Medford mail tribune., September 20, 1916, Page 6, Image 6

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Nation as a Whole Experiencing the
Greatest Prosperity in History
Industrial Conditions Always Have
Marked Effect on Election and
Give President Great Advantage
(BY H. N. RICKEY.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 20
(Special.) Barring a cataclysm be
twecn now and November 7, the pres
idential election will occur In the
HildHt of the greatest prosperity this
' country, or any other, has ever ex
perienced. .
Industrial conditions have always
bad a marked effect on national elec
tions, and there is no reason to be
lieve that this election will be an ex
Whatever other virtues an adminis
tration possessed they have not been
sufficient to keep it In control of the
national government, If it could not
"point with pride" to prosperity,
No Empty Dinner I 'a I In.
The empty dinnor pall of tho Amer
ican worklngman has been a complete
answer to the claims of the party In
power for another four years.
It is probable yie weakest candi
date the republicans could liavo nom
inated for presldont could have elec
ted on the full dinner pall issue, If
the country were not prosperous un
der Wilson.
There seems to bo more or less Jus
tice in the democratic contention that
as they would have been held respon
sible for Industrial stagnation, what
ever caused It, they should get full
credit for prosperity.
Tho ract.the country is prosperous
Is not disputed. Even the most big
oted republican partisan would not
attempt to arguo tho point. If he
did he would be driven to cover by a
fu'.lllade of tho most amazing figures
It has been possible to use in connec
tion with buslnoss since the world be
gan. : President's Advantage.
. Now, nobody knows better than do
tho republican campaign managers
what a strong strategic ndvantago
this gives Presldont Wilson In his
campaign for ro-eloctlon. jThoy real
ize the hopolessnesB of tho Hughes
candidacy unless ho can raise an issue
that will appeal to the voters as of
more Importance than the issue of
prosperity. And, at the same tlmo,
it Is good Hughes strategy to try to
prove that our prosperity Is In spite
of, rather than because of, Wilson
policies.
This explains Hughes' effort to
niako Wilson's foreign pollclos the
paramount campaign issue, and his
attempts to deprive tho president and
Ills party of credit for prosperity by
Insisting that It is duo entirely to the
European war.
This Is the argumont: , '
"The prosperity of the country Ik
only temporary, due to abnormal con
ditions with which President Wilson
and his party have had nothing to do.
As soon as tho war In Europe ends,
which will be In all probability dur
ing tho next four years, thoro will be
a tremendous slump In American bus.
Iness, unless republican policies are in
force to prevent It."
Contentions Not Hacked Vp.
Unfortunately for Hughes and his
party, tho facts and figures as to our
present prosperity as interpreted by
disinterested economists do not back
up their contontlon.
It Ib admitted tho Europonn war
haB Increased the foreign trade of
the United Stutes, hut this Is a small
part of the total increase In our busl
noss operations.
As Theodore Price, editor of Com
merce and Finance, Now York, an un
impeachable authority on American
ImslnosH and finance, puts It:
"It will be admitted that whntever
profit tho United Btatos has derlvod
from the war In Europe la measured
exclusively by the Incroaso in the bal
ance of trade In our favor. As our
Imports have varied but slightly since
1912, the Increase In our exports must
include everything that we have gain
ed from the expansion of our foreign
trado."
War Guln .Slight
Price goes on to show that upon
this basis of reckoning our maximum
possible gain from tho war, up to
June 30, 1916, Is 12,1.10,000,000 or
21.30 per capita. Against this, wo
find that tho national wealth has In
creased $41,000,000,000 or Hid per
capita. Price asks this pertinent
question:
"If the war in Europe has been
the only reason for our prosperity
by what alchemy has the gain of only
12,130,000, 000, from our foreign
trade been multiplied nearly 20 times
in the growth or our national
wealth "
, If Price stood aloue among econ-
' OALT. Cal., Sept. 20. Pleading
for a "dry" land on the west coast
from Mexico to the north pole, Dr.
Ira Landrlth, prohibition vice-presi
dential candidate, reopened today in
California his party's coast to coast
campaign tour. The campaigners
were In Nevada yesterday.
If California should go dry this
fall. Dr. Landrith's plea will have
been met as Washington, Oregon and
British Columbia already have adopt
ed prohibition. Landrith's arguments
today were directed particularly
against the grape growers, who, he
said, are being advertised as temper
ance gatherings.
"The upright grape grower," said
Dr. Landrlth, "will be the first to re
sent the ploa of the 'wets' that his
vineyards, shall bo saved at the ex
pense of his state's self-respect or
the morality of communities or the
happiness of thousands of drink
curned homes. iNo mere financial in
dustry, however grent, will be al
lowed to stand in the way of Calif
ornia's progress In tho prohibition
march of the western states."
Tho campaigners will be In San
Francisco tonjght for five hours. Fol
lowing their meeting there they will
continue down the state.
BATTLE RAGIN ON EAST FRONT
(Contlnuod from page one)
Russian forces resulted in tho Turku
'ompletcly iiitiintuiiiinx . their posi
tions.
Kerbs Victorious.
Ill Mucciliiniii t lie trend of the ciim-
pnigu upiirurs lo i'uvor the entente
armies. Tho Serbians are reported ill
ii continued lulvniico iilonir the west
ern end of the line, (hiving the ro-
m li ill i ir HiiIl'ii linns out of Fiorina
and cnpliiriiig the highest peak in the
Kiiimiikciiliin ranee, north of Luke
Oslrovii. Sofia, however, denies the
success claimed for the Scrbiuiis in
o Kiiiiiiiikciilun region.
decern iifrnin nniioni-s uu n nrnti.
able now factor in the military field
in the Balkans. Mm is reported to
have scut an ultimatum In (iermaiiv
demandim; the return of the (Ireck
troops taken ill Kaviila by I lie Mill
irnTiiuis and sent to fieiiiuiny for in
ternment, i
C'niliiiuriitivc iiuiel .prevails- in the
Sonnne rcciun. Paris seails news nf
a (lemiiin attack ill Hill 711, north of
the river, which the French repelled,
jocting such Ucriniuis us succeeded
ill gaining u foothold in advanced
positions. , f.
(IHKK.N HAY, Wis., Sept. 20.
The pathway of "surrender to force,"
Charles F Hughes told an audience
here today, in renewing his attack on
the administration Adamson bill,
"leads but to one end civil war."
Mr. Hughes referred to the action of
the administration us "unpardon
able." The nominee also declared that no
body could embarrass him by talking
about Americanism.
"I urn for the United States, first, i
Inst and all the time, without regard
to anyone or anything else," he said.
"i speak with added emphusis as
the friend of labor," Mr. Hughes said,
in discussing the Ailamson law.
"Wlicn I say fiat the serious blow de
livered recently at labor and enter
prise in this country was unpardon
able, that blow being the surrender
of the principle of arbitration and the
yielding of reason to force.
'We look forward in this country
to a future very uncertain unless we
have peaceful settlement of griev
unces by a careful examination and
open-minded consideration jof the
fads."
DEFENDS EIGHT-HOUR LAW
(Continued from page one
omlsts In his Interpretation, there
would not be so much slgniflciinco to
It. But so far as I can find there is
no oconomlHt of nntlonal reputation
who even attempts to Interpret the
whole, or oven tho major part, of our
prosperity In terms of the European
war.
Many of them frankly credit much
of It to tho laws enacted by congreKS
under the leadership of President
Wilson.
Chief uniong thnsn Is tho federal
reserve act, which enabled this coun
try to withstand the shock of the Eu
ropean war by giving strength and
mobility to our financial resources.
IncwiiM' in Dcosita
Millions upon millions of working-
men in tho United States are more He-
euro in their employment and are
getting better wages than over before
In their lives..
Samuel Gompcrs, president of the
Federation of Labor, says that never
before In history were so many poo
plo employed nt such high wages and
under such favorable conditions.
Bank deposits in two years have
Increased over six and one half bil
lion dollars, or about $l." per capita.
The sixteen millions odd men mid
women who are to vote for president
November 7, are among those who
nre sharing In ibis prosperity.
33 years have
taught the pro
ducers of Gol
den West cof
fee something
about the sel
ecting, blend
ing and roast
ing of coffee.
That's why
Golden West Coffee
is "Just Riant"
self wilh Mr,1 Morgan, multi-million
aire, prince of Wall street, maker und
wrecker of railroads, lord of " the
British exchequer in America.
'Is that really the issue Mr.
Hughes presents to the judgment of
the American people? For myself, 1
proclaim this achievement, consider
ed in its immediate and patent bless
ings, as one of the greatest ill the his
tory of the republic.
"Mr. Hughes, hard driven, is ap
pealing to powerful special interests.
I am sorry to behold this spectacle in
our public life. I am suru the presi
dent will not shrink from this issue,
lie has other things of vastly greater
importance to talk aboul, but he can
meet this issue without a shadow of
apprehension. . , .
, Apimil to ePopIe.
"1 would turn from Morgan, Per
kins, Koosevclt, Knot, Lodge, Pen
rose and all such as these who preach
these strange duel lines and nsk the
great musses of the peoplp whether
the president was right. Moreover,
when powerful, opulent, -sinister spe
cial interests assail the president be
cause of this fine net of Christian
statesmanship 1 would ask the work
ing men who, wilh the president, must
bear tiie liruut of these attacks for
they are aimed at tho great labor in
terests of the country what answer
they make."
DKTIiOIT, Sept. 'JO. Detroit's
chances of winning the American
league baseball pennant fuded per
ceptibly today when Boston won its
second consecutive victory of the
present series. The score was I In II.
Ilenricksen's single in Hie eighth,
scoring Scot 1 1 w on the game for Hus
ton. I'.xccpt in the second inning,
when two Huston errors helH'd De
troit lo score three runs, Leonard was
invincible.
Ms
1 S o. Moh, a for BO ots.
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l.OXDOX, Sept. 'JO. "I wish 1
could pick up my horses us u winner
with the certainty of victory for the
entente allies," said Lord Derby, the
British un'dcr--secretary of wur, on
receiving the American correspond
ents today on his return from a visit
to France, where, in company with
General Sir Douglas Haig and Gen
eral Joffre, he saw the trials of the
"tanks" beforo they were sent into
battle against the Germans, Lord
Derby continued :
' "We now have an Kuroiean army
with better guns, better rifles und
better ammunition than any other
country in the world. Hut I do not
agree with the people who expect the
war to end within six months, as it
must surely continue over the winter.
"We ure fighting the best organ
ized nation in the world, and it would
be a reflection on our own troops not
to admit that the Germans nre show
ing extraordinary bravery. Two years
ago they hud a great chance to win.
They are exceedingly strong in en
gines of destruction, but we at least
are even in this respect now, und I
cannot help feeling that our men in
dividually are better. Soon wo hope
to have u distinct margin of supcr
iority. "We nre able to continue to in
creusc the arms, munitions and food
of our troops and we will get more
men it needed, but no concrete pro
posal has been made yet to increase
the age limit."
CALDER. CARRIES
G.O.P.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. As the re
turns from upstate districts continued
to come in on the vote at yesterday's
primary election in the contest for
the republican nomination for United
Stutes senator, William M. Colder 8
lead over Robert Hucou showed a
substantial Increase. "' "'
With 008 districts juiissing out of
5711), . Calder's plurality over'-Hiieon
early this afternoon was 10,80!), the
vole being: Caljcr , 130,88'-',. Bacon
BERLIN, Sept. 20. British and
French loBaes In the battle of the
Somme have reached about GOO, 000
men the Overseas '.News agency
estimates.
- "Recent local successes obtained
by the British on the Somme are
heralded by the English press as
great victories and events, occasioned
a special message from King George
to the British commander, Sir Doug
las Halg," says the news agency. "It
is said the British occupied tho vil
lages of Fleres, Martlnpuicb and
Courcelette In the first day's fight
ing, although it had been planned to
take them In the course of four days
of battle.
Nevertheless the Brltsh were
enablbd to make this advance only
after 11 weeks of the most desperate
efforts. The result of the battle of
the Somme should be gauged by con
sidering the amount of French and
Belgian territory occupied by the Ger
mans which amounts in all to about
50,000 square kilometers. Of this,
20,000 is Belgian and 21,000 French.
The efforts made by the French and
British have resulted in the recon-
quest of' 1,500 kilometers or three
per cent. ,
"The price paid for this territory is
appalling. . According to a conserva
tive estimate the British lost 350,000
men up to September 15. This, to
gether with the French losses, brings
up the total to about halt a million
men." .
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Longer
and less flaring skirts arc indicated
for the fall fashion, says the semi
annual report of the Silk Association
of Ainericu. They will be of unklc
length, frequently nuule of pleats, und
requiring as much or:mQie materia!
than last season, is the prediction.
Puris Cushions, it is asserted,. have
not favored the cxtremelvs'fcliort, ul
inost freakish skirts which huvo been
worn here tins year! .
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NEW waists : : ;
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