Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-11-03
Why Utah Women
Will Vote for Hughes


crisis will necessitate the election of
a man familiar with every aspect of
American life-a man whose record
shows that he possesses clear vision,
judicial temper, sound judgment
and unhesitating decision. Such a
man is Charles Evans Hughes.
Taking the Democratic platform of
1912, our present administration shows
that nearly every professed convic-
ton on almost every important issue,
has been reversed. Some of those dis
regarded pledges and broken prom
Uses are as follows At the Baltimore
convention Wilson declared emphatic
ally for zone term for president"
Believing himself popular, we now
find him running for second term.
All his life until last year he was OPP
posed to protective tariff; but facing
a depleted treasury has convinced him
! that retention of the tariff on sugar
and dye stuff might help some; so he
now advocates this measure. He at
! first opposed election of United States
Senators by the direct vote of the
people, then became a strong advo-
cate of it. He claimed the training
of young men would be militarism and
now demands that four hundred thou
sand of them be keut in training, and
that our navy be second largest, if
not the largest, in the world. Even
year after the war broke out, he
opposed a material increase in our
standing army. Differences of opin-
ion in this matter brought about Gar
rison's resignation as secretary; he
favored the exemption from toll of
American ships engaged in coastwise
trade passing through the canal, then
without reason demanded congress to
pass law imposing the same charges
on American ships that was imposed
on foreign ships; he was once opposed
to woman suffrage. He declared Mex
leo had right to decide their troub-
les without INSTRUMENTATION inter-
ferred just sufficient to make our
course indefensible; he declared that
American property and American
citizens were entitled to and should
be given the full protection Of the
United States government; then when
our property was destroyed, our sold
iers killed, our flag insulted and our
women outraged, that protection was
denied. Mexico is PROSTATE and fam
inc stricken. We are still at war,
with problem greater than at the
beginning; and we shall still be forced
to deal in some decisive manner. Peace
never was promoted by being stronger
in words than in deeds.
We have met the European ques-
ton only in threat after threat, until
our Nations honor is lost--and "war
declared" preferable to dishonorable
peace, as the latter carries with it the
evils of both, and the advantages of
neither; while the former, as in the
case of Cleveland, Roosevelt, McKin-
ley and others, carried the conviction
back of the threat, that prevented the
shedding of blood and brought only
prestige and honor. Our national laws
are vain without efficient and impair
tial administration.
Whatever the price of settling these
difficulties, we still must face another
war, the industrial war that follows.
Our democratic prosperity has meant
nothing more than "human lives
measured in money"
When the demand created by war
has ceased, when our new customers
again become competitors, then, as
never before, will our country need
protection. The industrial plants of
England are still exporting their US
ual amount of goods, so per cent of
Frances industries are in operation
and Germany unframed is stronger
than ever before. Place our people
in direct competition with the people
of Europe, where printers receive
wage of rs cents per day, carpenters
rs cents, farmers 20 cents, mill hands
20 cents, miners 80 cents, etc., and
our standards of living would of ne
cessity have to be changed. With the
gold of the world now at our COM
mand, products of the cheap labor
would be rushed here and millions
burdened with debt and struggling
with poverty will flood our land and
the idle and unemployed will fill our
streets.
Here is an extract taken from a
Union Labor paper:
"One-third of New York's labor
laws, exceeding in quality all others
upon their statute books, We're signed
by Governor Hughes in three years
and nine months time He believes in
strict supervision of
business organization. A foreign pol
Icy that stands FIRMLY for Ameri-
can rights, a perpetuation owkw."
IAN rights, a preparation for trade
competition which protects all work.
Temperament prosperity based up
IN the develonmapt IF An,ar;oax,