The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30

each Administration, would again be entrusted with the enormous power of regulating the entire business of the country?
 4. Would you repeal the Rural Credits Law, which for the first time has made proper credit as free to the American farmer as it has been to the business man and has put him on 8 business footing and given to our agriculture the stability to ensure its further development as the neces- sary basis of our domestic prosper ity?
 5. Would you repeal the Child Labor Law, which for the first time nationally protects helpless child hood and establishes some equality of working conditions between com peting manufacturers of different states and at the same time makes for efficiency and progress in our re- lations with our employees?
 6. Would you repeal the Federal Shipping Bill, which lays the founda- tion of a real Merchant Marine, of value to farmer and business man alike, and gives the nation ships which can be used in times of war as auxiliaries to our Navy, for lack of which the Navy is now seriously handicapped?
 '. Would you repeal the law pro- viding for an honest test of the eight hour day on railroads? The trans portation companies being convinced that strike was inevitable, as prov en by their Embargo on freight. would you have permitted the preci- pitation of that strike, with it's mill lions of daily losses to business and its burden pf human suffering. rather than favor the passage of the law en- acted?
 8. Would you intervene in Mexico, destroy the confidence of our Pan- American neighbors in the honesty of our intentions, and by making war on that republic justify a menac- ing hatred of American enterprises for generations to come?
 g. Finally, MT. Hughes, would you substitute the threat of the mailed fist, with the terrible proof of what it has brought to Europe. for the processes of diplomacy. which have kept for us peace with honor?
 The letter is signed by the follow ing:
 GEORGE F. JOHNSON, of Bing- N. r., President of the Endi- l
  in the world.
 CHARLES R. CRANE. former l President of the Crane Company, Chicago. 1 EDWARD A. FILENE, President of William Filene's Sons Company, drygoods, Boston.
 w. L. SAUNDERS, Chairman Board of Directors. Ingersoll- Rand Company and Director of the Ameri- san International Corporation.
 CHARLES H. INGERSOLL, of Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro.. watch manufacturers, New York.
 Calvin Tomkins. formerly Dock of New York.
 JESSE ISIDOR STRAUS, of R. H. Macy & Co.,, drygoods, New York.
 CHARLES H. JONES. President of the Commonwealth Shoe & Leather Company, Boston.
 JOHN H. FAHEY, Publisher wor- ,ester (Mass) Evening Post.
 ISIDOR JACOBS, President of the California Canneries Company, San Francisco. THOMAS H. NICE, President of the> Triangle Film Corporation, Los Angeles.
 WELDING RING. of Mailer & Quereau, drygoods, New York.
 HUMPHREY O'SULLIVAN, O. Sullivan Rubber Heels, Lowell, Mass
 W. A. JULIAN, President of the Julian-Kokenge Company. Shoes.  FREDERICK F. INGRAM, F. F. ingram Company, perfumes. De- roit. H. B. ENDICoTT, of Epdicott- Johnson Company, shoes, Bingham on, N. Y. ROLItA WELLS. former Mayor of 't. Louis. WILLIAM sALoMoN. banker, Jew York.
 JULIAN 8. CARR, banker, Dur lam, N. c. c. D. EALSELL, of the c. D. Hal ell Company, wholesale groceries. le Oklahoma City.
 H. L. DUNN, President of Nunn & Bush, shoe manufacturers, Mill yaukee. { B. F. NELSON, President B. F. tl Ielson Company, Minneapolis. J. s. CONSULAR AGENTS
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