Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-06
ROOT TELLSN.-Y.
 TOSUpPORT HUGHES

(Continued from Page D of the world and our workmen will be in the streets
 The Underwood Tariff Law. If the country wants a tariff of revenue only they may put the mak- ing of it in the hands of the Demo cratic party. But can any sane man contemplate that party making a pro- tective tariff? In the first place they can't do it honestly. They don't be- lieve in it.
 If there ever was a clumsy. illcon- ceived, misiit law, it is the Underwood tariff law. It had failed when the war in Europe began. The war fur nished to American production the most absolute protection, so long as the war lasts our producers have prac- tically no competition for Europe [ does not make the goods to sell here.
 When the war is over that condi- ton will cease and we shall deserve what happens to us if we do not pro vide a tariff quite different from the Underwood tariff.
 The Railway Issue.
 ''There is another grave matter which should influence the selection of a new government. That is the power of the President and Congress to peremptorily demand of the railroad brotherhoods that they arbitrate.
 Universal opinion has been that such questions ought to be settled by arbitration. Labor has been in favor of that. The broad minded employees have been for that
 If railroad rates have been justly fixed by the interstate commerce com mission, upon enormous increase of pay to their employees the rates must be increased and the whole public must pay more.
 Question of compuIsion.
 There is a broader question than the payment of higher railroad rates. There is the question of the con- potency of government and the spirit of a self-governing people. If the gov ernment of this democracy is to sub init to compulsion by an organized minority and the people are to approve that by their votes other minorities will profit by the example.
 The weakness of the Democratic party is that it is natural only in form and profession. It has the partisan rights and is jealous of the power of the national government It denied the right of the nation to make civil appointments, to establish a. national bank, to restrict slavery, to prevent the secession of states, to issue green backs, to maintain a protective tariff.
 Inadequate Defense.
 When the Democratic Congress killed Secretary Garrison's plan for national force to supplement the regu- lar army and substituted the absurdly inadequate provision for bringing in hesnational guard of the states to which. the party clung it put the na- tlonal defense in the hands of the gov ernors of the states
 Tt was because the spirit of Amer lean nationality was not in the Presi- dent or in his secretary of state that the brave words of the message to Germany before the Lusitania was sunk failed to bite into the conscious ness of the German government and prevent the outrages. That is the real reason why arrogant demands of the railroad brotherhoods upon the government of the United States un- der threat of injury were not resented and repelled
 With cheerful hope. recognize as the true inheriter and interpreter of that ancient spirit which has made America what she is, the strong, true gentleman who is to make the twenty ninth president of the United States Charles Evans Hughes"