The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-31
HUGHES talks
TARIFF AND MEN
Of ohio CHEER
sRepublican Candidate Says
BE Is Strong for Pro-
lection.
var MADE PROSPERITY
Tariff Commission Can Find
Facts but Congress
Makes Laws.
'NAR MADE PROSPERITY

cuSgton. Before audiences at East
!, liverpool, wellsville, Steubenville.
3 Mingo Junction, Dennison, GAINESVILLE
and here last night the nominee de-
xclared that America was not prepared
TO meet the commercial competition
q the energized Europe after the war
4 and that American industry would suf-
fer in thosb days II It were not pro.
fected.
Mr.. Hughes was received by au.
idiences which cheered and applaud.
ed. him frequently. At East Liverpool,
dfst stop OF the day, he spoke in the
open air, his voice combating the noise
of street traffic, before an audience
that could hear only part of what
he said. At Wellsville scores OF rail-
road employees In their overalls crowd
ed around the rear platform OF his car
and applauded him at vrious points In
his brief address. At Mingo Junction,
the whistles Of the big steel plants
and many locomotives in the yards
proclaimed his arrival and hundreds
OF workers clambored over the high
fence to hear him. They applauded
him frequently.
Many were turned away from Me.
mortal Hail. GAINESVILLE. where Mr..
Hughes spoke, and the hall was crowd.
ed with an audience that interrupted
him from time to time to cheer and
TO voice its own comments on what
he said.
In the East Liverpool speech Mr..
i Hughes touched upon statements in
: Mr.. wilson's Cincinnati address. He
{ declared that the $2.000,000,000 in.
Z S,psa nj fSr rta
ed almost exclusively" the demand
of Europe for American goods, Great
. ed by the war. The nominee also
cited recent statement attributed
to Chairman Hurley OF the Federal
Trade Commission, to uphold the con-
tention that America is not prepared
to meet the competition Of European
nations after the war.
Let me tell you this" he told the
crowd at Steubenville, "the iron and
steel manufacturing establishments of
Europe have scarcely been touched
by this war. On the contrary. the
= way itself has caused great increase
In the efficiency and productiveness Of
those establishments. Further than
Than that the raw materials used in
iron and steel manufacture have not
been touched by the war.
3 There they are; they have got the
$ raw materials; they have got their
manufacturing plants; they. have got
their men, and they are read yto pro.
sduce. When the war ends there is
!. going to be the most efficient produc.
ton IN this trade. not only here. but
throughout the world and not only
will American labor lose the opportu-
! mites that it now has created by the
war, but It will have to compete with
the lower paid labor of Europe.
1T Is no time for men to go through
the country saying America Is ready.
1t Is not ready. America has got its
Underwood bill and 1t has not in the
ranks Of our opponents any disposition
TO change It. They say we will give
you tariff commission. I believe in
: q tariff commission. We want the
facta but they talk about the tariff
( commission as though It were a legis-
1attye body, as though 1t had some au.
sthority to pass tariff bills. They know
avery well that they will sit in Congress
receiving reports Of the tariff com.
mission and giving such attention to
: the mas they may desire.
IF you want protection to American
Industry, you have got to have a ma.
2 jority in Congress that believes in
! protection to American industry, and
I cannot conceive OF people so alb.
sBolutely lost to common sense as to
suppose that in Ohio and a place like
3 Ehis, you would ever put a majority In
X power that believed in the principle
pfsthe Underwood hill"
In his GAINESVILLE speech Mr.. Hughes
declared that the number of men kill.
: I'D and permanently disabled in the
war was less than the average In.
eicrease Of the Industrial population as
(. young men become OF industrial age"
Wha tan extraordinary thing it is,"
he said, that thi scountry, through
which the protective principle has
3 built these great industries. should
Thing for moment Of an abandonment
sbf that priciple when all the other
{ great nations Of the world are adopt
ing It.
There are some people who seem to
think that II you are going to build q
+ houae you, can have windows and
doors and various things pertaining
i TO upper stories and get along without
any foundation at all. Now, am not
Interested in that kin dof architecture.
II yoQ are going to have a parlor In
which You can entertain your friends
,yhnd q dining room In which you can
Lit dow INTO a good square meal, and
IN bay window which will command a
beautiful outlook on the world, you
have got TO have foundation for your
{ house.
.And the foundation in American
ll8 1tfei isea chance to work; the founda.