The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-20
Would Have Appealed To People
When Railroad Strike Threat
ened and Would Have Made
Public Opinion Arbitration
UNDERWOOD TARIFF is
INSUFFICIENT FOR FARMERS
Candidate Meeting Huge Crowds
As He Tours Farming States
and Is Hitting Straight From
the Shoulder In His Talks
ASSOCIATED Pres. by Federal wireless,

(Associated Press by Federal Wirelesa,b ~
CIOUX CITY, Iowa, October
~ lS.-The passage OF the
Adamson Law at the demands oil
, the leaders of the great railroad
brOtherhoods was a surrender to
| force Of the government which
can never be repaired, declared
{ harles Evans Hughes, Repub-
lican candidate for the presidency.
in an imprisoned address deliy-
cred here last night, 70, an, enor-
nous crowd
Checred as he made point alter
point. the speaker warmed 10 his
work, his voice growing stronger
and more resonant as he proceed
ed, and he struck straight4nfrom
the shoulder at the things he be-
lirves have been abuses in the
Wilson administration. 2uss ,lr}
Tariff Bill Failure '.8'- fa&r
Earlier in the day the Under
wood tariff law had been the tar
get of his hottest attacks, and he
had told the farmers OF Mitchell,
South Dakota, that the measure
Of which the Democrats Ind pranrised
so much, had failed utterly and had fail.
ed particularly in assisting the farmers
Of the nation to meet the, constantly in.
creasing cost of existence.
cit has proved utterly inadequate
to the demands of, the agricultural
communities of this nation, " he said.
To the crowd here he turned to an,
other page and spoke Of the railroad
situation leading up to the passage of
the Adarnson Act. He told his hearers
that the President should have declined
to be bluffed by the hsads Of the
brotherhoods, aud should have gone
straight forward in making arrange
mcnts for the proper arbitration Of
the whole question. &,''.. II
What would you have done TO stop
the strife" yelled q heckler among
the crowd in the body of the hall. i
Replies To Heckler 4
The passage of the Adamson Bill
was surrender to force,' answered
MIR. Hughes, land US such utterly IN
compatible with the history Of the
American government. This Is the
country one president of which once
said, Millions Cor defense but not one
cent for tribute, and this country
pitched into and beat out of existence
an age long evil Oh the strength of
those words.
Mr.. Wilson however, secs things
differently. He listened TO the bluff Of
the railroad men and submitted TO it's
implied threat. You ask me what /
should have done in his place.
81 would have insisted upon arbi.
tration. Had that been refused ]
would have gone to the people of the
country and told them the full facts in
the case. I would have laid before
them all the information had, and
would have placed the responsibility
for the refusal to meet the arbitrators
just where it belonged. y. 81
Would Have Forced Issue II. u
"At the same time / would hav"
continued my work of getting together
a commission Of arbitration so strong
in the minds of the whole people, a.
fair and so distinguished, that their
very names would have compelled at.
teption and respect of the entire, eeun.
try I would have given to them the
right to settle the matter as they be.
lieVed right, and just and proper.
That is what 1 would have done in
the ease that confronted Mr.. Wilson,,
and I believe that no man or group of
men in the nation would feel himself
or themselves strong enough to fout
such commission, or to have dared to
hold up the commerce of the United
States if that had been DONE