Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-09

Detroit, Mich.S Aug. S--Before al,
immense crowd in Arcadia hall here
last night, Charles E. Hughes, the re-
publican nominee for the presidency
delivered an address that was fire.
quently interrupted with loud APP
plause. 1t was really the first speech
Of the campaign and in part, he said:
you have here the problem OF the
sudden introduction of large alien
population. You did not remain in
different. You set an example in
Americanization to all America; and
we point to Detroit as the one place
in this land where there has been
shown a quickening of interest in the
development and training and Ameri-
canizing of alien men and women who
have come to this land.
1T is perfectly idle to expect a
sound sentiment of American unity
if those who come among US as
strangers, come merely to be ex-
plotted.
"When we admit to this country
men and women we assume obliga-
tons with respect to their training, as
we'll as grant to them the privileges;
and we have got in this country to be
awake to those obligations, and to
realize that in every community there
must be a we'll organized effort to
make America supreme in the thought
of every one who comes into the COM
munity; to have the language under
stood and spoken; to have American
sentiment replace foreign sentiment;
to have American ideals replace for
eign ideals; to have a realization that
this is country not simply giving an
opportunity to work for dollars, but a
country that is devoted to the better
ment of human life; to the enlighten-
ment of the standards of human
thought; to the liberalization of all
those things connected with human
understanding and purpose; we want
America first in the mind and heart
of every one in this land. ....-
Home for the Average Man.
"But America is not simply land
for the man of special talent, or Of
distinguished aptitude. This is the
home of the average man, the ordi-
nary man who is doing his best, what
ever, by talent or aptitude; and in our
large industrial occupations where
thousands are gathered together in
one service, we want recognition of
human brotherhood in providing for
the welfare of those who make the
wealth of this great country.
I'VE want workingmehto be safes
guarded from every injury that can
be prevented. We want the health of
the workingmen looked after; every
means provided which conduces to the
proper standpoint Of living; every
means provided for proper recreation;
appropriate means for education, for
vocational trainings. In short, the
working man who is in his job and
expects to continue in that job ought
to feel that he is doing something
worth while for community that ap-
preciates it and gives him a fair
chance to lead happy and decent
life.
1--WE have got along in this country
altogether too easily with our wealth
of natural resources. Men have been
content, living apart in their separate
lives, to try to make something for
their Individual selves; but now we
have reached point where it is neces-
sary as it has been necessary abroad
to try to reduce all waste, to try to
prevent all unnecessary outlay and to
try to make business successful &C
cording to the merit OF we'll organ.
lied economically conducted business.
Efficiency in Government.
II want efficiency in the government
of the United States. If a manager
was to be appointed in an automobile
factory, would you appoint man that
never had seen an automobile?
III you want to run successfully a
large business enterprise in produce
tion would you appoint a man that
never had seen the works and did not
know anything about it simply be-
cause he voted the ticket that you
voter
my friends, the world that we are
about to live in in the next twenty
five years is going to be very DIFF
ferent world from what it has been.
Now, if you have a great admin
istrator appointed to position of ex-
traordinary power, how will you Judge
his efficiency in the conduct of the
enormous business interests with
which he is entrusted? Judge him by
his words?
Il judge him by his appointments.
81 want to state few things that
are not very pleasant things to state
to an American audience, but thi.
is time when we are facing facts.