The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-08

uHprtpdteuHessf i wish nhd the
time to go into that subject here to-
night
AS a result of our unpreparedness,
we found the young men of the guard
throughout our country sent down
there on the border, sworn into the
regular army OF the United States, be-
cause we did not have a regular army
big enough to keep the bandits over
our line. applause I never heard
of more extraordinary expedition
than that punitive expedition we sent
down there. Was 1t a military ex-
petition or was it not?
~ 1t was not a military expedition
why send It? If it was a military ex-
petition why ignore all the essential
requisites of properly managed mill
tary cxpendition? 1t went down be-
tween two lines of railroads II could
not use either. our troops couldn't go
to any town. 1t was an absurdly ar
ranged expedition. OF course, it could
not succeed, OF course, we got into
trouble and more blood was shed.
my friends, we have made people
dislike us because we did not have a
straight and clear path. The path of
international right is like the path of
the just that shineth here more and
more unto the perfect day 1t does not
make any difference who your OPP
ponent is. If you state a position that
Is right ar he knows that 1t Is rign',
you are going to establish the justice
OF your cause. And America with her
power. never need be AFRAID of
espousing just cause. When you
take wrong course when you do
that which every international lawyer
knows is wrong, which every foreign
cfflce know is wrong, why then they
will resist you II they can and II they
cannot they will hate you and Will per-
sist in a bitter animosty because they
feel that you are unjustly tahInS Az
vantage of the situation.
I'VE have got great deal that we
nave got to overcome, Let the Mex
leans for all understand that we do
not intend to NEEDLE with their af-
fairs, that we desire that they shall
perform their obligations to us, to pro-
tect them Justly In the enjoyment OF
their lives and their porperty; that
they will perform the guarantees that
they have given US and then we shall
have peace and happiness. If they
can establish stable government we
Will do all that we can to support 1t
Talk about policy What Is the
Presidents policy? Does any one
know. Has the executive ever had a
policy for more than six months in
the Mexican question? / repeat, who
knows today what the policy of the
administration will be three months
from now? The trouble Is that his
has written O. record
that. no matter what II says. you
don't know whether it will respect It,
You cannot make much progress
along that line"
Delivers Many Speeches
In addition to his two big speeches
here tonight, Mr., Hughes delivered
four other addresses during hts stay
In Detroit.
The first was that made before the
delegation of welfare workers In
regular order after that he, spoke to
the represe natives of the women s.
party, to the employees OF the Dodge
plant and to the workingmen at the
Cadillac plant.
To the suffragists Mr.. Hughes re-
iterated his stand for suffrage by
Federal amendment. 10 which he said
he had nothing to add.
In the address to the welfare work
ers he said:
In your welfare work you are
doing not only what ia worth while
here, but you are setting a great ex-
ample You are buttressng democ-
racy. The human factor is. after all,
the important factor. You may de-
Yelop your physical plants, your ply
steal instrumenta}ities, distribution
and everything that goes to make up
the material side of prosperity, but
you are, absolutely hopeless without
the human factor, ard III America
the land OF freemen, the man who
is at work for a living must feel that
the country is doing the best thing
by him
Must Protect Worker.
HOW can he refuse the job which
stands between. him and starvation
II IL perfectly idle to say in our in
dustrial conditions that he can take
or refuse the work according TO his
idea of the safety appliances which
may be provided to protect him. You
have got to protect him. No man
can work in any position where his
life, his limbs or his health are sub
Ject to any unnecessary risk. That
is good America nism, and that is
good business.
We have got TO have production
ana all we can get for IL, and after
this war is over we have got TO look
out that we are able to maintain our
selves in competition with other ma
tons: but you cannot permanently in
democracy have successful production
with discontinued workinemen
Therefore, / am delighted with
every means that is taken in this In
telliEent and very practicable way to
provide for the betterment OF human
living, to elevate the standards OF
life, to provide means of wholesale
recreation, TO prevent men from be-
ing imposed upon so that every one In
the community who works with his
hands can go contentedly and hap
ply to work without any notion that
he is not being treated as a reasonable
being and being encouraged accord
ing to his talents to be an efficient
and successful workingman."
Prosperity Pleases Him.
In his address at the Dodge plant
which he substantially repeated al
the Cadillac plant, Mr.. Hughes said
Nothing pleases me more than to
md labor prosperous and well-treated
There Is nothing in Detroit. with all
It's marvellous growth. that Is so i'm
pressiNe as the disposition that has
been shown to give fair consideration
TO the reasonable demands of labor
Now, l have always believed that
when you have anything to settle, you
could settle IL very quickly when
you could get at The facts. All tina,
labor wants is. | understand, a square
deal on the facts. They want to be
protected. You want to be protected
from any unnecessary injury. You
want TO have wholesome conditions
You want to have reasonable hours.
You want to have fair opportunity