Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-04-28
BLUNDERs OF THE
ADMINISTRATION
Wilson Has Failed In Foreign
! and Domestic Policies.
ROOT SHOWS HIS ERRORS.

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mission and omission-aWe Havs
Lost Influence Because We Have
Been Brave In Words and irresoiuts
In Action"
In his address as temporary chair.
man of the New York state Republican
convention. delivered in Carnegie Hall.
New York. the Hon. Elihu Root said:
We are entering upon a contest for
the election of a president and the con-
troll of government under conditions
essentially new In the experience of
our party and OF our country. The
forms and methods which we are
about TO follow are old and familiar,
but the grounds for action. the demand
of great events for decision upon ma
tional conduct, the moral forces urg
ing to a solution of vaguely outlin
ed questions. the tremendous con
sequences of wisdom or folly In nation
al policy, all these are new to the great
mass of American voters now living.
Never since 1864 has an election been
fraught with consequences so vital to
national life. All the ordinary consid-
erations which play SO great a part In
our presidential campaigns are and
ought to be dwarfed into insigniicance.
Democratic Party &c the Bar.
For the first time In twenty years we
enter the field as the party of opposi.
ton. and indeed II is q much longer
time, for in 1896. in all respects save
The tariff, the real opposition to the
sturdy and patriotic curse Of Presi
dent Cleveland was to be found In the
party that followed Mr. Bryan. It is
our duty as the opposition to bring the
Democratic party to the bar of public
Judgment, to put it upon its defense
so far as we see just and substantial
grounds to criticise its conduct and to
ask the voters of he country to decide
whether that party. organized as 1t is.
represented as 1t has beer since IL
came into power. has shown itself
competent to govern the country as 1t
should be governed and whether its
spirit. its policies. and its performance
are the best that the American people
can do in the way of popular self gov
In the field OF domestic affairs some
facts relevant to these questions had
already' been ascertained when In An.
gust. 1914, the great European war
began During the year and a half of
Democratic control of government In
u IlnrinI IF nrnfntnH noOnn Akann hnS
been a steady decrease In American
production. in exports and In revenues
Il Il steady increase in imports and
expenditures. Enterprise had halted.
The Democratic tariff had been framed
mon an avowed Reputation of all pro
lection. however moderate and reason.
able. and because all protection was
~repudiated practically all information
from competent witnesses as to the eff.
feet new provisions would have upon
business was rejected. 1t was with
just cause that the enterprise OF the
country halted. timid and i~rresolute.
because it felt and feared the hostility
of government
Foreign Composition After War.
The great war has not changed the
lesson which we had already learned
when It began. II has but obscured
further demonstration 1t has caused
an enormous demand for some things
which the Tinted States is able to pro.
dnce In large quantities. and In these
lines of production. while other indus
tries still languisb. there have been ex
iensive employment of labor. great ex.
ports and a great influx of money
But this is temporary II must soon
cease. and when the factories have
stopped and their laborers are nc
longer employed we must deal with q
situation for which wise forethought
should make provision More impor
tani still, the war has paraiyzed the
peaceful industries Of all Europe and
has stopped that competitive foreign
production which In July. 1914. had al
ready entered American markets Il
supersede American products undel
the tariff law of 1918 The war hal
thus given to American products al
Immunity from competition far NOR,
effective than any possible protectiv,
tariff But that is temporary. ant
when the war is over. when foreign
production begins again, the American
market compared with impoverished
Europe will be more than ever befor,
the object of desire and effort. and W,
shall become the dumping ground o
the world to the destruction Of on
" industries unless that Is preventet
hy a wise and competent government
How canWe Defend ourselvss7
Rnt II Is not from domestic Ques
tons that the most difficult problems
OF this day arise. The events Of tn
lis, few years have taught Us man.
lessons. We have learned that civiliza
ton is but a veneer thinly covering tn
savage nature of man. How a thi
~,ation. which loves peace and intend
i.istice. avoid the curse of militnrisn
t4il INF the same time preserve Its In