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The Washington times., 1916-06-09
MAILING MUNITIONS VERSUS
SAVING SOULS

A Connecticut Congregational
pastor, a graduate of Yale Univer-
sity, Yale Divinity School, and the
Hartford Theological Seminary, has
resigned to accept a place in a mu-
nitions factory because he could not
make enough in the ministry Che got
5000 year, to support his family
Of six. In other words, it is more
profitable to be the medium for de-
stroying life than for saving souls.
This man is young, his training would
seem to have been ample to have fit
ted him for the ministry, and the re-
suits which he had accomplished in
church work seem to have been al
together to his credit. But there
wasn't even living in 1t, Was the
matter altogether with the man, or
is there something wrong with the
modern church? Are creeds being
outgrown and their presentation no
longer interesting? Are the ologies
and the isms no longer appealing to
men and women? What is the mat
ter?
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Tariff

The Republican party stands now. 90
always. In the fullest sense for the
policy OF tarin protection to American
industries and American labor and does
not regard an antidumping provision as
an adequate substitute. Such protection
should be reasonable in amount. but
sufficient to protect adequately Ameri-
can industry and American labor and
be so adjusted as TO prevent undue ex-
actions by monopolies or trusts. It
should, moreover, give special attention
TO securing the industrial independence
stuffs.
Through wise tariff and Industrial
organized that they will become not
only a commercial bulwark but a pow
erful aid to national defense.
The Underwood tariff act 10 a COM
Pete sa failure II every respect Under
ously Increased In spite of the fact
that the intercourse with foreign coun-
tries has been largely cut off by rea-
son OF the war. while the revenues OF
which we stand in such dire need have
NAL conditions which prevailed prior TO
the war II was clearly demonstrated
that this deprived the American pro-
Queer and the American wags-earner OF
that protection which entitled them. TO
meet their foreign competitors. and but
for the adventurous conditions created
by the war. would long since have par
aiyzed all forms Of American industry
and deprived American labor of ITS
We favor the creation Of a tariff
commission with complete power to
gather and compile information for the
use Of Congress In all matters relating
to the tariff.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Philippines

We renew our allegiance to the Phil
lipine policy inaugurated by Mckinley.
approved by Congress, and consistently
carried out by Roosevelt and Taft.
Even In this short time II has enorm-
ously improved the material and social
Philippine people constantly increas-
ing participation In their government,
and. IL persisted In, will bring still
greater benefits In the future:
We accepted the responsibility OF the
islands as a duty TO civilization and the
Filipino people. To leave with our
task half done would break our pledges,
injure our prestige among nations,
and imperil what has already been ac-
complished.
istration for its attempt to abandon
only by the vigorous opposition or Re-
publican members OF Congress. aided
by a few patriotic Democrats.
We reiterate our unequaled approval
OF the action taken in December. 1911,
bya the President and Congress to Sc
tries, a treaty that will recognize the
absolute right of expatriation and pre-
vent all discrimination OF whatever
kind between American citizens,
whether native born or alien. and re-
gardless OF race, religion, or previous
pledge to observe this principle and to
maintain the right or asylum which is
neither to be surrendered nor re-
stricted, and we unite in the cherished
hope that the war which Is now DESC
lating the world may speedily end
OF brotherhood among the nations OF
| the earth and the assurance OF full
| equal rights, civil and religious. to all
men in every land.
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Justice for All

A nation to survive must stand for
the principles OF social and industrial
justice. We have no right to expect
continued loyalty from an oppressed
class.
We must remove the artificial
causes OF the high cost of living;
prevent the exploitation of men, wom-
en-, and children In industry by ex-
tension of the workmen's compensa-
ton law to the full. limit permitted
under the Constitution and by a thor
oughgoing child labor law: protect
the wage-earner, and by a properly
regulated system OF rural credits en-
courage the farmer to give to the
landless man opportunity to acquire
land. A country must be worth living
in to be worth fighting for.
To make possible social Justice, to
maintain our position in peace and
war, we must insure business and in
dustrial prosperity This can be done:
BY a. regulation of industry aimed
at promoting its growth and prosper
fly and a just distribution of it's re-
turns and healthy expansion OF
foreign trade;
BY a conservation and development
OF our national resources for the good
Of all;
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Foreign Relations

We desire peace. the peace of justice
and right and believe In maintaining
n straight and honest neutrality be-
tween the belllgerents In the great war
In Europe. We must perform all our
duties and insist upon all our rights as
neutrals without fear and without ia
vor. We believe that peace and neu-
traiity as well as the dignity and in
fluence Of the United States cannot be
preserved by shifty expedients. by
phrase making. by performances in
language. or by attitudes ever changing
in an effort TO secure groups of voters.
The present Administration has de-
stroyed our influence abroad and hu-
inflated us In our own eyes. The Re
publican party believes that a firm
consistent and courageous foreign policy,
always maintained by Republican Presi-
dents In accordance with American ira
ditions, IL the best. as IL is the only
true way, to preserve our peace and re-
store us to our rightful place among
the nations. We believe In the pacific
settlement OF international Disputes
and favor the establishment OF a world
court for that purpose.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Business

The Republican party has long be-
lieved in the rigid supervision and strict
regulation Of the transportation and
great corporations OF the country. II
has put its creed into It's deeds. and all
really effective laws regulating the rail-
roads and the great industrial corpora
lions are the work of Republican Con-
crosses and Presidents. For this policy
of regulation and supervision the Den-
ocrats. in a stumbling and piecemeal
way. are undertaking to involve the
Government In business which should
be left within the sphere of private en-
terprise and In direct competition with
it's own citizens. A policy which ~ sure
70 result In waste, great expense to the
taxpayer and In an Inferior product.
The Republican party firmly believes
that all who violate the laws In res,iln-
ton OF business should be individ U all 7
punished. But prosecution Is very dif-
ferent from, persecution, and business
success. no natter how honestly at
tained. Is apparently regarded by tie
Democratic party as In itself a crime.
Such doctrines and beliefs choke enter
prise and stihe prosperity The Repuh-
lican party believes In encouraging
business and will seek to advance all
American Interests.
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Permanent Peace

We earnestly desire TO keep the peace.
but there are higher things which we
must keep II We would keep the faith
as Washington and Lincoln kept It.
Peace at the price Of submission and
cowardice Is not desirable. nor is II the
peace OF justice. which alone would
make II permanent, Supine submission
to the invasion of our rights or in
difference to the wrongs of weaker ma
tions will not long maintain peace. nor
will mere threat Of act on enforce our
rights under international law.
There must be AN unfaltering de-
termination and a personal ability to de-
fend our rights and to fulfll our In
ternational obligations. In such a readi-
ness lies the sure safeguard Of both ma
tional honor and continued peace.
Failure - deal firmly and promptly
with the menace OF Mexican disorders
has brought conditions worse than war.
fare, and has weakened our national
self-respeSt.
Every resource of government should
forthwith be used to end those condi-
tons, and protect from outrage the
lives. honor, and property of American
men and women in Mexico.
Whatever our country can legitimately
do TO attain peace for war-stricken
Europe. and to aid In the procurement
of equal rights without discrimination
because of race or creed to all men In
all lands. should be done.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Merchant Marine

In view OF the policies adopted by all
the maritime nations to encourage their
shipping interests. and in order to en-
able us to compete with them for the
ocean-carrying trade. we favor the pay
ment to ships engaged in the foreign
trade OF liberal compensation for serv-
ices actually rendered In carrying the
mails, and such further legislation as
will build up an adequate American
merchant marine. and give us ships
which may be reauisitioned by the Gov
eminent In time of national emergency.
We are utterly opposed to the Govern
ment ownership Of vessels as proposed
by the Democratic party. because Gov
eminent ownership, while effectively
preventing the development OF the
American merchant marine by private
capital. will be entirely unable to pro-
vide for the vast volume of American
freights and will leave us more helpless
than ever in the hard grip Of foreign
syndicates,
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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

The Republican platform, clear in
thought and precise in language,
trims on no issue which it takes up
and evades none which is before the
nation and the world.
The man who favors trucking to
foreign powers receives fiat notice
that he must not expect any such
policy from the Republican party.
Whether it be Mexico or Germany,
the Republican party, if in control of
the United States Government, will
act, with deed not word, to uphold
the rights of Americans and to en-
force the law of nations.
The man who is opposed to the
ar1rhng Of the nation on land and on
sea to protect it's citizens and assure
its safety is warned not to give his
vote to the Republican party, for it
means to arm the country as 1t must
be armed to defend itself.
The man who wants to buy in this
country cheap labor products at the
cost of the existence of American in
dustries and the bread and butter Of
American wage-earners is admon-
ished that he will get no such chance
from the Republican party.
The man who would cripple Amer
lean railroads, deny private enter
prise the opportunity to build and
maintain a merchant marine, scuttle
the Philippines, and prostitute the
civil service Is straightforwardly in
formed that his place at the polls on
election day is not with Republican
voters.
On all questions, as will be shown
in detail later, the Republican plat
form speaks plain English to the
American people, breathing sincerity
and carrying conviction, so that no
voter may have any doubt as to what
the Republican party promises to
give him and what, if it is intrusted
with the conduct of the Government,
he will get.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Mexico

We deeply sympathize with the 15.-
900, 900 people OF Mexico. who for three
years have seen their country devas-
tated. their homes destroyed, their
fellow-cltizens murdered and their
women outraged by armed bands Of
desperadoes led by self-secking. con-
seienceless agttators, who when tempo
rarily successful IN any locality have
neither sought nor been able to restore
order or establish ana maintain peace.
We express our horror and indigna-
ton at the outrages which have been
and are being pcrpetrated by these
bandits upon American men and women,
who were or are In Mexico by invita-
ton Of the laws and Of the government
of that country. and whose rights to
|, security Of person and property are
guaranteed bv solemn treaty obliga-
lions We denounce the indefensible
methods OF interference employed by
tits Administration, in the internal
nnairs OF Mexico. and refer with
shame to It's failure to discharge the
duty OF this country as next friend to
Mexico. Its duty to other powers,
who have relied upon us ms such friend.
and Its duty to our citizens In Mexico,
in permitting the continuance OF such
conditions. FIRST nv failure to act
promptly and firmly. and. second, by
lending Its influence to the continual
ton OF such conditions through recog-
milton of one OF the factions RESPONSE
bic for these outrages.
and maintaining peace in Mexico. We
promise to our citizens on and near
our border. and to those in Mexico.
wherever they may be found. adequate
and absolute protection in their lives,
liberty and property.
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lions the children OF any fail to find
our common destiny worthy OF common
devotion and defense we shall sustain
irreparable loss OF national character.
In this spirit OF Americanism.- action
must be taken for the common defense.
We must be ready. In spirit. arms. and
industry. Preparation In arms re-
quires:
A navy restored to at least second
rank in battle efficiency.
A regular army Of zoD,OOO men, ruby
armed and trained. as a rrst line or
land defense.
A system of military training ade-
quate to organize with promptness,
behind that first line of the army and
navy. citizen soldiery. supplied,
armed. and controlled by the Nation
al Government.
In our democracy every male citi-
zen is charged with the duty of de-
Tending his country. This duty 10
not new. 1t has existed from the
foundation of the Government.
Under modern conditions. II cannot
be performed without military train
ing: service without training means
slaughter and disaster.
AS the nation has always recognized
and exercised the right to enforce
compulsory military service IN time
of war. so should there be universal
military training for that service
during times of peace.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
EN0LAND'S PLANS

The Philadelphia Ledger prints
the essentials Of letter received in
that city from distinguished mem
Der of the English Parliament. The
4,000-word recital of conditions as
the M. p. sees them is marked "cen-
sored" although not a single word
has been erased. Among the other
news items Of the letter are tho fol-
lowing:
England has IAN army of over
100000 in being" The men are
fully equipped and ready
stokes" and much. the best yet
produced, has been Invented In Eng
land. 1t throws shell only $50
yards, but 1t Is highly destruc-
tive.
The British navy recently cele-
brated the destruction or capture
OF the Tooth German submarine.
The Allies on the West are pre-
pairing for a grand offensive
| movement which cannot start pn-
til the Russians begin a similar
Hospitals all over Southern Eng
land have been emptied of their
| soldier patients and others to make
room for the expected stream of
wounded which will pour back
from this Allied assault upon the
German Western front.
This letter was written in the lat,
ter part Of May, before the presen,
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FAREWELL TO THE KING OF
THE OARS

A week from tomorrow the slim
oars Of a Cornell crew will dip into
the waters of the Hudson for the
last race under the tutelage of the
greatest instructor in Craftsmanship
that American crew history has ever
known. With this years race Court
ney, "The Old Man of the Oars" will
retire from coaching and spend his
few remaining years only as an ad-
wiser to younger and more active
men.
So will end career complete with
personal successes and crowned with
the affection not only of every man
who has ever been schooled under
him, but of every Cornell graduate
with red blood enough to thrill with
delight as he recalls the long pro-
cession Of victories that Courtney's
pupils have put to the credit of the
Carnelian and White.
Courtney began his career as an
oarsman IN 1868, when In home
made canoe built with his own hands
he won, against the "city chaps" in
racing craft, the single scull race in
the regatta at Aurora. AS an ANA
tuer he rowed in lightweight races
and never was beaten. As a profess
sional he won thirty-nine and lost
seven.
His career at Cornell has been a
series of almost uninterrupted VIC
tories. Since 1900 Cornell has con.
tested in fifteen regattas on the Hud-
son. In ten of them she has finished
first, in two second and in three
third. Cornell gives credit for this
record to the man who is about to
retire. His unfagging zeal, his iron
discipline, his marvellous ability to
instruct, and his wonderful leader.
ship are not likely to be found united
in any successor they may choose
There are no more Courtneys.
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Merchant Marine

BY the re-estabiishment Of our mer-
chant marine;
ny the development Of a system Of
interstate national highway;
by making a new standard of govern
mental efficiency through a complete
civil service system. a national budget
and the destruction of "pork-barrsi' leg
islation;
BY the creation OF a permanent ex-
pert tariff commission. with a view
Of intelligently and scientifically adj
justing- the tariff so as to buld up.
rather than destroy. American industry.
The protective system Is essential to
our national prosperity. Tremendous
new pressures will be thrown upon our
Industries after the war by the highly
modified production of Europe. At all
times conditions of competition must DO
equalized between our own and foreign
countries.
We can only get the protection We
need through the use of exact and COM
plete knowledge. unaffected by preju--
dice or politics. We can secure that
knowledge at all times and when need
ed only through such a commission.
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Preparedness

We believe in preparedness for de-
Tense. but never for aggression. W.
must not sacrifice the lives of mel
for the glory or gain of military con-
quest
And we believe that the women of
the country. who share with men the
burdens of government in times of
peace and make equal sacrifice in
time of war. should be given the full
political right of suffrage either by
State or Federal action.
Arms alone cannot maintain a ma
ton. OF far greater permanent i'm
portahce must stand a national in
dustry efficient for the general well
fare. a prosperity Justly distributed.
a national life organized in all points
for national ends.
-Four years ago this party was born
of a nations awakened sense of these
fundamental truths In the platform
then adopted We set forth our posi-
ton on public questions. We here
reaffirm the declarations there made
on national issues.
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National Existence

We have set forth In this platform
plain essentials of national existence.
They are not new in principle. Most
men agree with them. Any man may
propose them, The urgent and imme-
diate need is for their performance.
We have had ample experience with
the promiser: with words and the bitter
taste of words retracted We must
choose a man who, not alone by words.
but by past deeds. gives guarantee that
he can and Will make these Things
good.
The issue Ia one OF men. In the midst
OF world changes unparalleled In his
tory. we cannot forecast the problems
which will confront our Government
during the war and at It's emo,
We, therefore, need as President a
leader who knows the nations; a man
who acts. If we continue longer to con-
tend for words as above deeds, for
fancies as above facts. we shall re-
ceive and merit the fate that surely
awaits the man or people who do not
face the truth.
We will meet and work with any man
or party who sees the nations need
and puts forward leader MT to meet
It, We will accept no less, In plain or
In the man, and We solemnly charge
upon any who place partisan politics
above country. the responsibility for a
nations future, sacrificed to Sslk-aA.
tersst and tpotis. -
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Suffrage

The Republican party. reaftlrming
its faith IN government of the people,
by the people. for the peop.e. as a
measure OF Justice to one-half the adult
people OF this country. favors the ex-
tension OF the suffrage to women. but
recognizes the right nj each State to
settle this question for itself.
Such are our principles, such are our
purposes and policies. We close as we
negan. The times are dangerous and
the future Is fraught with peril. The
great isues of the day have been con-
fused by words and phrases. The
American spirit which made the coun-
try and saved the Union has been for
gotten by those charged with the re-
sponsibility OF power. We appeal to all
Americans. whether naturalaed or ma
tive born. to prove to the world that
we are Americans In thought and In
decd. with one loyalty. one hope. one
aspiration, We call on all Americans
to he true to the spirit OF America. to
the great traditions OF their common
thu faith.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Army and Navy

Adequate provision for the common
defense has become the task OF fore
most national concern.
Beneath the structure OF military and
economic strength there must be a
unified spirit of this cosmopolitan peo-
ance to America, the land which has
welcomed us and our Immigrant fore
fathers.
Back OF any adequate national pre-
paredness in arms or in industry must
remain the democratic soul OF an un-
divided people. determined to keep
Americas great heritage and tradi-
tions unfalteringly in first place.
American problems must be faced and
solved In the light OF American ideals.
American political action must be taken
In the service OF American ends.
Unwavering patriotism and unfalter-
ing fidelity to America Is the only spirit
which should animate our citizens. II
In this melting pot of hundred ma
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CO-ORDINATiNd EFFORTS

The Government has developed a
considerable number of scientific
bureaus. They are scattered through
the various departments, and thus
their work is not co-ordinated.
There is much overlapping and
duplication on this account. Also it
is hard to get them to work together
on common effort.
This difficulty has caused trouble
before. and yesterday the advisory
committee for aeronautics found this
obstacle in the road to progress in
development Of motor construction
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Civil Service Reform

The civil service law has always
beeh sustained by the Republican
party, and we renew our repeated
declaration that It shall be thorough
tended wherever practicable. The
Democratic party has created since
March 4. 1918. 10000 offices outside
of the civil service law at an annual
OF the country.
We condemn the gross abuse and
misuse of the law by the present
Democratic Administration and pledge
ourselves to q reorganization OF this
economy.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09

and design. Therefore the FIRST step
they will take win be to try To ar
range for the cooperation of these
bureaus, through their committee.
Much is now being done for EN-
cheney in the various departments
separately. In matters Of buying
supplies the departments already are
being considered az Q unit But no
efficiency program will be completed
until the growing and valuable scien-
tific bureaus Of the Government are
brought into relation where they
can work together for any given end.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09

CHICAGO, June 9.-Fo1owing is the text of the
platform as approved by the Progressive conventions:
This Is the year Of decision for the nations future.
AS we now decide shall 60 forward in righteous
ness and power backward in degradation and weak
ness.
Of necessity, we deal now with the foundations
OF our national life. We facing elemental facts of
force of right and wrong, of extreme national peril.
The Washington times., 1916-06-09
Republican and Progressive Platforms

CHICAGO, June o.-The full text of the plat
form adopted by the Republican national convention
follows:
" In 1861 the Republican party stood for the Union.
AS It stood for the union of States, 1t stands for
united people, true to American ideals loyal to Amer
lean traditions, knowing no allegiance except to the
Constitution, to the Government and to The flag of
the United States. We believe in American policies at
home and abroad