Arizona republican., 1916-08-17
AN OBLIGATION THERE BOUND TO
 BE DISCHARGED
[RepubIlcan A. p. Leased wire1

PORTLAND. Ore. Aug 16.-Charles F. Hughes, before q large audience in the ice rink here tonight assailed the democratic party for its policy toward the Philippines.
 We cannot afford, in this country 10 lose sight of national obligations" Hr Hughes said. our friends on the other side were almost ready 10 say that we should abandon the Philip pines. That was matter of national honor. We assumed obligations there which we are bound to discharge
 Tt is not so much a matter or self interest l do not care so much. with respect to the argument Of self in- terest. But when this nation under takes. before the world. responsi- bility t must discharge it.
 And we ought not to consider the suggestion of scuttlng ont Of the Philippines 10 leave them in the pre- dicament which you know perfectly well without my describing it
 We need more of a sense of ohliga- ton as individuals If we have the sense of national honor a dominant consciousness of national unity, an up- building policy of conserving the op- portunities of American enterprises. we shall do well but we need still more. We need. throughout our ad- ministrative departments. high stand ards of public work We need effi- ciency in every department of Ameri- can government"
 Mr. Hughes, speaking on the tariff. referred 10 e letter written. he said, by 'an eminent democrat" on July 2S Co the president Of the Illinois Manu- lecturers association. in which it was said that "it ought to be possible to make the question of duties merely a question Of progress and development
 T don't care whether this letter is authentic or not" Mir Hughes said If lt K not authentic. then the provision of law is little more than sham. 1T it Is authentic. it does not represent the sentiment of the democratic party
 The nominee reiterated his argu- ments for a protective tariff. for com mercial preparation for competition with Europe after the war. for req sonable. adequate preparedness" and repeated his declaration that the dem ocratic party was opposed to national progress.
 Why. if i were member of that uarty-and I speak with all good na- ture. because we are threshng things out here now-and looked through the platforms of the past l should feel l vas going through a cemetery richly embellished with monuments Mir. Hughes referred to the number of unemployed in 1914. due largely. he said. to the Underwood tariff They knew why they were unem ployed.' he said. Every one of them was tariff expert. There were 300. 900 unemployed tariff experts in the city of New York alone.
 You can't put American working men alongside of workingmen of other | countries who work at less wages and expect the American workingmen to survive. You have got to get down to the common basis of cooperation It is perfectly idle to suppose you can have the American wage scale and the | American standard of geods and lei in goods made under a lower standard of living without hurting American enterprises and American working men"
 Tn reference to Alaska. MT Hughe,
 said:
 q would not have much confidence in speaking of new spirit in Ameri.
 can life if I did not believe in the in tegritv of the business men o | America I believe that we can dC
 things right in this country and de. velop our resources. You have got aI
 empire in Alaska: I want to see it de