•, I CUMMINS URGES aess in dr-alinpr with /our foreign relations •Bl have so angered the people of line the country that it has become not UNITY OF PARTY FIRST ARH8AL BARGAIN PERIOD only the imperative duty but the deepest desire of all good citizens to drive it out of power, and "reinstate as 's v. speedily as the laws of the land will permit, 'a-government that will restore 'Today's £ltr £uluth Nruis £rtbutt NAVAL AUXILIARIES. the confidence and rekindle the "Read Says It Is Duty of Republicans to Paper" Reread" pride which every patriot ought to feel in the strength and justice of his End Wilson Regime. By United States Senator John W. Weeks From January 31st to March 1st 1013. Dation. The one paramount duty be-' fore us is the retirement of Woodrow (Graduate of Annapolis). Wilson and his followers in the house and senate. When we win, as we will, There is universal agreement that some action lOWAN'S LINCOLN DAY SPEECH The Daily and Sunday News Tribune to some of us may not get all we want $4.80 should be taken by Congress which will build up our but we are bound to get something merchant marine engaged in foreign trade, so that MARCH 1st, 1917 for (By Mail Only) better than we have now, for the there may be suitable ships in operation which can mind cannot conceive anything worse. be drawn upon by the navy in time of need. Furthermore, we need men for our naval reserve. During The president and congress began Points Out Mistakes of Present Dem­ The Daily Only News Tribune to the Spanish-American war, we had the greatest difficulty $3.00 their assault upon our institutions by in shipping able seamen—only about 1,500 being ocratic Administration in Ad­ MARCH 1st, 1917 for the enactment of a tariff law, which (By Mail Only). 1 obtained during the war—and the purchase of ships taking it all together is the completest dress at St. Paul. at that time, made necessary by our not having auxiliaries compound of ignorance and indifference for the navy, Indicated that if they had been ever composed by a legislative sold at the end of the war, there would have been a body. It neither gives protection Send Postal Card for free Sample loss of about fifty per cent, on their purchase price. fit Paul, Feb. 13.—Senator A. B. to our home markets nor yields revenue The ships were purchased because it was impossible Cummins of Iowa was the principal and Descriptive Booklet. for the maintenance of the government. to charter them, as is done by England and speaker at the Lincoln Republican other countries having a well-developed merchant It defies every principle of dlub banquet here last night. He said, ADDRESS: marine. economics ever advanced by the principles in part: Therefore, from the standpoint of the navy—a standpoint which should of any school of scientific CIRCULATION DEPT. not be neglected—there is every reason for giving encouragement to the Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen of 1 thought. Had it not been for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and to the increase of that part of our the Lincoln Republican Club: Of all hideous war which has paralyzed the population engaged in sea-faring life, so that we may develop a naval reserve tye gulutlj £fctois (Eritimttfe the millions who have been born, who industries of Europe, it would have which will enable us to lay up a large part of our fighting ships when we put this country into bankruptcy, have lived, and who have died in are at peace. The navy is more in need than the army. We have net enough DULUTH, MINN. with no prospect of a dividend to America, there have been but two men to man the ships by about 20,000. Our navy has always been a lop-sided creditors. affair because we have appropriated one year for ships, the next year for whose .achievements have so woven men, the next for submarines, and the next for something else. What we Tariff Hostile to Farmers. themselves into the ^fabric of the nation should is to take the battleship for the unit, and every time we build one we that their birthdays are commemorated This tariff law has no redeeming should build a torpedo boat destroyer and should supply the men to man feature except the income tax, and by all the people. those auxiliaries that go with the fleet. We need auxiliaries more than anything that I may say in passing was of Republican else. One of these days the American people are going to insist on a It is indeed true that no country origin, but its crowning folly definite, business-like plan which will restore the American flag to the high on earth is so rich in the words seas. and unspeakable Injustice lie in the WWW and deeds of great, strong-hearted, If my contentions are sound: 1. We need a merchant marine for mercantile palpable and indefensible discrimination high-minded men as our own, and and naval purposes. 2. We should repeal any legislation, like portions against the farmers of the country. we remember all of them with undying of the Seamen's bill, which militates against this development.* 3. We should It gives the manufacturers of follow the practice of all other nations, which has resulted in the development gratitude and increasing affection the East some protection, inadequate of shipping by giving sufficient aid to overcome the difference in costs which but by common consent these it is true, and therefore ineffective stands as a handicap to our shipping. 4. Such aid should apply enly in cases two commanding figures tower above but it remorselessly exposes the agricultural where the operation cannot be conducted profitably, on 1 should continue only ARTER'S producers in the great West all the rest, and the days which gave so long as that condition prevails, such aid to be based upon the service performed to the unrestrained invasion of the them to the world are universally set either in carrying mails cr in furnishing ships for auxiliary ^rpo^es. whole world. It must be swept away, 5. As the navy needs auxiliaries even more thin any other l'ac:lity, any ONVENIENCES apart, crowned with especial honor measures taken to increase its efficiency should give first consideration to and and in its stead there must be substituted be influenced by the development of a merchant marine. a fair, reasonable and adequate tariff for the protection of HOME, American industries, a tariff which For the will enable home producers to hold ministration in th*se respects, but it hands upon anything. It Its Is a SCHOOL, their own markets in decent prosperity is impossible to conceal from ourselves despondent, aimless, si. ~ss wanderer against all corner^. The Democrats the obvious fact that we have in the wilderness seated by its or OFFICE. themselves are beginning to see lost some of the prestige and distinction own inqpmpetency. It is not big the hopelessness of their law and are which in former days illujminated enough for the job and what will twisting and turning in every direction the American nanus. happen to us during the next year to avoid some of the disastrous Question of Preparedness. mortal man cannot predict. results which are so obvious that they If I were to leave this meeting without We are all profoundly grateful that cannot be longer hidden. For instance, considering our relations with we are not in war but some of us are the ways and means committee foreign powers and .without expressing skeptical about the credit which one of the house is about to recommend man claims for the peace which now my own views upon the subject a full and sufficient duty on prevails. The stability of the president which we have come to know as "preparedness," dyestuffs. Why? Simply because we the things uppermost in and his administration is not forfeited need them, and we cannot get them Iny mind, and yours as well I have no when we remember that a year from abroad, and our capital will not ago he set his face firmly against doubt, would remain unsaid. The subiect invest in the business unless assured any increase in our military strength, presents itself in two aspects. of protection against foreign rivals and impliedly opposed even the main- Our course toward Mexico, and our when the war comes to an end. relation to the belligerents of Europe. tenance of the naval program of the Spreader Tube Again, the energetic but elusive secretary last few years, whereas when con- Mexican Policy Shameful. of commerce is insisting that Photolibrary Paste ,., gress assembled last December he XT we must enact an anti-dumping provision. No real, red-blooded American will 6 ... recommended with great earnestness a provision which recognizes ever turn to the page which records an immediate addition to both army the conduct of this administration toward the necessity of protective duties, but SENATOR CUMMINS. and and recently toured the navy which our Democratic friends hope Mexico without blushing for country in advocacy of his program. Carter's iray be so obscured that the people shame and burning with indignation. n6t in a community here and there It is not enough, however, to question Regulation generally will not perceive the admission It is hard for me to speak of the subject not by an organization in one locality the views of the chief executive, of past folly which it clearly implies. in terms of respect. I do not, of or another not by societies with defined Bottle his cabinet or his congress, or doubt course, charge the president and his purposes but in every community, the competency of the administration Mucilage advisers with conscious wrongdoing, every organization, every society, Why a Tariff Commission? to deal with the vital problems which but weakness and vacillation are and by every true man and Again, the president and his leaders the unparalleled calamity in Europe sometimes more than the equivalent Woman in the land. Your lips have in congress are now proposing the has created. I realize that, in the of intentional wrong, and from this already named them—George Washington establishment of a tariff commission. present circumstances the Republicans accusation the president cannot escape. and Abraham Lincoln. Why? For this reason and no other of Minnesota have a right to know It is not my purpose this evening to they are praying that through the my views respecting the course which speak upon the life, character or work In the past three years American work of such a commission some of the United States ought to pursue under citizens who had a right to be in Of Abraham Lincoln. I have listened the disasters which their tariff law the unusual conditions which now to many tributes rendered to his genius, Mexico have been robbed, shot, hung necessarily inflicts may be avoided confront us. fidelity and virtue some divinely and starved at the pleasure of the so 'without a frank avowal that they have To me the course is plain before eloquent, some marvelously analytic called armies roving about the country imposed upon the country a policy so us, we ought to go quietly, firmly forward C&l but none of them have filled my and never a thing done save a destructive that they dare not meet strengthening and balancing the instinctive measure of the man. protest, now and then, to an irresponsible, its logical outcome. The tariff commission military arm of the government according Americans who love their country cruel and lawless leader. Photolibrary has been for years a Republican to the program universally And who know this things he said and Our government has not only failed proposal, desirable because we Paste in accepted. We ought to do it with no did and who remember the solemn in its duty toward our own people who w^nt to know, from time to time, the blare of trumpets, no challenge to other scenes through which he moved, can are in Mexico, but it has witnessed Bottles difference between the cost of production nations. Before any radical change feel what Lincoln was infinitely better the most atrocious outrages against at home and. abroad. We Is made in the policy we ought to than the most accomplished orator Mexican men and women the world want a tariff commission in order to know the outcome of the war. It may can describe. has ever known, without a decisive fix duties that will protect our home happen that conditions will arise that word or a courageous act. markets against unfair competition, Divided House Cannot Stand. will compel us to stand, armed ready At the present moment the situation but why does a believer in the ruinous Inasmuch as I am speaking to Republicans for instant conflict, not against one doctrine of free trade or tariff in Mexico is .absolutely hopeless. just entering upon an important nation alone but against a combination for revenue only want a commission? There was a time when in my judgment, campaign for political supremacy of nations one the other hand, intervention might have been It is not possible within the time Republicans who are now it may happen that the war will so which I may properly consume to review avoided, but now the horrors of in-, viewing with sadness and regret, the close that the partial disarmament of discriminate murder and the savage all the flagrant mistakes record humiliations and disaster inflicted in the great countries will begin and that lust for blood and rape and all other ed in the history of this administra three years of Democratic administration, a long era of international peace will tion. It has simply been one blunder crimes against humanity, have broken and who are profoundly convinced be assured. after another, repeated with such unvarying the civilized spirit of the people. They that the American people deserve regularity that the people have not the strength needed to construct something better, I must be permitted a government. They are starving, have come to expect nothing else. to redall one sentence which not by the thousands, but by the The law revising our banking system, fell from Lincoln's lips at the very while it has some good in it, tens of thousands and I predict that Outset of the struggle of 1858. He unless we are willing to stand by and Carter's which Republicans rather than Democrats was referring to a situation in the see that country lapse into barbarism, put there, is, as a whole, a most country at large, but it may1 well be Handy Glue Pencil and to see it ravaged day after day dangerous experiment. It has not invoked as the watchword for the Republican by 'the cutthroats and plunderers who only made powerful combinations party in the months immediately among banks lawful, but it has created are now in possession, we will be compelled before us. He said, as you will to intervene simply to furnish a board clothed with more authority remember: "A house divided against a nucleus around which the remnant than was ever before conferred itself cannot stand I do of liberty and decency can gather. l»pon an administrative body. not expect the house to fall, but I do There may be some other -way in expect it will cease to be divided." fAgain, it proposed a shipping law which we can be helpful, but I am unable which was founded upon an acknowledged The house of Republicanism, founded to perceive it. upon the truest principles ever want of the people^ but it coupled I turn to our troubles with the belligerents espoused by the human kind and the plain duty of the government pf Europe,, strange as it may reared by the labor of the wisest and in this respect to a plan of partnership appear, With a profound relief. I believe most unselfish patriots of modern in a private corporation which, the! president was wise and pa-1 time, must not fall but to stand, it had it been carried out, would have PGPULAMECHANICS triotic in his proclamation of neutrality. trlust not be divided against itself associated the government with the Sacred as the compact of nations and it has become our highest and pirates of ocean traffic'inVan attempfy "AiAGAZINR ought to be, and sympatheic as all most imperative duty to see that it is not to relieve the peojple, but to make 300 ARTICLES-300 ILLUSTRATION right-minded men are with stricken not divided, and that it shall endure profit out of them. pTEEP informed of the World's Progress in Belgium, 'our-country would not have for the glory of free institutions and It'is a unique administration in that Engineering, Mechanics and Invention. 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