Arizona republican., 1916-10-06
TWENTY SIX PRESIDENTS KEPT US OUT OF WAR"
THERE WAS NEVER \ TIME
 WIEN THAT TASK WAS EASIER
 SAID EL|HU ROOT LAST N|CH7

practically no competition for Europe does not make the goods to sell here.
 When the war is over that condi- tion will cease and we shall deserve what happens to us if We do not pro- vide a tariff quite different from the Underwood tariff.
 "Thcre is another grave matter which should influence the selection of a new government. That is the surrender of the president and con gress to the peremptory demand of tEe four railroad brotherhoods for the increase of their wages by a law passed under threats.
 universal opinion has been that such questions ought to be settled by arbitration. Labor has been in favor of that The most intelligent and hroadmindcd employers have been for that.
 If railroad rates have been justly fixed by the interstate commerce com mission. upon enormous increases of pay tc their employees the rates must ue increased and the whole public must ray more.
 There is a broader question than the payment of higher railroad rates. There is the question of the compe tencv of government and the spirit of self governing people. If the government of this democracy is to submit to compulsion by an organized minority and the people arc to ap- prove that by their votes other minor ities will profit by the example.
 'The weakness of the democratic party is that it is national only in form and profession.
 Tt has been the party of states rights and jealous of the power of the national government, It denied the right of the nation to make pro visions to establish a national bank to restrict slavery, to prevent the se- cess.on of states. to issue greenbacks, 10 maintain a protective tariff.
 When the demOcratic congress re- jected Secretary GarTisOn's plan for national citizen force 10 supplement the regular army and substituted the absurdity inadequate provisions for bringing in the national guard of the states it was because the party clung to the privilege of appointment, of the officers by governors of the states That would have been impossible if the democratic party had been in spired by nationality and had thought first of the nation in arms. It was because the spirit of Amer ! ican nationality was not in the presi- i dent or his secretary of state or a | democratic congress that the brave words of the message to Germany be | fore the Lusitania was sunk failed Co i bite into the consciousness of the Ger man government and prev ent the out rage. That is the real reason why 1 th4 arrogant demands of the railroad l trothorhoods upon the government of
 the United States under threat of in- 1 iurv was not resented or reDellad
 With cheerful hope. I recognize ns the true inheritor and interpreter o' 1 that ancient spirit which has made 1 America what she is. the strong. true and tried gentleman whom We are
 about to make the twenty-niHth presi-
 dent of the United States-Charles Evans Hughes.
 Mir. Root with former United States
 Senator Chauncy M. Depew, was greeted by an audience in whicf there were many women. He bega
 his address by saying that the peo-
 pie oc the United States have som' serious business to be done by theil government in the next four years Shall we engage MT. Wilson, MT Bryan MT. McAdoo. MT Daniels an'
 the rest of the democratic adminstra
 tiOn and a democratic congress {;
 manage our affairs for the next fou1
 years" he asked.
 Mr. Root read tis speech from man , uscrift. Mir. Depew followed him anC i characterized President Wilson
 speech at Shadow Lawn. N. J.. las Saturday as "admirablv phrased ant l adroitly and captivatingly put" but h. 3 added that "PcneralzatiOns never vii } bear the acid test of facts.'