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HUGHES THREATENS WAR
AT HOME AND ABROAD
/ IndOrsed by Hughes, Cause Wide
spread UneasineSS.

Under the title Roosevelt and
War;" the Sioux City 0owa) Daily
Tribune, an independent newspaper,
calls attention to Roosevelt's war
policy towards Germany, as declared
in his Battle Creek, Michigan, speech
of October Z, and demands enlight-
enment as to whether Roosevelt will
dominate American foreign policy il
Hughes is elected.
This editorial is typical of many
that have appeared recently in 1nde-
pendent and Republican newspapers.
Inasmuch as Hughes gave blanket
Endorsement to the Roosevelt speech
at Portland, Maine, in September, and
has not qualified the Endorsement to
date, it is assumed widely that the
Colonel's campaign tactics still have
Hughes approval.
Roosevelt at Battle Creek, as ap-
piled both to foreign affairs and the
Adamson Eight-Hour Law, demand
ed direct reversal of President
Wilson's policies. Candidate HUI
ghes has used terms more vague, but
with the same apparent meaning.
Everything now indicates an attempt
/ to repeal the Eight-Hour Law if HUI
ghes becomes President. Hence the
election of Hughes would mean not
only war abroad and with Mexico,
/ but an industrial war at home.
"In the State of Henry Ford, Colo
mel Roosevelt is at work to destroy
pacifsm and Wilson," says the Sioux
/ City Tribune "In a stirring speech
at Battle Creek he quickened the
blood of his hearers and made it
plain that if he was candidate for
the Presidency men would not have
to ask, What would you have done?'
He would fight"
The editor of the Tribune then
quoted an Associated Press Dispatch
reporting Roosevelt's words at Bat
tie Creek:
81 have been asked what l would
have done if l had been President,
when the Lusitania was torpedoed,'
shouted the speaker.
"I would have instantly taken
possession of every German ship in
termed by this country and then L
would have said: Now we will dis
cuss not what you will give, but
what we will give back!"
The editorial continued: This
utterance, says the veraciOus Asso-
ciated Press, was received by wild
applause.
"Of course it was. A warmed up
crowd likes fight, and the Colonel
would have given them one right off
the bat when the Lusitania went
down, had he been President. There
will never be an excuse again for
doubling that"
'The editor of the Tribune was
younger then, but that's the way he
felt when a British man-of-war took
off an American ship Mason and Sill
dell, the rebel commissioners, who
had been captured, on their way ov-
er to Europe to make trouble for this
That's the way SeGretarp
Seward felt, too. and had he been
President the North would have TAX
en- on Great Britain for fight along
with the well nigh unconquerable
Southerners. But President Lincoln
overruled his great Secretary OF
State and proceeded with the busi-
ness of saving the union,' the main
thing.
Wars are much matter of tenn
permanent and governmental organl-
zation, but some men have intellects
that subordinate feelings and these
may not be brushed aside. Lincoln
was much wiser than Seward, or the
men on the street, in their day. His
heart was set on a great purpose and
he proceeded calmly toward it and
so came into imperishable renown.
Nobody now supports the Seward
contention.
1T was not our time to get into
war, although there was provacatlon
and feeling to warrant combative
! leader to plunging in. There was
| feeling to justify what Colonel
| Roosevelt would have done had he
been President when the Lusitania
was assassinated. But would it have
extorted from Germany an admis-
sion of her error? Would it have
saved the precedent in international
law? Would it have stopped the
slaughter by Germany's underseas
navy? There's room to doubt it.
ANY way, since that danger has
passed by, it affords theme of in
teresting conversation. There is
quite full agreement now that had
Colonel Roosevelt been President
there would have been things going
on that would have shaken the foun-
dations. In place of placid and
persistent administration we would
have had one of thrills and terrors. !"
The editorial concluded:
However, what the Colonel would
have done is not so important ques-
ton as what he may effect now by
installing an administration which
will not follow such a course as Will
son followed
"The Colonel's real complaint is
that he was not in a position to
move Wilson's hand. Will he be in
position to move the hand of HUI
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