Mohave County miner., 1916-09-16

and to put that difference into the tariff schedule, if needed, which l doubt, and provided that the manu- facturer agrees that the difference shall go into the pay envelope and not into dividends. What the Republicans used to fool, we shall use to cheer, the weary heart of labor.
 Who now wants to hear about the banking and currency system of this country? The honest business man no longer dreads a panic nor doubts that with good security his credit will re- main indefinitely unimpaired. Who longer denies that government should protect both person and property, and that each should contribute to that end? Who, then, would repeal the in come tax amendment, which was "too broad" to suit the Republican candi- date for president when advising the New York legislature? Who now thinks that it would be better to let the careless or semi-dishonest man run on until he has involved himself in the tolls of the criminal law rather than by advice, admonition and reproof from the federal trade commission keep him in the ways of fair and hon est business dealing? Who objects that in the exercise of it's peace-pre- pairing and war-making power, con gress has seen fit to provide for the erection of powder, armor-plate and nitrate plants rather than to trust this entire business to private patriotism :? Who would not have the government engage temporarily in shipping rather than have the country return to the old slavish customs of the sea? Who balks at good roads, rural credits, ag- ricultural education and federal aid for the betterment in every way of men and conditions?
 All these measures receive more or less support from members of the mi nority who did not have faith in the trustees and who would not guard or walk the squirrel track. These enact ments have had but one object-the common veal. A referendum upon them would poll a larger percentage of favorable Republican votes than they received in the halls of congress. A changed administration would not dare to repeal a single one of them.
 What then is the ground upon which the Republican party bases it's hopes of a return to power? Surely not upon anything which it says it would have done or will do. It carefully con- ceals from the voter any view upon the real issue of the campaign while it seeks by insinuation to provoke pre- judice against the president. The real issue of this campaign is that thought which goes with the father to his work or business, which engrosses every mother, wife and sweetheart, which sits down with them at every ireside and goes to bed with them in every home-and that thought is, "Can the president of the United States con tinue to so patiently manage our in ternational affairs as to maintain hon orable peace?
 And what is the attitude of Repub- licans toward this issue? In the halls of congress hear the president daily assaulted as a tyrant such as Ameri- can history has not hitherto recorded. From the stump I hear him proclaimed weak and vacillating man. One as- saults him because he did not go to war when Belgium was invaded, and another because the Lusitania was sunk, while a third condemns him as being pro-ally merely because he and the German emperor agreed upon the rules that govern neutral nations in time of war. Racial pride and church loyalty are given to understand that he has not considered them. It is hint ed that he should have done so, but his detractors have not the courage to say that the Republican party will de- eide between races or churches or which race or church it will prefer.
 Before we are beguiled by any of this, we have a right to demand cate gorical answers to these questions: Would the Republican party, if it had been in power, have declared war when Germany entered Belgium or when the Lusitania was submarined; or because the allies have violated the rights of neutral trade? Will the Republican party, if it comes into power, intervene in Mexico? Is there anything in the constitution which prevents the con gress of the United States from de- claring war without seeking the ad- vice of the president? What views did fba PanuhIicap oart,- in the con-