South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-31
Explanation viii
Be Big Task For
G. OPP. Candidate
fBy sayoyardl

DTleI as cOunS i TOT the TepuD-
lican party Adler advocates that
Mr.. Hughes have endeavored to
apologize for Aldrichism and dis
astrously failed. Elihu Root, and
Mr.. Hughes agrees with Col. ROose-
Welt that Mr.. Root is the greatest
living statesman-Mr. Root very
happily diagnosed the criminal
malady that has outlawed the G.
.. z. from the precincts Of patrio-
tic society as invisible govern
ment." No man of his day is better
htted TO discuss that fatal distem-
per than Mr.. Root, and of it he
might well say. "All of which l saw
and much OF which l was"
II is doubtful If Mr.. Hughes can
compose a finer piece on invisible
government than that Mr.. Root de
livered himself Of in the late un-
lamented constitutional convention
of the empire state OF New York.
The task Mr. Hughes has set him
self TO discharge is to persuade the
public II at invisible government is
a mighty god thing, for when you
separate invisible government from
the republican party there is
nothing left of it--not a shred.
Here are some Of the fruits of
invisible government. and we recall
what beautiful crops Of them were
produced when the G.. O. Z. was
chief husbandman Of our glorious
union. One of those fruits was the
watered stock of mOnopOlistic cor
pOratiOns. Another was interlock-
ing directories of monopolistic cor
poratiOns. BY the first of these the
people were robbed 10 pay divid-
ends on capital represented by pa
per certificates that in morals were
on the footing of forged bank |
checks or counterfeit bank notes. |
f;y the other men traded with them |
selves and the profits of the bar
gains were paid by the people and
those limited only by the good of !
the traders.
Those are samples of the pestil- |
ence that walked in darkness and |
wasted at MONDAY when the @. .. |
r administrated our government |
for the benefit of Wall st. That it |
was which created the late lament /
ed Bul, Moose party. And fearless !
~ and confidently hazard this pre- !
diction. that the next reform party /
that appears in American politics /
will not choose its chief of staff |
from among the magnates of Wall /
st. Had not the boss of the Har-
vester Trust held high comand in I
the Bull Moose party that organiza-
ton had not died" The Bull Moose
party is dead because Wall st. con-
demned it TO death.
When Woodrow Wilson became |
president of the United States he /
smote invisible government hip and /
thigh. He emancipated the people |
from the slavery imposed on them /
for the benefit of Wall st. If he
had done nothing else, the bank
ing law passed by congress at his |
suggestion would entitle him to the /
everlasting gratitude Of all the COM
mon people. Therefore all the |
cash of the country was at the /
command CT the gamblers and |
manipulators of Wall st. The cur
rency was rigid and a periodic |
panic inevitable. In time of stress
it was impossible TO borrow on the
best security and we had the spec
tac!e OF a visit 10 the president OF
the United States by those Wall /
st. magnates in the fall of 1907, who
held the chief magistrate up and
forced him to suspend the law and
grant indulgence TO the steel trust
TO absorb its most dangerous rival.
the Tennessee Coal * Iron Co, else
Wall st. would allow the panic then
on hands to take its own course.
All the plutocrate of Wall ST.
could not turn that trick since the
creation of the present banking
system which puts the money Of
the people in the bank at the dis
small as we'll as great. bet you
that in his BRIEF Charles r.
Hughes does not dwell on this
phase of the political question.
What are they going TO do for an
issue The country is so enormo usly
pro- porous under the democratic
tariff that they dare not insist on
protection as the paramount The
Underwood tariff gives the manu-
facturer free raw materials and
taxed raw materials is the founda-
ton stone of a protective tariff
in the United states, though Ger
many. another pronounced protec-
zionist. put raw materials on the
free list, and that fact accounts
more than anything else for the
marvellous strides Germany made
in the walk of trade the double de-
cade before the breaking out of the
deplorable European war.
Take wool. Our import OF that
staple under the democratic tariff
increased $50 per cent; but our ex-
oerts Of wooden goods increased SIS
per cent, and Notwithstanding free
wool in the Underwood tariff. the
vrice Of domestic wool is greater
than il ever was under any one OF
he four tariffs Nelson W Aldrich
made for the American people
Possibly Mr. Hughes will dwell on
The Mexican situation. Ve-y well
Let hin do so. He Will never get a
paramount out OF that Certainly he
viii have something 20 say about
the European war. If so. let US hope
that he will tell Us what Wilson did