Evening star., 1916-10-30
Mr.. HUGHES TALKS
OF LARGE EXPORTS
Tells Business Men $2,000,-
100000 Increase Is Mainly
Due to European War.
URGES PROTECTIVE TARIFF

| By the Associated Press.
| EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, october 80.
Charles f. Hughes, replying further
| to statements in President Wilson's
Cincinnati speech, told an audience here
| today that the $4,000, 100000 increase in
| American exports last year was due al
| most exclusively to the demand created
by the European war and cited a state
ment by Chairman Hurley of the fed
eral trade commission to uphold the
| republican claim that America is mot
prepared for post-bellum competition
with Europe"
That s2.0O0,0O0,OO0 Increase Mr..
Hughes said, represents almost eX-
clusively the demand created by the
European war. What are we to do?
There is but one safe course. 1t is idle
to talk about conditions of work if
there is no work And you cannot
have any lasting basis for prosperity
unless you apply the republican doc
trine of protection to American indus
tries
Il was amazed the other day when
the spokesman for the opposing party
told the people that we were ready. He
said in substance that the nations en-
gagged in this struggle are so wasted
by war that we need not fear their
competition.
Regarded a. ."serious Mistake
That is a very serious mistake, if
you want to know what the facts are.
Let those who speak for the opposing
party take the words of the federal
trade commission, spoken almost at
the same time, as result of their
own inquiry. What is the use of hav-
ing so-called expert bodies if we do
not pay any attention to what they
say?
This is what Chairman Hurley of
the federal trade commission said last
week in New York on this very sub
ject-and 1 commend it to the very
serious attention of those who speak
for an opposing policy. He says:
While in many respects we know little
of what is going on in the warning
nations. we do know that within sound
the falling shells, Europe Is re-awak-
ening her industries
He says further, Under the stress of
"a life and death struggle every effort
is being made to attain the highest
efficiency in the production, in the dis
tribution and in the use of comm odities
of all kinds He adds New processes
are being discovered, new inventions
are being made and new forms of or
ganization are being created and that
war has compelled Great Britain to
make thirty years of industrial progress
in thirty months.
Must Keep Pace With Europe"
"If our industries are not to be
caught slow of mind and fiabby of
muscle we must Improve our business
organization. must increase our manu-
featuring and merchandising efficiency,
and must keep pace with every step in
Europe.
THAT is the statement of the board
by the chairman of il. with respect to
increased efficiency abroad. They have
got organization. They have got a
better knowledge of themselves. They
have got better discipline and eff
cheney in production than ever before.
The economic basis of production has
not been affected. Even the waste of
men, in view of the numbers coming
along year by year into industrial ac-
tivity. leaves them with more men to-
day to enter into production than they
had before.
Facts for Business Men.
Now these are facts for American
businessmen and American workingmen
to think carefully over. When it is said
here we need organization. ! agree
When it is said that we need develop
ment of alertness and power. ] agree.
But there is one thing that was not said
1t is the thing which our opponents. in
view of their principles, cannot well say.
1t is thing that We do say. and that
Is. whatever your organization, whatever
your alertness you have got to have
your markets protected against the COM
petition of labor that is paid less than
yon are.
1--WE propose to protect American in
r1yr1 hi try
on the nrincip1e of tariff for revenue
only We want to build up American
industry. protect the American wage
scale and lay the foundation for social
justice"
Mr.. Hughes spoke in the open air
here before a crowd which was so
noisy that his voice could hardly be
heard fifty feet away.
Hughes on His Last Swing.
The last week of Mr.. Hughes presi-
Dental campaign opened with his
speech here today. From East Liver
pool the candidate left for Steuben-
VILE. where his program called for
half-hour stop. He will speak at
GAINESVILLE late today and at Columbus
| tonight.
Mr.. Hughes will spend one day in
ing to New York state. where he will
close his campaign. His first Indiana
speech will be delivered tomorrow
morning at Columbus. He will make
three more speeches in that state dur
| ing the day concluding with night
| speech at Evansville. and Will speak
five times in the state Wednesday. Ten
sneeches in New York state are down
on the program for Thursday and Fri
day. exclusive of meetings in Brooklyn
Friday night. tentatively on the sched-
ule.
banner meeting of their Ohio cam
| paipn will be held in Columbus to-
night. with Mr. Hughes the center Of
attraction Republican state head
quarters announced 1t has received
word that delegations from many Ohio
cities will come for the meeting. Mr..
| Hughes, accompanied by his wife. will
| arrive at Columbus at pm. from
GAINESVILLE, and is to deliver his ad-
dress at o'clock Before speaking he
| will review a parade from his quarters
| in a shotel Red fire. a dozen bands.
| campaign banners galore will appear
| in the parade, 1t has been announced.
| "a vrvfn