Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-03
WHY 1 AM FOR HUGHES.

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Raymond Robbins: The republican
party-though often dominated by
the masters of special privilege and
made by them the instrument of
vast exploitation-has rank and
file of men and women who have
proved their capacity to reject false
or dishonest leadership. Conceived
in moral revolt against human slav-
cry, it was born, baptized and nur-
tured in the supreme national strug-
gle to maintain the national hertz
age and fulfill the promise of equal
opportunity to every citizen. Is not
Its rank and file best calculated to
support a leadership that will Gre
ate a national mind and conscience,
and, having preserved the integrity
of the nation against the heresy of
secession, will it not develop and
maintain a progressive national pro-
gram of social and economic organ
ization?
hope so, think SO, and this is
one of the reasons why I am for
Charles E. Hughes.
We need industrial preparedness
with program of standardization
in our economic life. For the work.
ers, we need living wages, fair hours
of labor, workshop sanitation and
fire protection with accident, sick
ness, old age and unemployment in
surance Trade agreements and ar
bitration should take the place of in
dividual exploitation and industrial
civil war. For capital, We need the
Intelligent cooperation of govern
ment both at home and abroad.
When this war is over we will face
the most intense industrial COMPETE
ton that the world of commerce has
ever known. A comprehensive pro-
lection of the home market and sup
port for American foreign trade is
indispensable if we are to preserve
industrial prosperity. For both cap
ital and labor we should develop a
progressive policy in taxation that
will lift the fiscal burdens of govern
ment from labor and enterprise and
place them upon monopoly and priv
ilege.
| These things and these conditions
believe will be sped on their way
by the election of Charles e. Hughes.
Can these imperative national
needs be worked out by a states
rights democratic party that plans
state dominated militia with it's
menace of shiftless incompetence,
spoils politics and organized snob-
berry in a national defense force, at
time Of world peril? More and
more it becomes plain that most of
our pressing problems Of large i'm
port are national in scope and will
yield only to national action. Yet
we find the democratic party the
modern, and let us hope the last,
stronghold of the advocates Of local
sovereignty. This doctrine Of indi-
|vidualism, sectionalism and disunion
menaced and almost prevented the
freeing of the colonies from foreign
domination. This doctrine well
nigh defeated the adoption of uni
flying constitution wherein the
American nation became fact.
Wherever the fight for more effic-
lent and more humane government
has been waged, this baneful doc
trine of states rights has been in
voked to rally and shelter the anti
social forces, to arouse sectional
bias, local jealousy and all the mean,
narrow passions that hold mems eyes
upon the ground, when great human
needs call upon them, to look beyond
the rough and dusty road to tho far
country that is worth the toll and
sacrifice Of the long, hard journey.
believe in the character and
courage of the nominee Of the re-
publican party. He is the most con-
spicuous example, in our history of
the possibilities that American poll
tics may hold for success in able and
unselfish public service. For my
self, l gladly enlist with the great
majority of the progressives of the
nation under the leadership of
Charles Evaps Hughes.
HUNTOON AND HARDING.