New Britain herald., 1916-10-31

his car and applauded him at vari- ous points in his brief address. At Mingo Junction the whistles of the big steel plant any many locomotives in the yards proclaimed his arrival and hundreds of wOrAers clanbered over the high fence to hear him. They applauded him frequently.
 Many were turned away from Me- merial hall at Zanesville, where MT. Hughes spoke, and the hall was crowded with an audience that in terrupted him from time to time to cheer and voice it's own comments on what he said. These were of a friend ly nature except once, when a group of men cheered for Wilson. That was after MT. Hughes had declared i've cannot afford to open our markets to the productions of underpaid labor in Europe and let our men walk the streets in idleness.
 "I4et me tell you this,'' he told the crowd at Steubenville, the iron and steel manufacturing establishments of Europe have scarcely been touched by the war. On the contrary, the war itself has caused great increase in the efficiency and productivity of
 
 that, the raw materials used in iron and steel manufacture have not been touched by the war.
 There they are: they have got their raw materials, they have got their manufacturing plants, they have got their men and they are ready to produce. When the war ends there is going to be the most efficient pro- duction in this trade not only here, but throughout the world, and not only will American labor lose the op- portunities that it now has, created by the war, but it will have to com pete with the lower-paid labor of Europe.
 America Is Not Ready
 "It is no time for men to go is ready. It is not ready. America has got it's Underwood bill, and it has not in the ranks of our oppo- nents any disposition to change 1t. They have got the doctrine to which they have adhered for generations. They say we will give you a tarlll commission, I believe in a tariff com mission. We want the facts, tut they talk about the tariff commission as though it were a legislative body, as though it had some authority to pass tariff bills. They know very well that it will sit in congress re. ccir:ng the reports of the tariff conl- mission and giving such attention to then as they may desire"
 In his Zanesville speech MT. Hughes declared that the number of men killed and permanently disabled in the war was less than the average in- crease of the industrial population as young men became of Industrial age" What an extraordinary thing 1t is," he said, that this country, which through the protective princi- pie has built these great industries, should think for a moment of an abandonment of that principle when all the other great nations of the world are adopting it.
 A House Without Foundations.
 There are some people who seem to think that if you are going to build a house you can have windows and doors and various things per taining to the upper stories and get along without any foundation at all. Now I am not interested in that kind of architecture. If you are going to have a parlor in which you can en- certain your friends, and dining room in which you can sit down to a good square meal, and bay win dow which will command beautiful outlook on the world, you have got to have a foundation for your house,
 And the foundation in American life is a chance to work; the foun- dation in American life is a chance to have plants that are busy; the foundation in American life is to get behind American enterprise and make it hum, so long as it Is honest straightforward.
 That is what I stand for"