SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 191 (J.
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kinds. All sound and thor
oughly seasoned, so your builder
cat; figure exactly what will be
needed and make lower figures
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necessary where our lumber is
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THE, FORUM
SAYS A PROGRESSIVE
Wilson's Deeds Reviewed by
Bull Mooser.
Orphan
La Grande, Aug. 17. (To the Edl
tor) When the famous progenitor of
the Progressive party remised, re
leased and forever quitclaimed all his
right, title and interest n and to that
party, he pinned to the foundling's
cradle a farewell note, in which he
expressed the wish that the child be
adopted by Mr. Hughes, "who is be
yond ali comparison fi'ler to be its
foster father than L Mr. Wilson."
As one of the orphan party. I have
obediently nursed the hope that Mr.
Hughes would duly qualify us our
lawful guardian. I hive read his
speeches with unbiased consideration
and great respect, i have read them
with a sincere desire to know his at
titude toward those (.olicies of social
and industrial justice which were the
dominant planks in the Progressive
platform. I have bean open to con
viction that Mr. Hughes is worthier
than Mr. Wilson to be the custodian
of the Progressive patrimony.
Thus fur, however, Mr. Hughes has
disappointed my hopeful expectations.
I fuil to find in his speeches that pas
sion for democracy in government
that distinguished the Progressive
movement. They are able nttacks and
aggressive arraignments of tha Dem
ocratic administration. But they are
cautious and reserved in their expres
sion of constructive and progressive
ideas. Suffused with stump speech
artifice and partisan appeal, they sug
gest the politician rather than the
statesman.
Mr. Hughes has said little so far
to encourage the independent voter
and less to rebuke the sordid stand
patter. The war horses of the Old
Guard arch their necks and step
proudly to their music. Any one of
the capable chief captains of the re
actionary regime might have spoken
them and still be true to caste.
In Ms discussion of the high protec
tive tariff we hear again the muffled
creaking of the Aldrich party ma
chine. If Mr. Hughes is elected, he
will doubtless be called upon during
his term to deal with the changed
conditions arising from the restora
tion of peace in Europe. We will
have a "ruinous foreign competition"
scare. Once more, as many a time
and oft in the past, the "infant indus
tries" will need protection against the
pauper labor of Europe. Encouraged
by Mr. Hughes's high tariff sympa
thies, the Old Guard will have a
golden opportunity to restore to the
special interests the princely patri
mony of a highwayman tariff.
His pronouncements on prepared
ness and Americanism lack the Roose
velt ring and intensity of conviction,
and trail off into vague generalities
when he considers the possibilities of
the foreign vote. So far Mr. Hughes
has not spoken a single sharp sylla
ble in rebuke of the subterranean
schemes of a foreign power to con
trol the political affairs of the United
States.
On domestic and economic issues,
aside from the tariff, Mr. Hughes's
utterances have been as nebulous as
dim puffs of star dust lost in the haze
of the Milky Way. As to Mr. Wil
son's legislative record the most
constructive and progressive program
enacted since the Civil 'WarMr.
Hughes is strangely silent. His guns
are all long range guns, and scarcely
a shell has fallen this side of Europe
or Mexico. Mr. Wilson's diplomatic
record is Mr. Hughes's Verdun.
Naturally these attacks are highly
captious and critical, but they throw
no light on Mr. Hughes's own capacity
as a constructive statesman. He is
notably reticent concerning the pro
gram he himself would follow.
From his speeches so fur, we gather
mainly that Mr. Wilson has shamed
us before the world, that he is one of
the weakest presidents we have ever
had. This is putting it strong, to say
the least, for one doesn't have to rise
any higher in the scale of animal in
telligence than that possessed by a
college freshman to know that we
have had some very distinguished dis
appointments in the White House
one in particular not more remote
than the reign of Big Built Aft.
In his scathing strictures on Mr.
Wilson's dealings with Germany and
Mexico. Mr. Hughes leaves us to in
fer that if he had been president, Bel
gium would not have been invaded,
the Lusitania would not have been
sunk, and Mexi'jo, summarily
squelched and subdued, would now
be a domestic decorum. 'But how he
would have avoided the mistakes he
attributes to Wilson, he leaves us also
to conjecture.
Would Mr. Hughes repudiate Wil
son's policy ofneutrality? Would he
join the Allies or the Central Powers?
Would he demand instant and specific
disavowal from Germany of the Lusi
tania sinking? Would he threaten
war on Great Britain for interference
with our shipping and seizure of
United States mail?
Mr. Hughes hastens to assure us
that he is not a Roosevelt fire-eater,
that there is not a drop of militarism
in his political veins. But how he
could have brought Germany up
standing uermany that did not hes
itate a moment to defy the combined
military power of England, France
and Russia; how he would have con
verted that nest of viper's eggs in
Mexico into a perfectly palatable
omelet; how he would have ac
complished all this without a resort to
cannon and corpses, would require the
services and the entire Pinkerton de
tective agency to determine. He is
precise and definite only as to what
we had a right to expect of Mr. Wil
son.
I Under Mr. Wilson we haveavoided
Mmr with Cprmnnv nnA wnn tin anrvh.
! making diplomatic victor'. Germany
has stopped her submarine warfare
! on merchant-shipping soielv on ac -
! count of the president insistence on
I international law. Could we have ex-
nectid more under Mr. HutrhpR?
j Under Mr. Wilson we have thus far
been able to successfully apply the
principles of justice and Big Brother
hood to cur distracted sister republic
on the south, it has been u dimcult
and delicate task, and naturally has
not been accomplished without some
friction and bad feeling. But we are
now in a fair way of assisting Mexico
to realise nerseli. No doubt Mr. Wil
son has made mistakos in his deal
ings with Mexico. Could we reason
ably expect that Mr. Hughes would
nave made none!
Nothing is politically right which
is morally wrong. To have raped a
helpless sister republic: to have
crushed her beneath the iron heel of
military despotism, might have been
good politics, but it would have been
a moral crime. A politician, with his
eye on the next election, would have
applied coercion to Mexico. Wood
row Wilson, with his eye on the next
generation, dared to apply the golden
rule. And the nsxt generation will
justify Wilson no leas surely than it
will condem Germany for its invasion
of 'Belgium.
As an American citizen I am proud
of Mr. Hughes. I am proud of the
inspiring spectacle cf his unques
tioned courage and moral integrity.
But his integrity is not more inflex
ible than is Mr. Wilscn's. His ideuls
of public service are not superior to
those of Mr. (Wilson. His record as
private citizen and public servant iB
duplicated by that of Mr. Wilson.
The weight of Mr. Hughes's fame
rests upon his investigation of the in
surance scandals. He fought for hon
esty in the insurance business and
won a signal victory. But he said
nothing about the corrupt relation ex
isting between the great insurance re
serves and the money trust. He suid
nothing about how these great re
serves might be made to better the
old age conditions of the poor. He did
nothing to destroy the underlying sys
tem which made these insurance evils
possible.
Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, has
fought the system of special inter
ests wherever it has shown its Cobra
head. He found the system in
trenched at Princeton University, and
gave it no quarter. As governor of
Jersey -he again discovered it, defied
it, ana wrote its death warrant into
the statutes of that state. With
drawn sword he followed its slimy
trail into the legislative halls of the
nation.
Through his legislative enactments,
he has curbed the predatory inter
ests, reformed the currency, taken
the financial power out of the hands
of the Wall Street oligarchy, and put
it into the hands of the people where
it belongs. Through the Clayton law,
he has made labor respected as Lin
coln said it should do; has raised it
from the status of a mere commodity
and given it human rights superior to
the pitiless law of supply and de
mand. Through the income tax law,
the "malefactors of great wealth" are
no longer exempt from their just
share of the burdens of taxation; they
are distributed upon the shoulders
best able to bear them. Under him
the robber baron tariff has passed
from the realm of special legislation
into the fairest measure that the
brains of impaitiul tariff experts can
devise.
I am not a Democrat. I did not
vote for Mr. Wilson. - Neither am I
a Bourbon Republican. - I did not vote
for Taft. I have little interest in the
success of parties, but a very great
interest in the success of democracy.
I believe in the consolidation of all in
dependent voters, and the consolida
tion of all Bourbon voters. And 1 be
lieve in surrounding the Bourbons
with all the comfort! of Sing Sing. I
humbly suggest the permanent retire
ment of Special Privilege; I may
never have the pleasure of attending
its funeral but I thoroughly approve
of it.
As a Progressive, I am profoundly
grateful for Woodrow Wilson. With
intelligence, independence, sympathy,
poise, patience, and an inflexible in
tegrity of purpose, he has wrought to
exterminate special privilege and en
hance the general bettcimcnt of man
kind. And the general welfare of the
people, as Alexander Hamilton re
marks, "ought to be the leading ob
ject of every party and the aim of
evsry individual according to the
measure of his power." If Mr.
Hughes is elected president of the
United States I shall humblv advocate
a life position for Woodrow Wilson
as the President Emeritus of Hu
manity.
For the foregoing lessons I still
ponder the question: Why should a
Progressive vote for Hughes in pref
erence to Wilson?
, ANDREW R. MARKER.
Red Tape in France.
Paris, Aug. 18. French red tape
reached its highest efficiency when a
Portuguese man contributed 6,000
francs to the fund for war munitions
received a statement for 25 francs
receipt taxes which the state requires
on all moneys they receive.
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FRANKLIN K. LANE
. Secretary of Ih4 Interior
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" Yellowstone National Park is ideal for camping out
When people realize this it should quickly become the
most lived in of all our national parks. Remember that
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