The Coconino sun., 1916-10-27

The difference is that l was wise before the event, and they after the event. They are now acting too late to have any effect upon our standing during the present war, or at the pe- riod of settlement immediately 1ol- lowing its conclusion. If the course l advocated in 1908 had been follow ed and our foreign affairs had been handled as they were then being handled, there would never have been an American life taken by any re- prsentative of the governments of either Mexico or Germany; and there would never have been the appalling carnival of violations of international law that we have seen during the past two years and quarter. We cannot undo the mischief that has been done during these three years; but if President Wilson is reelected, We can make certain that this mis- chief will be repeated and perpetual ed. We must elect Mir. Hughes as president, and we must in good faith take a policy the direct reverse of the present policy of feeble vacillation and empty elocution. Let us provide for great navy, the second in size in the world; and let usvprovide for a regular army of a quarter of a mil lion men, short service men, so that we can have one hundred and fifty thousand men who can be concentrat- ed at once on the Mexican frontier, or on either coast, if there is serious trouble, And let us begin patiently and farsightedly to inaugurate in this country the system which treats the performance of the duties of citizen ship as a necessary complement to enjoyment of the rights of citizen ship. Let us provide for universal obligatory military training of all our young men in time of peace, and for the recognition of the principle that in time of war every man and every woman in the country is bound to render service wherever it is deemed that he or she can render it best.
 l ask you to test the character and courage of MT. Hughes and Mir. Will son by comparing their attitudes as regards the demands of the railway Brotherhoods, which eliminated re- gently in the miscalled eight-hour legislation at Washington.
 During the last eighteen years, covering the period when I was Gov ernor and President, I have hitherto on every important issue supported the Brotherhoods. am very proud of the fact that am an honorary mem Der of one of the Brotherhoods. l have publicly stated that during the ten years when held high public office, found myself, on the whole in closer agreement with the Brother hoods than with any similar organ ized body, whether of business men professional men, or labor men; with the possible exception of the members of the surgical and medical profes. sion, in so far as they can be said to be organized. But it is the duty of every good American, and especially every good public servant, in each question that arises touching the re. lations of labor and capital to judge that particular question squarely or it's merit. l equally abhor both the White Teror and the Red Terro, ant I will stand as stoutly against one as against the other. We have seen ir this county few things more discred
 itable to our representatives ant more ominous for the future of tho nation than the spectacle of the Pre- sident and Congress of the United States being required to pass a cer
 tain bill before a certain hour at tho dictation of certain men who sat 1T the gallery with their watches in theil hands threatening ruin and disaster to the nation if there was the smallest failure to satisfy their demands.
 As President I dealt at various times with both corporations ant labor unions. In every case according to the best of my ability stood 1T favor of the corporation or union that was doing right, and against the cor poration or union that was doing wrong. For example, I stood against the Western Federation of Miners al one time just as l stood against thu
 richest and most powerful corpora tions of Wall Street at other times am therefore not asking any public
 servant to take a stand which l my
 self did not take when was in public office. In particular I ask you to re
 member the Anthracite Coal Strike because the menace that strike con 1 tained was even greater than thu
 menace of a general tie-up of thu transportation systems of the coun