employment. The republican party
has always believed In that policy
which visibly has produced here ma
tional industrial independence the
best possible preparedness either for
war or pcace-which has resulted in
the rapid development OF our re-.
sources and the reservation to the
American people OF the wealth .ac-'
cruing from thcm---the most active
spirit OF industrial and commercial
enterprise that has been at work any
where in the world; the greatest dif-
fused prosperity ever experinccd by
any nation in all history. despite the
fact that throughout an entire half
century OF republican policies we
have been dividing our wealth with
the poverty Of millions Of empty
handed Europeans who have pressed
to our shores for no other reason than
that here they may find better re-
wards and broader opportunities.
"In the single decade between 1900
and 1910 the increase alone in the
wealth OF this country was greater
than the aggregated accretions Of the
countries in the great and prosperous
empire OF Germany. And this was
achieved. not through taking adyan-
tage Of the misfortunes of a world at
war, but Sn the normal and healthfui
activities OF peace; il was the pros-
perity Of achievement and not Of acci-
dent.
Real Social Justice.
1.-THE greatest possible measure OF
social justice is the general profitable,
permanent employment In productive
labor. This is possible. only through
the general. profitable and permanent
employment of capital in productive
industry. II is when employment Of
capital is most general that the wage
worker finds 1t easiest to secure rec
ognition OF his demands for better
pay. hours and conditions. Under
lying whatever is undertaken through
private or public means to better the
status Of the toiler, must be as the
only assurance Of permxcncy, a sta
bic state OF manufacturing activity,
agricultural prosperity and CONNER
cial confidence, based upon the knowl-
edge that the activities at the time are
founded upon the wise provisions OF
real craftsmanship, rather than upon
the fortuitous circumstances Of for
eign war
ITO restore such foundation for
enterprise and employment where we
learned, before the European war be-
gan. that It was missing, Is the pledge
of the republican party in this cam
paign.
Zone OF the very large issues OF this
campaign and for many years to come
will be, is that issue which touches
in vital way the daily welfare OF the
millions Of wage carriers in this coun-
try
There is no greater. and certainly
no more pathetic misfortune than to
have an army Of the unemployed
within our borders.
New Tariff Brings Idleness.
Under the normal operations OF
the existing tariff law, before the
European war began, we recruited an
army OF the unemployed equal in size
to the army which the British empire
has mobilized for the European war.
The plight Of the man. dependent
upon his labor for his living, cut off
from employment and facing either
hunger or dependence upon charity
for himself and family, is surely not