Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-21

aries OF keep II III the hands OF WOOD
row Wilson.
The other" he declared, "is whether
this country Will by its votes sustain
the president for keeping the nation out
of war in Mexico and Europe"
National Policy Analysed.
Under the first division he briefly con-
sidered the tariff, the income tax, the
currency reform, the rural credits act,
the two antitrust laws, the shipping
law, the eight-hour law, the child labor
law, the promise of independence to the
Philippines and the thirty arbitration
treaties put into effect by himself, when
secretary of state, and the president.
Under the second issue he considered
the Mexican and European situations
and highly praised the president for
maintaining peace.
Calls Hughes an Arstocrat.
In the course Of his speech, Mr.. Bryan
said:
Why do Mr.. Hughes and President
Wilson differ so radically on public ques-
tions7 1t is because they view public
questions from opposite standpoints.
There is only one line that can be drawn
thru society, always and everywhere,
namely, the line that separates the man
who it at heart a Democrat and the
man VINO Is III UtstTI All
L do not use the name democrat in
partisan sense. The word is more than
1000 years older than the Democratic
party. 1t describes an attitude OF the
human heart. Nine tenths of those who
call themselves Republicans are at heart
Democrats and some who call themselves
Democrats are at heart aristocratic.
Would Legislate for People.
II
built from the bottom; the aristocrat
thinks society is suspended from the
top. The Democrat says: Legislate for
the people, for he believes that the pros
perity of the masses will find its way
up thru all the classes that rest upon
the masses
The aristocrat. believing that society
is suspended from the top, SAYS. and he
says it honestly, for he believes it: Leg
islate for the well-to-do and then be
patient until their prosperity leaks thru
on those below. This explains why Mr..
Hughes took the side of the railroads on
the 2-cent fare bill, why he vetoed the
bill giving the poor of New York the
Scent fare to Coney Island. why he
took the side of the big tax dodgers on
taken the side of the railroad managers
against the men who have asked for an
eight-hour day Gus
And it explains, also. why Mr.. Will
son has taken the peoples side on all
questions. VIII YOU vote to take the
government out of the hands of Mr.. VII.
son and his progressive supporters and
turn it over to Mr.. Hughes and his re-
dictionary friends :" .,.r r1r Il
In regard 70 the Mexican situation,
he said, in part: Hff II
r. Z,
dent with interfering with the politics
OF Mexico, he has never said a word
about the Republican ambassador who
permitted Huerta and Diaz to use the
American embassy TO form a conspiracy
TO overthrow government to which our
ambassador was accredited. u
we found in the papers of the em-
bassy a copy of the contract made in
the embassy, by which Mr. Huerta was
to be provisional president upon the
overthrow of the government, and then
Diaz was to have the privilege of run
ming for president.
Should Criticize Own Party.
IF Mr. Hughes is really in earnest in
not wanting to interfere in Mexican pol
itics, he should criticize the Republican
ambassador instead of the president.
'Rut the recognition of Huerta is no
longer an issue. Huerta is dead. Mr.
Hughes. even if elected. could not call
him hack and support him in the exer-
else of arbitrary authority. But inter-
ventiou is continuing menace and the
people are more interested in deciding
whether this government should inter-
vene in Mexico. To act intelligently on
this subject, We must know, first. what
intervention would mean and second,
the real force behind the demand for
intervention.
Intervention would mean a war with
Mexico, the end of which no one could
see, the cost of which no one could es-
innate. 1t would also mean the sowing
OF the seed of hatred in sister republic,
which would live for a hundred years,
and loss of the fruits of half a CEN
tury's efforts to establish confidence and
friendship between us and the republics
OF Central and South America. And who
asks for interventionr The real force
behind this demand is the capital in
vested in mines and ranches and other
development work in Mexico. Mr.. Hughes
will not dare to declare openly for inter
vention, but he uses language which the
advocates OF intervention construe to
support their demand. -
"The world is waiting for us to lead
the way from blood stained precedents
of the past out into larger and 6right-
er day, and il l know the heart of the
American people they are not willing
that this supreme opportunity passes by
unimProved. This, I believe, is tho
task that God in his wisdom has re-
served for the United States"