The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-10-21
"C0IN" HARVEY
FOR HUGHES

5 "C0IN" HARVEY
FOR HUGHES
z Col. George Harvey. who more tina
Z any other individual, helped max
Z Woodrow Wilson President of th
I United States, now urges every pa
triotic American to vote for Charlie
E. Hughes. In the forthcoming issu
of the North American Review, @
which Colonel Harvey is editor, h
reviews the record of the Wilson ad
ministration and says the two vita
questions to be answered at the poll
are, which of the two great partie,
at this particular juncture is the bet
ter equipped and the more likely t.
render the highest public service, ant
which of the two designated leader.
is the more certain to preserve, pro.
tect and defend the constitution o.
the United States.
The o~verpowering issues are mill
tary and industrial preparedness
government by and for the people,
national honor and opportunity.
Regarding military and industrial
preparedness, Colonel Harvey con-
cludes that the country cannot ex-
pect adequate preparedness in the
navy while Mr.. Daniels remains at its
head. He says Mr.. Daniels has nei-
Their the skill nor the will to expend
effectively the great sums of money
to be drawn from the people by their
express command for immediate pro-
lection. II he is retained in authority
for another four years the first line
of defense, already gravely impaired,
will be shattered and the navy itself
from the highest admiral to the hum
blest sailor will raise hands to high
heaven in disgust and despair.
The new secretary of war is placed
by Colonel Harvey on a higher plane
than Secretary Daniels, but, he says,
the scheme of federalizing the mill
tia has already proved abortive, and
If anything were needed to affix the
finality of failure it appears in the
laundering of the war departments
call to arms, which convinced every
guardsman sent to the border that he.
had been tricked into an enlistment
which he had never intended to make.
Tne question now is a question of the
utilization OF the resources in hand
OF the greatest advantage of the eoun-
try, In obtaining the quickest and
most effectual results by the Repub-
licans, who are sincere in their advo-
cacy of preparedness, or the Demo-
Gratis, who are not.
Colonel Harvey calls attention to
the plans being formulated by the
world powers for mutual trade in
crease at the close of the war and the
capture of the markets of the world.
and adds what they may mean to
American manufacturers, working
men and farmers is patent. The press
ing question is, which or the two par
ties is the better equipped to meet
the situation? The Democrats, tacit-
ly, through the creation of a tariff
commission, have conceded the need
OF protective measures, but they have
only pecked at the problem for DO
lltlcal purposes without attempting
in any serious way to effect a solu-
ton.
On the other hand, Mr.. Hughes is
really convincing In his insistence
that the only way to meet the situa-
ton is with protection, and Colonel
Harvey is driven to the conclusion
that true industrial preparedness, in
common with true military prepared
ness, can be attained only through its
sincere advocates and consistent
friends. the Republicans.
Reviewing the action of President
Wilson in regard to the wage in
crease legislation, Colonel Harvey
says that since Fort Sumpter was
fired upon there has been no such as
sault upon the right of the American
people to rule themselves as that
which took place at Washington in
August. The President. by forcing
legislation granting an increase of
wages, and proposing that the in
crease should be paid through an in
crease in freight rates. which, of
course. the public would pay, deliber-
ately proposed the, mulcting of the
great body of his own constituency,
the millions of low-paid workingmen.
farmers. professional men, teachers,
clerks. saleswomen and toilers in
sweatshops no less than the well-to-
do in the interests not even of a class.
but of a class within a class eompris-
ing 400. 900 voters.
THE public" sententiously re-
marked President Garretson OF the
railroad conductors, lis the carcass
and we all. perhaps. are the vul-
lures" and Woodrow Wilson, Presi-
dent of the United States, by his act,
Endorsed the cynical assertion.
Colonel Harvey says that Mr..
Hughes. had he been President and
had he been confronted by the bro