The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-10-05
HUGHES WILL Be NO
BUSINESS ASSASSIN
Although the Day of the Political Sur
geon's Knife Has Passed, the De-
mocratic Lawmakers Are Still
Clam0ring for the Operating
Ward.

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of Mr.. Hughes is receiving the active
support of the business men of the
country. He has told them plainly
where he stands upon the business
issues of the day, and they are salts
fed with that stand Moreover, they
know that his statements now are not
made for campoign use only, to be
forgotten and laid aside when he en-
ters the White House. Behind Mr..
Hughes is record of fulfilling pied
ges and keeping the faith. From his
position now upon business questions
can be accurately Judged what will
be his policies at President, says the
Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Hughes touched the heart of
business when in one of his recent
speeches he declared that business
cannot live by surgery alone. There
are those who think that there is
nothing in political life but surgical
operations. These appeal to the pub
lie, for they have the dramatic touch.
But they are very dangerous to the
patient no matter how robust it may
be. There was time when some
surgery was necessary. With the
push and energy Of American life.
abuses came which needed correction
that the public interest should be su-
preme. In the wake of prosperity
there came dangerous policies. The
importance of individual initiative
and incentive must ever be appreciat-
ed and cherished. But how the day
of the surgeons knife is past. There
is a sense of obligation and spirit
for the future. There are few bust
ness men today who think that the
great object of life is to get little
citadel somewhere along the line of
commerce where the ordinary trave-
Ter may be stopped and compelled to
pay tribute. The American business
man today is sound. He is man of
vision, man whe demands an oppor-
tunity for American enterprise, for
Legitimate honest American enter
prise.
Democratic methods and policies
do not take into consideration this
state of affairs. That party is still
clamoring for the surgical ward as
the need of the hour. 1t does not ap-
preciate the great fact that a free
government cannot be run simply by
agitation; that it Is not possible to
have prosperity in the land if there
is nothing but discomfort and the re-
actions of unpleasant feeling on the
part of the people in community
who feel that they are engaged in
constant war. The Republican be-
lief is that it is possible in this coun-
try to do what is right, to insist upon
what is right, and to prevent abuses,
to check monopolistic practices and
determinations while at the same
time to hold fine sense of co-opera-
tion as -workingmen. And its
Ipolicies as to business are based upon
this belief.
Mr.. Hughes has declared that we
are now entering upon an era of
business in which the watchwords
Ishould be cooperation and efficiency,
and that neither of these amounts to
anything without the other. He be-
lieves that in our legislation we can
not afford to be sectional that we
must have common prosperity or
we shah have no prosperity, that we
must succeed altogether or we shall
not succeed at all. That is entirely
contrary to both the spirit and the
deed of the Democratic legislation for
the past four years.
The business problems of the day
and of the future must be solved by
men who know the needs of business
and men who are broad gauge in
Thought. Under the leadership of Mr..
Wilson this cannot be done. This
fact has received abundant proof dur
ing his administration. Under Mr..
Hughes and his leadership this is
the way they will be solved. And for
this reason the business men of the
country are giving their support to
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