Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-11
HUGHES CHARGES
AMERICANS ARE
NOT PROTECTED
Those Havins 90, Abroad for
CONNIE As, s,S Denied
n ,,sS,s" ed States
,es ernment.
ANSWERS DIR. ELIo
Reads Demo Platform About
Rights and Asks if it is
Sugar to Catch Flies.
QUOTES FROM WILSON TALK

Baltimore, Oct. 10.-Charles {
Hughes, speaking in the great armory
here where Woowrow Wilson first
was nominated for the presidency, to.
night assailed Mr.. Wilson's policy to.
ward the promotion of American
trade abroad, and replied to published
statements of DR.. Charles W, Eliot
president emeritus of Harvard, en-
dorsing the presidents policy.
"Dr. Eliot pierces the heart of the
matter" Mr.. Hughes said, "and he
finds that the record OF the admin
istration means this: No intervention
by force of arms to protect on for.
eign soil American commercial and
manufacturing Adventures who
through their own fr eewill have in.
vested their money and risked their
lives in foreign parts under alien jur-
isdiction." :"
The Import of 1t.
Think OF the import OF that, you
who represent the best genius of the
world and are thinking OF using it
abroad" Mr.. Hughes added. Think
OF that, you who it is suggested are
to be asked to finance the chief un-
dertakings OF the world. Think OF
that, merchants, statesmen, tellers,
clerks and dealers, who in serving
the world take your place remote
from your friends and safeguards in
communities where revolutions arc
frequent, and the only respect for
your flag and the power it symbolizes
may stand between you and ruin, and
even death"
Mr.. Hughes read the democratic
platform plank of 1912 declaring for
the protection of American rights
abroad, and asked if it were molasses
TO catch flies. He declared that the
protection it promised had been de-
liberately and deplorably refused. He
quoted from recent speech of the
president outlining the administra-
tons ideas with respect to the devel-
opment abroad of American enter
prise, and asserted that it was impos-
sible to square the fine words now
used with the actions" of the admins
Dollar diplomacy" Mr.. Huohes
said, which encouraged the develop
ment OF American interests abroad,
was dubbed something shockingly
Diplomacy Without Sense.
"In consequence | may say" the
nominee added, that in respect to
American interests abroad we have
had not only diplomacy without dol
lars, but diplomacy without sense,
During the past three years and
a half one would suppose that any
American who went to foreign lands
to advance American industry and
commerce, was presumably bad fel-
low who had lost his rights. Protect
him? Why, did not he go abroad
to make money? Did not he take his
American enterprise beyond our bor-
ders? What a shameless proceeding
Let him ste win his own Juice, or
let him come homel That is the sort
Of encouragement Americans have
had.
I'VE now hear fine words as to
our duties to the world. We are told
that we are to serve the world, that
we have the best genius in the world
but we have never thought OF using
that genius outside of our own mar
kets. 1t is said that we may have
provided machinery for branch banks
abroad.
But what avails such words when
we do not protect American lives
and American property abroad? The
adequate protection of American citi-
zens and their interests abroad ac
cording to their right under interna-
tional law, is the cornerstone of a
policy to promote American enter
prise throughout the world. This
protection has been deliberately and
deplorably refused by this administra-
ton"