The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-31
HUGHES TALKS ON
TARIFF IN OHIO
Candidate Bitterly Attacks
Wilson Policies in Indus
trial Cities of State

Columbus, o., October 3O-Charles e.
Hughes tonight replied to President Will
sons speech at Shadow Lawn last Sat
urday. He referred to Tne occasion as "a
little festival of self-gIorification among
our opponents in which they celebrated
the birth of freedom and described them
selves as the generous forces of the age
and world"
| THE eulogy needed one further touch,''
Mr. Hughes declared, land that was to
| celebrate the policy that led to the
| slaughter at Vera Cruz and Carrizal'
The Underwood and Adamson bills were
characterized as being in the whimsical
domain of topsy-turvydom" and may be
! hailed as the guardians of American en-
terprise and American labor"
Business was placed, as it was claimed
on different footing said Mr.. Hughes
"And it is very slippery footing"
he added.
Mr.. Hughes declared his opponents were
"a little out of their reckoning in claim
ing that business had been relieved of
a nervous fear of the courts, and that
what business really feared was vague
legislation" "two-faced laws govern
ment by holdup'' and IAN administration
which treats business men as suspicious
characters"
Thousands of persons who could not
gain admission to the hall We're addressed
i'll overflow meetings by other speakers.
A crowd which witnessed torchlight
parade packed the greater portion of
Capitol square, opposite the hotel where
Mr.. Hughes was staying. The nominee
reviewed the parade for an hour and a
half and left it still passing. Scores of
bands participated. For four blocks be-
tween the hotel and the hall the crowd
was so dense that Mr.. Hughes car had
to creep at snails pace.
Mr.. Hughes made the tariff his chief
theme tonight.
Columbus, o.. October 3-Charles E
Hughes went through industrial cities
of Ohio today, making the protective
tariff his chief theme of discussion
Before audiences at East Liverpool,
Wellsville. Steubenville. Mingo June
ton, Dennison. GAINESVILLE and here to-
night the nominee declared that Amer
lea was not prepared TO meet the COM
mercial competition of an energized
Europe after the war and that Amer
lean industry would suffer liz those
days were it not protected.
Mr.. Hughes was received by au-
diences which cheered him.
In his East Liverpool speech Mr.
Hughes touched upon statements in
President Wilson's Cincinnati address
The nominee also cited recent
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ley of the federal trade commission
that America is not prepared to meet
the competition of European nations
after the war.
1t is not time for men to go through
the country saying America is ready"
he said. t1t is not ready. America has
got it's Underwood bill and it has
no disposition to change it. They
have got their doctrine 30 which they
adhered for generations. They say: We
will give you a tariff commission. 1
believe in a tariff commission We
want the facts. but they talk about
the tariff commission as though it
were legislative body.
IF you want protection to American
industry you have to have majority
in Congress that believes in protec-
ton to American industry"
In his GAINESVILLE speech Mr. Hughes
declared that the number of men
killed and permanently disabled in the
war was less than the average In
crease of the industrial population as
young men become of industrial age"
There are some people who seem
to think that If you are going to build
house you can have windows and
doors and various things pertaining to
the upper stories and get along with
out any foundation at all.
'And the foundation in American
life is chance to work the founda-
ton in American life is chance to
have plants that are busy: the founda
ton in American life is to get behind
American enthusiasm and make it
hum, so long as it is honest and
straight and fair
THAT is what l stand for"