New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-29

political bargaining in his remarks on
the Adamson law than he had made
before when he addressed about two
thousand enthusiastic Republicans in
the City Opera House at Watertown.
81 do not know what il portends," he
declared, "but do not believe you can
buy the labor vote in that way. When
We are talking about an eight-hour
workday bill we are talking about one
thing. When we are talking about this
bill we are talking about quite another,
and Il should stand on its own merits.
AND who pays the bill? Let us see,
now, who are these who are elected 10
pay? Well, the farmers have always
had. here and in the West, very clear
conception Of who was paying railroad
rates, and they have been very much
interested in transportation charges.
Decay Not Road to Peace
But let no one suppose" he said in
discussing the "he kept us out of war
slogan, that the path of peace is the
path OF national decay. You cannot
hope TO maintain your peace if you
present to the world the spectacle of
timid people that has forgotten the
courage and indomitable spirit Of the
founders and preservers of the nation;
q people that backs and backs and backs
and talks and talks and talks and never
stands There is no peace for the
United States with such a policy"
Referring to Mexico and President
Wilson's charge that vote for Hughes
is a vote for war, Mr.. Hughes declared:
81 am man firm for the maintenance
of American rights. | believe in un-
flinchingly insisting upon American
rights, but ! confess that where there
is an arrest of few sailors, who are
later discharged with an ample apol-
ogy, l fail to see any ground whatever
for rushing this country into war, least
of all that kind of a personal vindlc-
tive, unjustiRable war.
"My policy is a policy of peace, not a
policy Of war.
81 refer to these matters not for the
purpose of criticism. but for the pur-
pose of answering this wholly unwar-
rantable attack which does not meet
the issues which are presented, but at
tempts 70 defect attention from those
issues by reason of this cruel accusa-
tion.
Must Maintain Rights
"But let me say once more that il il
ever becomes true-it is not true, and
my experience in these months through
out the country demonstrates to me
that il is not true-but if il should
ever become true that we are not a
people willing 10 sacrifice; that our
rights are things only to be maintained
when nobody questions them; that we
have no true regard for the dignity of
our citizenship, however humble the
man may be, see the American nation
| doomed to decay.
And 1t is idle to talk of any pros
perity or of any future in the TWEEN
| ticth century where there will be ma
I tions enough who will arise and main
/ tain the rights of their own people"
Prospects after the war, he said
SHOULD awaken our alarm and appre-
. hension because of the hopes that are
being built upon foundation of sand.
Ability Not Enough
. at is no time to say America has
ability" continued Mr.. Hughes. 1T is
/ no time TO say America is alert. OF
| course America has ability. Of course
! America is alert; but We have got to
protect our industries and our agri-
! culture"
Mr.. Hughes pointed out that the Ad.
ministration, after denying that any
menacing conditions would exist, hac
/ gone TO work to provide "farcical, un-
workable provisions" to meet them. He
/ asked why no countervailing duties
were put in the "so-called anti-dumping
clause" and answered by saying that
| the Democrats did not believe in the
principle of the protective tariff.
Some time" said Mr.. Hughes, "the
American community, and particularly
those who are interested in agriculture
will awaken TO the necessity of bust
nesslike Administration, so that in the
expanding activities of government we
/ shall not be overwhelmed by the bur-
! den of taxation. There is no prosperity
/ for the United States if we go about
I our great international business in in
/ diferent and hanhaZard fashion"