The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-13
WORDS AND DEEDS

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In Chicago Mr.. Hughes declared
that IF anything in this campaign i.
real, it Is that we are now facing the
question whether we want words oil
whether we want deeds, says the
New York World. While Mr.. Hughes
was giving voice to this sentiment, tn,
telegraph wires were carrying the
news that through the leadership Of
President Wilson the Senate had pass
ed the Child Labor Bill and that the
House conferees would accept the Sen
ate Navy Bill.
If Mr.. Hughes is concerned about
deeds, we refer him to the record OF
the Wilson administration a record
Of achievement in progressive legisla.
bon for which there is no parallel.
We refer him to the Federal Re.
serve Banking Law. We refer him to
the Rural Credits Law. We refer him
to the Trade Commission Law. We
refer him to the repeal of the Panama
Canal Tolls Act that had repudiated
the solemn obligations of a treaty. We
refer him 20 the Clayton law, declar-
ing that labor shall no longer be treat.
ed as a commodity. We refer him to
the income tax. We refer him to the
Parcel-Post Law. We refer him to a
host of other measures which invoke
the power of Government for the pro-
lection of human rights. We refer
him to the great measures OF national
defense which Congress is carrying
through under Mr.. Wilson's leader
ship. And, not least. we refer him to
the fact that the American people
again have an Administration that is
not under the domination of Wall
Street and high finance
Mr.. Hughes was Governor of New
York longer than Mr.. Wilson has been
President of the United States. What
was done under his Administration
that compares in point of statesman
ship and public service with even the
least of these achievements under the
Wilson Administration?
Mr.. Hughes sneer about words and
deeds may have been directed at the
foreign policies o. President Wilson
rather than at the domestic policies.
Very well. President Wilson's words
have kept the United States out OF
war without the surrender of a single
American right Where would Mr..
lIughes's deeds" have placed us?
iiNiouldCS nus Ohty TWO Wedp0HS,
words and deeds. Words mean nego-
tiation, Deeds mean war. If Mr..
Hughes reproach of the President
has any significance except campaign
nagging. ii is that President Wilson
refused to plunge the country into war
before exhausting all the resources of
diplomacy, and that consequently we
are in the miserable and unfortunate
condition OF being at peace when
American boys might be dying by the
thousand every day in the trenches.
Is that what Mr., Hughes wants?
Every time MIR. Hughes speaks he
emphasizes the painful fact that he
has no legitimate issue and no con
struetiye policies of his own. His
whole campaign is directed not to
building himself up but TO tearing the
President down.
Before MIR. Hughes was nominated
The World Looked forward to his can
didacy in the belief that il would
mean an appeal to the reason and the
Intelligence of the American people.
In all kindness toward MIR. Hughes.
we must confess our disappointment.
There is no appeal TO public reason or
public Intelligence in MIR. Hughes
campaign addresses. No citizen is
wiser or better informed or more sane
ly advised in his public duties be.
cause of anything that Mr.. Hughes
has said since his nomination.
The Hughes speeches are only an
invocation to blind, bigoted partisan.
ship They are the commonplace pro.
duct of commonplace Republican
mind. and as such they are quite I'M
worthy of the Charles e, Hughes that
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