Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-03
ASSAILS WILSON
FOR FAILURE TO
CUT LIVING COST
Hughes Makes Tariff His
Theme and Cites Broken
Promises
NEGLIGIBLE ENDING CAMPAIGN TOUR
G. o. P. Nominee Has Spoken
in Thirty-Three States in
Four Trips

Hudson, n. Y, Nov. 8. - In his
speech here to-day Charles Z. Hughes
made the tariff his chief theme and
assailed the Democratic party for it's
failure to reduce the high cost of
living.
Il think they were just as eloquent
in promises four years ago as they
are to-day" Mr.. Hughes said. LAS l
look back to the statements that were
made at that time I cannot see how
any one could have said anything
more eloquently. more persuasively
than was said at that time with respect
to what was going to be done for
American labor and American bust
ness. You would have thought at that
time that the sun of promise had just
begun to shine upon a benighted world
and that they were going to have an
entirely new condition and that labor
would profit to the utmost and AM
erican business would get an extra
ordinary incentive.
They told us, for example, that
there was the high cost of living.
Well, we all knew that; we had very
intimate knowledge of that fact; but
what was still more to the point, they
told us that they were going to re-
in power they would show us how the
high cost of living was going to come
down. Well, through division in our
ranks, which | am glad to say, has
been happily healed, they had a
chance to show what they could do
with this high cost of living.
Reduced Chances of Earning
That robust companion, however,
has become more and more robust,
and seems to thrive on a Democratic
administration. And it is mounting
higher and higher and taller and
taller when we consider this promise
in relation to present promises, we
wonder whether they are going to do
any better with respect to the future
than they did in these recent years
with respect to this highly important
matter. While they did not reduce
the cost of living they were eminently
successful in reducing the chances of
making a living. They did not promise
that; they promised quite the con-
trary; they had a wonderful pro-
gram; they were going to reduce the
cost of living; they were going to pro-
vide for the expenses of the govern
ment through their tariff system; they
were going to increase the opportuni-
ties for business and they were going
to have American enterprise, as they
said, take on new size and speed
and have opportunities for American
labor multiplied.
Opportunities Vanished
We'll they put their principle in
force They had not had a chance to
do 1t for great many years. They
proceeded to do it with very extra
ordinary results. In the first place
they had a tariff for revenue only, but
1t was tariff that did not produce
revenue. We had great falling off
in revenue through a tariff for
revenue. while we had a great in
crease of imports and so in time of
peace which now they emphasize, for
getting the little wars we have had in
Mexico, they had to pass what is
called a war revenue bill to take care
of the deficit which was the result Of
their fiscal policy.
Then they said they were going to
have American enterprise take on
new size and speed and it did, a much
reduced size and much slower speed.
The opportunities of labor vanished
or were greatly reduced and we had
very extraordinary conditions in this
country"
Mr.. Hughes will end his travels
as presidential candidate to-day.
He left Albany at SIS o'clock
this morning for New York city.
spending the day campaigning down
the Hudson river valley. To-day's
journey was the wndup of four cam
paign trips which have carried him ap-
proxmately $4,000 miles through SO
States. He started August from
New York and spent virtually two and
one-half months on the road, not
counting the three brief periods of
rest that have punctuated his cam
paign. During his campaign he has
visited the chief cities of every north
ern and New England State except
Vermont, has been through the Mid
die West four times and has appeared
in every Western and Northwestern
State.