The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-11
Phone 262 Phone
DEEDS AND WORDS.

Every speech that Mir Hughes makes is a new argument for the l, election of President Wilson
 In Chicago Mr Hughes declared tat If anything in this campaign is real 1t is that We are now fac ing the question whether We want words or whether We want deeds While Mir Hughes was giving voice to this sentiment the telegraph wires were carrying the news that through the leadership O. President Wilson the senate had pas. ed the Child Labor bill and mat the house conferees would accept the senate Navy Bill
 4 Mir Hughes is coNcerned about deeds. we refer him to the record of the Wilson administration. rec ord of achievement in progressive legislation for which there is ne parallel
 We refer him to the Federal Re serve Banking law We refer hirn 10 the Rural Credits law. We re fer him to the Trade Commission law We refer him to the repeal of the Panama Canal Tolls act that had repudiated the solemn obliga. tion7 of treaty We refer him to the Clayton law. declaring that la
 
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 MT Hughes was governor of New York longer than MT. Wilson has been President of the United States. What was done under his admins tration that compares in point of statesmanship and public service with even the least of these achieve melts under the Wilson admins tration?
 Mr Hughes sheer about words and deeds may have been directed at the foreign policies of President Wilson rather than al the domestic policies Very we'll President Viii sons words have kept the United States out of war without the sur render of a single American right Where would MT, Hughes deeds" have placed us? Diplomacy has only two weapons, words and deeds. Words mean negotiation. Deeds mean war. If MT. Hughes reproach of the President has any signifi- canoe except campaign nagging, 1t is that President Wilson refused to plunge the country into war be- fore eXhausting all the resources of diplomacy, and that consequently we are in the miserable and unfor- tunate condition of being at peace when American boys might be dy ing by the thousand every day in the trenches. Is that what Mir. Hughes wants?
 Every time MT Hughes speaks fe emphasizes the painful fact that he has no legitimate issue and no constructive policies of his own His whole campaign is directed not to building himself up, but to tearing the President down,
 There is no appeal to public req son or public intelligence in MT. Hughes campaign addresses. No citizen is wiser or better informed or more sanely advised in his pub lie duties because of anything that Mir. Hughes has said since his nomi- nation.
 The Hughes speeches are only an invocation to blind. bigoted part- sanship and are the common place product of a commonplace Republican mind
 THE GLAD HAND