The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-10-19
HUGH S Is THE
N \ FIR CRISIS
Ex-senator Chas. w. Fulton Points
Out Many Shortcomings of Demo-
cratic Administration and Tells
People What To Expect
After War.

"The American people never fac
ed greater crisis in a quarter of a
century than now and the Demo-
cratic party has proven entirely in
competent to serve the best interests
of the people said Chas. w. Fulton,
ex-United States Senator from Ore
gon in addressing six hundred vot-
ers at the Star theatre in this city
last Monday night.
Since the Democratic party has
been in control of the government
the high cost of living has in creased
thirty-three and one-third per cent.
To more fully show why this is the
cause, Mr.. Fulton explained the work.
ing of the free trade policy which was
inaugerated in 1913 under the Under
wood tariff bill. In 1918 this bill
was passed. This was ten months
before the war broke out in Europe.
At the time the bill was passed, this
country held in the balance of trade,
,$600,000,000. After this law had
operated for ten months, industries
began to languish and our balance of
trade fell off $342,OO0,OOO, and the
subsequent importation of foreign
made goods put factories out of busi-
ness in this country. Millions of
men were thrown out of employment
and it was at this time that SOUP
houses in the larger cities were es-
tablished to feed the unemployed.
The ex-senator from Oregon called
attention to the fact that the me-
mory of the American people must
lie short indeed If they have so soon
forgotten the conditions existing in
demorilized industries following close
upon tie inauguration of Prea dent
Wilson. During these ten months 60
per cent Of the railroad mileage in
the United States went into the hands
of the receivers and there were 49,
400 failures of different kinds in the
industrial world.
! Then came the war in Europe.
Millions of men marching to the bat
tie fields left vacant places in the fac
tories and there at once became de-
mand for products of one kind and
another which only this country could
supply. 1t was then that the demo-
cratic prosperity first became appar-
ent. Yet the oncoming industrial de-
preston had gained such headway
that it took the fighting armies of
Europe more than year to over
come the ever growing disaster.
After the war has come to an end
there will be condition which this
country will have to meet that the
democratic party, with it's free trade
policies will be unable to cope with.
The war demand for our products will
have ceased. We will be forced to
meet competition such as the world
has never seen before. The batter
ed nations of Europe will be striving
to regain their former standing in
the world of trade and commerce.
They will be better fitted to do this
through the education they have re-
ceived in the school of hardship and
practical economy 1t is then that
this country will need protection for
her industries as never before. 1t
is then that the republican party
with its policies of a strong protec-
tive policy will be needed as never
before.
Mr. Fulton took up and dis usseI
at length the Democratic platform of
1912 and clearly showed how Presi-
dent Wilson had repudiated his cam
paign pledges. Have the people be-
come so blind by the cry of "he
kept us out of war" that they can no
longer see the namby-pamby vaccil-
liating methods used by Mr.. Wilson
and his party relative to these things.
1t is here, that the Mexican situation
looms large as an administrative
blunder. Others were the single
term plank and the exemption of tolls
for American coastwise vessels and
that plank guaranteeing protection
to American citizens at home and a.
broad. In their platform, the demo-
Gratis also attacked the preceding ad-
ministration and violently decried the
extravaganza of republican rule and
the subsequent high cost of living.
Turning back through the pages of
brief democratic rule as recorded in
history is evidence enough as to
whether they have kept faith with
the people or not.
Mr.. Fultons address was interrupt
ed at various intervals by the hearty
applauds of his audience. A strong
Hughes sentiment is manifest.
Better secure ticket now at the
Star theatre for "Thelma' before all