Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-21
BUSINESS DOESN'T
MIX WITH POLITICS
First Need of the Country Is to
Give Protection to Amer
lean Enterprises.
HUGHES ON PACIFIC COAST

i diences here and IN Oakland that the
government of the United States
could not be properly conducted by
mixing politics with business, with
preparedness, with the maiste-
nance of international honor, or with
other administrative functions of gov
eminent.
when you start out to be military,
be military and not political Mr..
Hughes told an audience in Oakland.
Il do not believe we can run this
government by mixing business and
politics, the nominee said to gath
ering of business men here a short
time before the Oakland meeting
AT Oakland, Mr.. Hughes repeated
his declaration that he favored foster
ing honorable American achievements
in business and adjusting decisions by
finding the facts and acting upon
them.
Afraid Of Only the Dark.
you can break down your pros
perity by prostituting yourself in the
face OF an unjust popular demand"
Mr.. Hughes said. II shall never do
that. And the unjust popular demand
is only unjust because the facts are
not understood.
"The only thing am afraid of in
this country is the dark. When we
get things out into the light OF day
and see the actual facts we generally
find out where the truth and justice
lie.
Some people live in dreamland,"
Mr.. Hughes continued, in speaking Of
the need for military and commercial
preparedness They do not under
stand the actual world we live in"
The nominee spoke OF the federal
commissions to investigate various
situations. saying:
Need Of Experts.
I'VE have developed commissions
Of investigation. What do they amount
to unless we have expert commits
sionersf Commissions are nothing ex-
cept as they are dominated by good
sense, inspired by loyalty and patriot
Ism and controlled by the facts and
the justice of the case before them.
Il believe we can put down what
b wrong without destroying what is
good. In wedding our garden we do
not want to pull up the useful plants.
We do not desire in correcting abuses
to destroy the opportunities OF sue
cess We are competent, II we 90
about it in the right way, to destroy
abuses, to secure open and fair deal
ing, and at the same time make pos
sib.e honest enterprise.
I'VE cannot 60 forward unless we
realize ourselves nationally. We must
more than ever understand that ma
tional powers are to be exercised and
that national prosperity can be gained
only BY the potency Of our national
organization"
For Visible oovernment.
Mr., Hughes declared himself op-
posed to invisible government. 4
want" he said, visible government,
competent administration, not only b,
those elected, but by the appointees Of
elected officers who represent the
competence, the intelligence and the
talent Of the nation. We are entitled
to that"
In his address to the business men
ot San Francisco at the Commercial
club, Mr.. Hughes spoke in part as
follows:
We come to . conservative period
= difficult period, period in which
America must look forward with rrea-
er confidence in the soundness OF our
life than It has hitherto had. We have
had an abundant surgery. Nobody
can live by surgery alone, however
necessary It may be.
Need Hygienic Treatment.
We have got to have hygienic treat.
ment. The system OF the patient
must be built up by abundant exercise,
by fresh air and abundant nutrition.
am glad to think that we are ready
for that forward movement, and !
think we can be sure that we can con-
troll monopolistic parties, and that we
can prevent unjust discrimination.
We can secure square deal and
yet we can foster enterprise, build up
and not destroy, encourage and not
fetter, and make the honorable nan Of
business feel that he has free avenue
to an honest success.
II we cannot so Judge the United
States, then our future is troublous
one. and we will fail, as great nations
OF the past have failed. We are but a
young people. We are only an experi-
ment. Nations several times our age
have persisted and left but scant
memorials. We have, as I say, a very
difficult system Of government, Il
requires constant attention, and con-
slant study and attention on the part
Of those who know. The man who
knows is the man | want to talk 10
about every department of life.
Correct Principles Needed.
Il do not believe it is necessary 10
prostitute public business in order N
have the confidence Of the electorate.
, think that Is great mistake. What
we need in this country, as I have
sad, Is, first to have correct princi-
pies.
This Is q non-partisan gathering. I
40 not want to abuse It by talking in
partisan way, but should be unjust
TO myself IT did not say that as I
principle-as 2 principle which, Of
course, must b carefully and pru.
IDENTIFY applied--that we must have
the idea of protecting American en-
tcrprises against the cooperation az
other nations acting under their
products on different basis, in re.
1 epect to wages and standards Of living
from what we have. We must nor ~
AFRAID Of perfect cooperation.
Everywhere along the line from
this time on we have got to consider.
{ what each one can do. not In n h.nha.'