East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-11-04
HUGHES AFRAID
OF DEAD MEN
SAYS AMERICANS CANNOT COM.
PETE WITH MILLIONS or
EUROPEAN COIsPSES.
Can These War Shattered Populations
Become SO Efficient That They
VIII Overwhelm U. s., Asks New
York World Editorial

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NEW YORK, Nov. AR. Hughes
fear Of dead men. The fear voiced
In republican scare advertisements
was ridiculed yesterday by the New
York World editorial bombardment
Of reasons as follows: Europe has al
ready Slaughtered four million. five
hundred thousand Of its strongest and
best men. Mr.. Hughes says that aft
| er the war American labor cannot
compete with these corpses.
Europe has chippled for life an
other four million five hundred thou.
sand of its strongest and best men.
MIR. Hughes says that after the war
American lyabor cannot compete
with these manned and blind and
helpless.
Before peace is declared it is prob
able that the total loss will aggre-
gate six million with six million mora
who are armless or legless or sightess
or otherwise physically incapacitated.
MI. Hughes says that when the war
ends the developed energies" of
these 100000 dead and manned
Will so stimulate European produc.
ton that "our nation will face a
competition such as it never knew.
The entire membership OF the
American Federation of Labor Is only
two million and Europe has already
| destroyed the lives Of two and a half
times that number Of producers The
entire Industrial population Of the
Y. :. at the last census was only TO-
685,SS1.
BY the time the war ends Europe
will have killed or permanently Grip
Piled more workers than are employ.
ed In all the indstries Of the United
States, Yet Mr.. Hughes pretends to
be terrified lest the remnants OF
these war shattered populations be-
come so efficient that they will over.
whelm American labor.
If we are to save our laboring men
from catastrophe, we must plan
tariff protection along sound. Just and
economic lines, he says. This is his
way of saying that we must 90 back
to Dingleyism and Aldrichism and all
the tariff extortion under which the
American 5people were robed for the
profit of few manufacturers.
Mr.. Hughes does not believe what
he says. He is talking for the pock-
cts OF the tariff monopollsts. who
gti1ff tho ranublfoor co,,,nota, o,f
fers every four years and without
those contributions the republican
party would not know how to con-
duct a campaign. He is talking for
men who want to charge the Ameri-
can consumer war prices after the re-
stOration of peace. He is talking for
the kind of men who produced the
economic conditions of Lawrence and
Patterson and Homestead and called
1t the American standard of living.
He is talking for the species of Amer
lean manufacturer who turns every
community upon which he fastens
himself into an industrial slum and
gets rich off the underpaid labor of
anu EH VI AHG
labor of immigrants. These are the
gentlemen for whom Mr.. Hughes is
speaking and 1t is highly significant
that in the closing days of the con-
test the republican campaign should
swing back to Hughes and the pro-
tective tariff"
The worst industrial conditions in
the country have always been found |
among the most highly protected in
dustries. the lowest wages are paid |
by the most highly protected indus !
tries. The highest wages are paid by 1
the low protected industries and by |
those that are not protected at all
Mr.. Hughes is the hope Of the tar |
lff extortionists in this campaign. |
They are all with him. He is their |
candidate for president They are
money to elect him. men |
who arc squeezing every dollar they
can out Of the American consumer
while the war lasts and are determln
ed to retain their power of extOrtion !
after peace is established. They |
count upon Mr.. Hughes for legislation !
that will enable them to standardize !
their war profits as peace profits
That Is the meaning of Hughes and |
the protective tariff Tt is in their |
sorbld interest that Mr. Hughes
warns the country that unless he is
elected American labor will be i'm.
roverished by Europe's cripples and |