Evening journal., 1916-09-01
Fairbanks HEARS
OF HIS NOMINATION
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not today hold a commission from the
majority. When invested with power
II Immediately set 10 work 10 force
down the throats of the majority poll
cles to which they were and ever
since have been opposed. Democracy
stands. as 1t has stubbornly stood for
many years, for a free trade or reve
nue. tariff; while the Republican party
stands, as It has always Loyalty stood,
for the great doctrine of American
protection. Our future industrial
prosperity depends upon our choice
bclween the two in the pending can
ltign."
here the candidate devoted much
line to an attack upon the present
Administrations course upon the tar
in question Even before the Pvesi-
dent signed the present law, he con-
tended, business began to furl Its
sails" and he argued that foreign
nations were filled with Joy and the
working man felt "its blighting eff
/ fects." He declared that the Under
wood act also failed as a revenue
I producer and that hope was fast
dying out when all Christendom was
shocked by the European war; To
this war he gave the credit for the
prosperity the nation has been en-
joying.
Next he urged the upbuilding Of
! the nations merchant marine, but said
the Republican party was opposed to
government-owned or a government
operated merchants marine. Such a
merchant marine is violative of sound
governmental policy" he declared; 1T
will prove expensive and serve to
| check individual enterprise from en-
tering one of the most important
fields of our national development.
With favoring laws sufficient private
capital would be invested to enable
us to construct in American shipyards
and with American labor all the mer.
chant vessels required to give us our
rightful place in the Ocean-carrying
| rade of the world.
] Wants Good Name for America
For nearly four years we have
walked in darkness and doubt" he
went on; I'VE have endured stress
and strain in our domestic affairs and
have felt the humiliation OF lost pres
tige in the chancellOries Of the world.
We covet nothing more earnestly than
the good name of America, and any
political party which furnishes it
through ignorance or design forfeits
the popular confidence. We believe
unqualifiedly in the maintenance Of
a firm foreign policy. doing justice
to others and demanding like justice
for ourselves. This is the surest
method OF regaining the worlds es-
TEEN, and insuring the prevalence OF
honorable peace with our interna-
tional neighbors.
Our opponents pride themselves
upon the assumed fact that their can
didate for the Presidency has kept
the country out of war Their asser-
ton is too broad; II comprehends
more than the truth. We have not
been kept out Of war. for there has
been real war in Mexico. due to our
own aggression. It does not rebound
to our credit. II is not a very difficult
task for any President to keep out
of war if nobody wants to fight us, and
when our people thoroughly believe
that an enlightened. firm diplomatic
policy will meet successfully all o.
our international necessities.
We regard the dealings of the
, President with Mexico as vacillating
We have seen things go from bad tc
worse; we have seen the butchery oi
our countrymen upon both sides OF
the border; we have seen millions OF
dollars worth OF property destroyed
II was our manifest duty to have rec
ognized Huerta as the President
either de facto or de iure; he was
clearly in power under the forms OF
Mexican law and was entitled to rec
ognition by diplomatic precedent But
our Chief Executive turned against
him, gave aid and announcement tc
his enemies and in time effected his
overthrow. The interposition OF
, President Wilson in the domestic af.
fairs of Mexio was unwarranted in
sound international policy and has
proven disastrous in point of fact"
sympathy for Hyphenates.
The terrible struggle" he said, re
ferring to the European war "rathel
= than moderate the spirit OF national
ism throughout the world, and in thu
b future, as never before, It will be ne
cessary for us to maintain a STANDARD
of Americanism, free from division b,
sectionalism. class prejudice or aliei
sympathy. There never was tim,
when it was more important for us, Al
Americans. to avoid creating lines o
cleavage in this country based upol
place of birth or occupational status
.. We cannot properly censure Ameri
cans OF foreign birth for sympath.
with the nations which once claimeI
their allegiance, as against the ma
! tions with which they are fighting
and the attempt TO impute treasonabl'
, motives to any one class of our citi
zens because Of their original ma
, tionality or the sy7npathies which g
with it, so long as these do not inter