Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-06

chicago, oct. Ex-senator BeVer1dge
gave stirring address here tonight
in support Of the Hughes candidacy.
He said, in part:
Credit to Republicans.
"The administration boasts of con.
structive laws Where did they come
from? Who originated the Currency
Law? A Republican. Who was the
author of the National Child Labor
Law? A Progressive and Republican.
Who proposed and framed the Tariff
Commission Law? The same man
who originated national Child Labor
legislation. VINO advanced the idea
Of National Trade Commission? An
American business mana
Progressive and Republican.
"And during all the long years of
fighting for these reforms Mr.. VIII.
son and his party frowned upon and
them. Only when the fight
was finished and public opinion so
firmly behind these progressive meas.
ures that the forces of reaction and
localism dared oppose them no longer,
did MIR. Wilson change his mind and
force a reluctant and grumbling party
to half-heartedly support them. And
this was done at the twelfth hour
under the compulsion Of terror OF the
election. How will laws,
so originated and so enacted, be exc.
cuted by power thus belated and
unfriendly?
No Man Equal to Task,
mo one man is equal to that task.
No individual or group in Mexico can
perform it unless another Diaz should
spring from that blood.soaked soil
If such an iron dictator should again
appear could he give liberty and per.
manent peace in Mexico? Recent
events answer that question. The
of Mexico requires the
steady power Of whole nation
schooled in the great truth that or
der is the first condition Of permanent
liberty. 1t needs the force and pre-.
cision of the government of q people
wise, calm, and unafraid of being the
chosen instrument Of destiny. That
the inevitable in Mexico has become
the immediate is the result of the ad.
mishandling of a plain
situation. Now we must free Mexico
from the bondage of anarchy and
from that duty we must not finch.
"Watchful Waitinq." -
"There we're only two sane courses
to take in Mexico-to 60 in and re.
store order to the anarch-maddened
creatures of that country or to keep
out and leave them to their mutual
destruction. But the administration
did both and neither. If to safeguard
American lives is a duty, then the
fled from that duty. II
to protect American property is an
the administration repudi.
ated it. 1t allowed powder and guns
and all the implements of warfare to
pour across the borders, then closed
The embargo on arms, then raised it
again, and closed and raised it once
more.
every American citizen and every
American soldier that has been shot
20 death was killed with an American
bullet fired from an American rifle.
Murder, arson, lust, rapine, desola.
lion, are the fruits that have ripened
Under the policy of watchful waiting.
VIE have not respected Mexican rights
and yet we have not safeguarded Am.
erican rights. And the administra-
ion that permitted this condition to
develop and that is largely RESPONSE.
ole for it, tells US that it will not lift
1 finger to change it. Yet we hear
lncious platitudes about guiding man.
kind Alright and laying upon unruly
nations the restraining hand Of SUI
oerior brotherhood. If we turn our
packs upon the practical duty at our
loors, how can we realize impracti.
cable idealism in distant lands?
what answer does the partisan of
he administration make to this long
'ecord of national humiliation abroad
md national abasement at home?
"WiIson Kept Us Out Of War;"
Nothing but this campaign catch.
word: The administration has kept
Us out of war
with whom?
"If We had been in danger Of war
during the last three years and the
administration had with honor saved
Is fro nthat tragedy, that great fact
Tould have gone far to atone fer the
general malpractice Of statesman
ship from which the nation has suf
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