Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-07
Hadgs Keynote Speech Sounds ie Call for Republican Restoration and Am

ocracy's failure to reduce Il. though II
risked and almost accomplished the ruin
of our good fortune in attempting It; second,
to declare there is no such thing. What
was thought TO be the high cost were only
the higher demands and the larger capacity
TO buy. which were the natural reflexes OF
the higher standard Of living reared under
Republican protection.
The one notable advance in cost has prof
tied the American farmer, for whose be-
fitting share in good fortune we have stood
unfallingiy and sincerely. His reward is
n Republican achievement, and we prefer to
cling to the conditions which brought to
agriculture its delayed but deserved re-
ward and hold II secure In Republican
maintenance of home market unmatched
in all the world. More. we want our basic
prosperity to be home-created and home-
sustained, and not dependent on conditions
abroad
Let us agree-nay, let us boast--that
American industry can compete with any
in all the world, under like conditions But
we also boast a condition. created through
isolation and maintained by protection,
wherein the rate Of American wages Is twice
or thrice to ten times that of Old World
competition. Reduce our wages and we
shall have conditions more nearly equal,
but no Republican will consent to that We
are willing to standardze the wages of the
world. We are as fit to lead in doing that
as we were te fix the newer guarantees of
liberty and independence but we Republi-
cans do not mean to lower our scales to eff
feet the levelinE. We want the world meas
urements raised to Our heights. Until II Is
done we shall cling to American wages for
American workmen, American markets for
American products, and hold the Republican
guaranty OF our material good fortune.
The nations abroad and the Democratic
party at home are bearing witness to Re-
publican wisdom. German Industrial self
reliance is the sequence TO her adoption of
Republican protective tariff and England's
manifest conversion to this fostering plan
Will magnify the prophetic wisdom of Re-
publican protectlonists. Even the Democratic
party Is penitent now and makes confession
In action II not in words. The proposed
destruction of American sugar has been
repealed, and simulated grief about the
American breakfast table has been put
aside. With that facility for changing
position which has been made manifest from
baltimore to Vera Cruz, the party in power
proposes to restore tho tariff commls sion
which IL had hastened to destroy.
This change of attitude is not because of
It's great and manifest love of commissions
alone but because failure is written across
every paragraph of Democratic revision
and fear is haunting the White House
slumbers. The Wilson Administration has
sensed the country's anxiety about indus
trial conditions when the revelry in NUM-
tlons and the immunity granted by war
are ended. 1t has made reflective estl-
mate of the perils of 1914, once called
psychological, and means to apply stolen
remedy, with more concern about the ef-
fects than the ethics involved We do not
oppose a tariff commission. We favor It.
1t is a Republican creation. We do not
want one, however. conceived in Demo-
cratic hostility to American industry or
managed in Democratic opposition to bust
ness success. We would hasten the pro-
tective defense against foreign invasion,
to guarantee our Industrial security, and
then let tariff commission deliberately and
scientifically work out tho needs of Amerl-
can preference.
No honest business in this country Is too
big to be good and useful, or too little to be